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RAND EXHIBITION of Chrysanthe¬ 
mums, Fruits, and Vegetables, Wednesday and Thursday 
November 9th and 10th. 
The Floral Committee will meet October 26th, November 9th 
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Frampton Parle Nurseries, Hachney. _ 
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Gardeners Calendar . 157 
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Nurserymen v. the Poor 
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1887. 
The National Chrysanthemum Society.— 
The ensuing week will find us right in the 
very thick of the Chrysanthemum shows ; 
but of all, and they are legion, none will 
create more genuine Chrysanthemum en¬ 
thusiasm than will the “National,” which 
holds its great annual festival at the Royal 
Aquarium, Westminster, on Wednesday and 
Thursday next. Rarely in the history of 
associations, or of public bodies of any 
description, have we seen one stepping from 
pure parochialism into the full vigour of 
national importance so quickly and yet so 
admirably as the National Chrysanthemum 
Society has done. It may be yet that— 
remembering the old adage about not being 
“ off with the old love before being on with 
the new ”—the society still holds out a hand, 
in a local sense, to its old friends in the 
Borough of Hackney; but that remnant of 
parochialism, whilst hardly desirable in a 
society of such national pretentions, still 
seems not to impede its admirable work in 
a more truly national aspect. None the less, 
we hope that the society will become more 
national and less local every year, until its 
localism is absorbed in its greater expansion. 
Whilst the society is not to be con¬ 
gratulated absolutely in the choice of its 
habitations, either in the City or the West- 
end—the Royal Aquarium especially being 
neither too light nor too sweetly savoured— 
yet it is in a most central position, and so 
easy of access that much is to be condoned 
on that account. Certainly the executive of 
the society, in holding their shows at the 
Royal Aquarium, do provide their exhibitors 
with) an abundance of admirers of the grand 
winter flower ; and there again is found an 
advantage which more select or aristocratic 
quarters fail to provide. If some 10,000 
flower lovers do not visit the National Show 
next week it will not he because the charge 
for admission is prohibitory, or for the want 
of due publicity. 
In the matter of money’s worth, pfobably, 
the “National ” is the cheapest Chrysanthemum 
show in the kingdom, for whilst the tables are 
laden with abundance, the quality is of the 
very best. We are specially thankful to the 
society for keeping alive the interesting display 
of fruits and vegetables, which serve so largely 
to attract gardeners as well as the general 
public. Almost always the exhibits in these 
departments are of first-rate excellence, and the 
competitions exciting. These are, however, 
mere accessories to the feast, which is chiefly 
floral, and a grand one, too. Whatever is new 
or novel in the Chrysanthemum, whatever is 
exceptionally fine in flowers, in plant culti¬ 
vation, in group arrangement, or in the setting 
up of flowers, is certain to he found at the 
Royal Aquarium, and to win honours there is 
to win honours second to none other. 
Again, in its Floral Committee work, the 
National Chrysanthemum Society is rapidly 
obtaining really national prestige. Chrysan¬ 
themum raisers and growers are fast coming to 
the conclusion that it is better to have their 
flowers submitted to a body of which every 
member is an expert than to a mixed gathering, 
of which a third, perhaps, are fitted to give an 
opinion and the remainder are not. Even in 
this respect alone the establishment of the 
National Society is to the Chrysanthemum a 
great gain. It is a genuine authority on all 
that relates to the flower, and one which is 
rapidly securing the widest respect. 
We can but urge that the members of the 
society will try to strengthen the prestige which 
it is thus fast acquiring by refraining from 
pressing local claims or jiersonal aims in con¬ 
stituting the executive, or in the performance 
of its legitimate work. The mere individual 
may, to some extent, be lost or absorbed in the 
greater expansion of the society, and of its aims 
and objects ; but nationally the gain is con¬ 
siderable, whilst the broader the basis of the 
society—and, not least, of its official selection— 
the greater will be the esteem shown throughout 
the kingdom. We have yet only the most in¬ 
different conception as to the future of the 
Chrysanthemum ; but its recent growth as an 
exhibition, as well as a purely decorative flower, 
seems almost startling. 
Judged by the past, its future will he, even 
in the history of garden flowers, a remarkable 
one. The National Society may not only 
materially help to make, but also to beneficially 
mould, that history; and it may he that the 
progress of the flower—or, rather, its develop¬ 
ment—may henceforth, as it certainly has done 
in the past, help to mould the future of the 
society also. Much will depend upon the 
breadth of intelligence brought to bear upon its 
guidance. Most heartily do we wish the Society 
a prosperous year now, and a progressive and 
useful future. 
