VOL. LV.— No. 3,055. 



SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1912 



THE 



GARDENERS 



9 



MAGAZINE 



^Q'pg Qp THE "WEEK. highest importance to the industries 



♦ 



with which they are specially associated, 

 while others are not fnlly persuaded that 



magnitude 



the 



Utility of interna.tional 



Exhibitions. 



We are now within some four or five days 

 of the opening of the great horticultural 

 <'xhibition at Chelsea, which will unques- 

 ti(Miably surpass in comprehensiveness and 



most noteworthy of the 

 ^hows of a similar charac- 

 ttr that have been held, 

 iu)t only in this country, 

 but in any part of the 

 world. As we wait with 

 pleasurable anticipations 

 the unlocking of the 

 »;ates by which access is 

 ol)tained to the Royal 

 Hospital grounds, and 

 the enjoyment to be de- 

 rived from the 



they are a decided benefit; or, it may be, take into account the community 



about results that are beneficial to a goodly 

 number of individuals. But in considering 

 a question of this kind it is necessary to 



ther 



hold the view that they are more or less 

 hurtful. There is, of course, no great diffi- 

 culty in understanding that 

 national exhibition, which 



an inter- 



brings promi- 

 nently before the community of a country 

 in which it is held the manufactures and 

 products of other nations, may not bring 



than the individual, and determine whether 

 the advantage to the former is sufficient 

 to counterbalance 

 which individuals 



varied 



time, 



many, 



, and wondrously 

 hoautiful objects that 

 w:ll represent the gar- 

 <lening art at its best, it 

 may be of some adA^an- 

 tage to consider whether 

 (exhibitions of an inter- 

 national character pos- 

 sess a sufficient degree of 

 utility to justify the ex- 

 penditure of 

 energy, and money m- 

 volved in bringing them 

 t<) a successful conclu- 

 sion. There has long been 

 ^onie difference in the 

 views that obtain with 

 e^ard to the utility of 

 ^'i:h exhibitions, and 

 ^liis divergence may be 

 ^Nl>ected to continue, in 

 lessened degree, for 

 'lie considerable time 



This difference 



1 



a 



'11 tlie views 



held with 



© pro- 



to the question is 

 ''y "<> means confined to 

 tlios,. who are conctTned 

 "ith exhihitioiiH devoted 



the products of private 

 p'lidens and commercial 

 ''<" ticulture, but is found 

 ' " a somewhat mor 

 """need form among 

 ^"ose who are eonneeted 

 |Mth the various manu- 

 '^"•t'n-es that contribute 



"^'■^terially to the pros- 



"^> '>fthe great centres 

 /■""nnorcial activity in 

 ;--try Man/ we 



na ! ,™»^»der inter- 

 "^^'onal exhibitions of 



any disadvantage at 

 m ay be pi a ced in the 

 course of their ordinary avocations. It is 

 not, in th's connection, difficult to imagine 

 a case where an international exhibition 



will bring into promi- 

 nence some product or 

 appliance that is so far 

 superior to the one pre- 

 viously in demand as to 

 quickl^^ supersede it. In 

 such cases the home pro- 

 ducer has to make such 

 changes in his method of 

 procedure as will enable 

 him to meet the competi- 

 tion to which he is thus 

 subjecte<l, or submit to 

 a reduction in his busi- 

 ness, in either case suf- 



C:g^BIDirM WOODHAMENSIS FOWLER'S VAKIETV. 



Flowers bright yellow, tinted green. F.C.C., R.H.S., 

 May 14. J. Gnrney Fowler, Esq. (gardener, Mr. Davies^, 



Glebelands, South Woodford. 



fering 

 loss. 



some 



pecuniary 

 Although not spe- 

 cially associated with in- 

 ternational exhibitions, 

 the early importations of 

 American apples may be 

 referred to as affording 

 an excellent illustration 

 of the manner in which 

 t he p r od u ce r and the 

 community may be af- 

 fected in different ways 

 by the in t rod n ction of 

 something of a superior 

 character from a 



different 



quite 

 of the 



part 



world. Until some thirty 

 years ago the English 

 markets were almost 

 \\ h ol 1 y <1 e pe n d e n t for 

 their supplies of applet 

 upon the produce of farm 

 orchards, and of miser- 

 ably poor quality was tho 

 greater proportion of the 

 fruit. Nothing Avasdone 

 by the owners to bring 

 about an improvement in 

 the quality of the sup- 



and when the 



plies ; 

 large, 



highly - coloured 

 of American or- 



apples 

 < h.iids wore exhibited in 

 t lu^ markets ami shops 

 all n\ ('I the ("ountry, 

 tliev at oiH'c suiuMseded 

 the fruit that liiul pre- 

 uslv heen consitU re 1 



)>v the 



VH) 



gocxl 



growers. 



enough 



A consider a bie 



