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THE ORCHID EXHIBITION AT 
Mr. W I LLI A M B U jLU S Establishment 
FOR 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS, 
536, KING’S ROAD, CHELSEA, LONDON, S.W., 
WILL OPEN 
TO 
AND 
THOSE RECEIVING CARDS OF INVITATION, 
TUESDAY, MAY ist, iS88, 
And continue on view throughout MAY, JUNE and JULY, 
The following are a feiu short extracts from the Press respecting Last Season's Exhibition : — 
“The Morning Post.” 
“ The annual Exhibition of Orchids in blossom which has just been opened at Mr. William Bull’s Establishment, 
in Chelsea, worthily maintains its welLwon reputation. Both to the ardent floriculturist and the casual admirer it affords 
an opportunity of inspecting a collection of Nature’s floral jewels, rich and rare, such as can nowhere else be enjoyed. 
Not only may the visitor admire at his leisure, free from .such disagreeable surroundings as impenetrable jungles and 
malarious swamps, the choicest gcms_ from Eastern and Western tropic.s, but a scene of fairy-like beauty, in which the 
various exhibits are arranged with a view to artistic effect, and the stiffness and formality of the ordinary flower show is 
conspicuous only by its absence." 
“The Gardeners’ Chronicle." 
“ On Tuesday, Mr. Boll opened at his Nurseries, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, his Exhibition, which is annually 
looked forward to with so much pleasure by Orchid connoisseurs. There, gathered together in one place, m.ay be seen the 
richest gems of the Orchid family effectively arranged— the display impressing the visitor both by its arrangement and by 
the beauty and rarity of its components. We are unable to lay before our readers a full account of this Exhibition, to gain 
an adequate idea of which they should pay a visit to Chelsea and see for themselves. On entering the house devoted to 
this Exhibition, the first feeling is one of astonishment, which gives place to interest, whicli grows till, when the visitor 
thinks of leaving, it is with a wish that he may soon return.” 
“The Standard." 
“ Mr. William Bull’s Exhibition of Orchids is as astonishing in numbers and quality as ever. For the uninitiated 
one can only describe it as a blaze of varied colour — a spectacle unequalled in Europe, and assuredly unapproached in the 
native homes of these lovely flowers. For a good many years p.ast this show has been a feature of the London season, 
and it grows continually more astonishing. It is not necessary in the least to be enthusiastic about Orchids— scarcely, 
in ttuth, to care for them, in order to appreciate the glorious display. Such scenes belong to fairyland; and the visitor 
who has never seen an Orchid can enjoy them quite as well as the connoisseur, if not better, for he is not distracted 
by detail." 
“The Gardening World." 
“ Mr. William Bull’s magnificent display of Orchids in flower is now an established item in the calendar oi 
annual fashionable events, and is looked forward to by many with as much interest as the opening of the Royal Academy 
or Grosvenor Gallery. 'The show-house, as before, is filled to repletion with the choicest species and v.ineties now in 
flower; and the arrangement of the plants is all that the most fastidious could desire, every specimen being so placed as 
to harmoniously contrast with its surroundings, and the result is a triumph of the floral decorator’s art. The display 
is in every way a most remarkable one, and promises to remain so for the next three months." 
■" “ The Globe." 
One of the most important Exhibitions of rare Orchids yet held in London was yesterd.ay opened at Mr. William 
Bull's Nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea. Tlic exceeding beauty, together with the enlarged supply of these beautiful 
exotics, have caused them to materially increase in public estimation of late years, and no surer sign of their chances of 
popularity is to be found than in the great reduction in price which has recently taken place in all kinds of Orchidaceous 
plants. 'I'he most notable feature about the present Exhibition is the magnificent coup d'txit presented by the large 
conservatory in which the plants are grouped. The whole place is one mass of colour, and the brilliant blooms of several 
thousand plants garnered from every corner of the globe contrast most advantageously with the maidenhair fern in which 
they are embedded. So striking is the effect produced that we que.stion whether a similar display has ever been made." 
