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from the ProTince of Flanders, the commercial and civic authorities of 
Ohent, an 1 by the Government. It appears to be the custom of the 
latter to make a grant to any public object to which the commercial 
Exhibition of the Royal Horticultural Society of Ghent, and it will be 
conceded that the whole system differs somewhat from that followed in 
England in connection with undertakings of a similar nature. 
and civic authorities subscribe, to the extent of one-third the amount 
—that is to say, should those authorities subscribe 20,000 francs 
towards a public park, statue, or horticultural exhibition, the Govern¬ 
ment would g^ant 10,000 francs, besides affording other facilities for 
assisting. Such is the provision made for the twelfth Quinquennial 
There is a difference, too, in methods of detail *n the working of 
exhibitions in the two countries. In England the plants are rushed into 
the building or tent on the morning of the show day as a rule, and are not 
alwa 3 's in position by the appointed time, and half a dozen, more or less, 
of judges race through the work of adjudication, feeling themselves 
