474 Heport of the Senior Steicard of Implements at Windso'r, 
the Prince of Wales and representatives of the Society on the 
Wednesday of the Meeting — these were all notable events in 
connection with the Show which will doubtless be fully noticed 
in the History of the Society, but which hardly fall within the 
province of a Steward of the yard to describe at length. Un- 
doubtedly they had each and all an important share in adding to 
the eclat of the Meeting, and to its success. 
It was obvious from the first that the Windsor Show would 
be one of unusual size, but the final entries surpassed the most 
sanguine anticipations, and made the task of those responsible 
for the preparations a very arduous and anxious one. The fact 
that when the Show opened its gates all the arrangements had 
been made with the usual completeness, and that there was no 
hitch of any kind in the organisation throughout the week, is 
one upon which the Society may well be congratulated. 
The number of implements entered at Windsor reached a 
total of 7,4-i6, in 553 stands, the shedding for which comprised 
15,602 feet, exclusive of open ground space. This number 
beats the record of all previous years, with the exceptions of 
Ivilburn (1879), Oxford (1870), Manchester (1869), and Wolver- 
hampton (1871). It must be borne in mind, however, that after 
the Wolverhampton Show the exhibition of duplicate entries 
was prohibited, which naturally made a great difference in the 
totals, so that practically, the Kilburn International Show alone 
excepted, the display of implements at Windsor was the largest 
and at the same time the most comprehensive that has ever 
been gathered together by the Society. 
The Show has once before been held at Windsor — in 1851, the 
year of the Great Exhibition, when Her Majesty the Queen, the 
Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, and other members of the 
Royal Family paid it a visit. But in that year there were no 
implements shown, the Society having foregone this part of its 
exhibition in favour of the " Crystal Palace " in Hyde Park. 
At the first London Show, held at Battersea in 1862, there were 
342 stands and 5,064 articles catalogued. The following brief 
table gives the number of feet run of shedding (exclusive of open 
ground space) allotted at Kilburn in 1879, and Windsor in 1889, 
together with the mean of the seven years 1882-8 : — 
Description of shcilijiut; 
Windsor 
Average of 7 
Kilburn 
(exclusive of open grouud space) 
1889 
years 1882-8 
1879 
10,378 
8,077 
16,000 
2,496 
1,869 
Special shedding (including seeds, 
2,728 
1,600 
2,220 
models, &c.) 
Total 
15,e02 
11,546 
22,!)03 
