July 30, 1892. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
751 
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NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday. Aug. 1.—Cottagers’ Flower Show at the International 
Horticultuial Exhibition, Earl’s Court. 
Beddington and Carsbalton Flower Show. 
Mansfield Flower Show. 
Northampton Flower Show (2 days). 
Tuesday, Aug. 2.— Oxford Union Carnation Show. 
Abbey Park, Leicester, Show and Gala. 
Friday, Aug. 5.—Sale of Oichids at Messrs. Protheroe and 
Morris’ Rooms. 
Saturday, Aug. 6.— Midland Carnation and Picotee Show at 
Birmingham. 
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Edited by BRIAN WYNNE, F.R.H.S. 
SATURDAY, JULY 30 th, 1892. 
€ 1ottagers’ Garden Exhibitions.— 
1 Next Monday and the two following 
days there will be held, should competitors 
turn up in plenty, one of the largest bona- 
fide exhibitions of cottagers’ garden produce 
jet seen in this country. At least it will 
be from no fault of the schedule and the 
excellence of the prizes, for there are 
upwards of 100 classes for Vegetables, 
Fruits, Plants, and Flowers, open to every¬ 
body who can claim to come under the 
category of Artizan or Cottager. This 
large show will be held at the Earl’s Court 
Exhibition, and those cottager exhibitors 
from rural districts who may wish to have 
a profitable holiday may do a hundred 
times worse than bring good exhibits in 
garden produce to this show, and see at 
the same time all the sights the exhibition 
comprises. 
We very much hope that no person 
actuated by a desire to secure prizes will 
compete who does not honourably come 
under the designation of cottager, as 
generally accepted, as that would be taking 
a very unfair advantage of a schedule 
designed for the benefit of the working 
classes. Those whose business it is to 
attend suburban flower shows can testify 
that it should not be difficult from a radius 
of 20 miles around London to obtain a very 
fine show of the products looked for. We 
saw but the other day in a Northern 
suburb a truly wonderful display of cottage 
garden produce, and there should be plenty 
of such all round the metropolis. 
It is all the more to be desired that the 
exhibits at Earl’s Court should be bona-fide 
of cottage garden or allotment culture, 
because they would in that case present a 
valuable object lesson indicative of the 
good or otherwise horticultural knowledge 
existent amongst the ordinary workers of 
the community. We shall look to this 
show with exceeding interest. 
