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HE great Summer Show of the Royal Horticultural Society falls 
unusually early on this occasion, in fact it has been pushed into June 
so far as the opening day is concerned, which is surely a little too early for 
a Summer Show, and very inconvenient for our report, which must for the 
most part stand over for the next issue. We do not know all the 
determining causes for such a date, but would suggest that for most 
purposes a fortnight later would have served equally well, and would have 
been much nearer to the date originally fixed for this event. Of course 
Orchids are only one out of a large number of classes, and may always be 
trusted to put in an appearance’in quantity, but we hope the Show will not 
be pushed further back until it becomes a June function. 
We do not know how long it is considered that a Show of this kind 
ought to last, but the Secretary states that at the Chelsea Show the Council 
was told that a wish had been freely expressed that in future the Show 
should last five days instead of three. They therefore submitted the 
Proposal to the exhibitors, but only twenty out of 114 replies received were 
in favour of the proposal, and consequently it has been decided to let well 
alone, and to make no change. ‘‘ The Council fully recognise that many 
of the Fellows and vast numbers of the public would like an extension of 
days, but in this matter they have considered it their duty to have respect 
chiefly to the owners and exhibitors of the plants, hence their decision to 
make no change at present. For if the conditions of a Show are made too 
burdensome and expensive to the owners of valuable plants, they will cease 
to respond to the request to exhibit their treasures, and the Show would 
Stadually deteriorate in quality even if quantity were maintained by 
admitting inferior material.” 
And there is another consideration to which our attention has been 
called, not for the first time, namely, the decrease in the number of 
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