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February 22, 1896. 
FIXTURES FOR 1896. 
February. 
24. —Annual Meeting, National Chrysanthemum 
Society. 
25. —Torquay Spring Show. 
27. —Kew Guild, Annual General Meeting. 
March. 
9.—Annual Meeting of the U.H.P. and B. Society. 
10. —R.H.S. 
13, 14.—Spring Flower Show at the Manchester 
Town Hall. 
14, —Royal Botanic Society. 
18.—Royal Botanic Society. 
18. —Devon and Exeter Gardeners’ Association 
Spring Flower Show. 
7.—R.H.S. 
25. —Torquay Gardeners’ Society's Show. 
26. 27, 28.—People’s Palace Horticultural Show. 
28. —Royal Botanic Society. 
April. 
Two days’ Spring Show in Edgbaston Botanical 
7. —R.H S. [Gardens (dates not fixed). 
8, 9.—R. Caledonian Society’s Show, at Edinburgh. 
11. —Royal Botanic Society. 
15, 16.—Newcastle Spiing Show. 
17, !8.—Blackburn and District Spring Show. 
21. —R.H.S., with Auricula and Primula Show. 
22. —Chesterfield and District Spring Show. 
25.—National Auricula Society’s Show (Northern 
section) at the Royal Botanical Gardens, 
Manchester. 
May. 
2. —International Horticultural Exhibition at Dres- 
5.—R.H.S. [den. 
8. —Royal Botanic Society, Lecture. 
13.—Royal Botanic Society, Show. 
15.—Royal Botanic Society, Lecture. 
19, 20, 21.—R H.S. Great Temple Show. 
19. 20, 21.—Devon County Agricultural Society’s 
Show at Plymouth. 
20. —Royal Botanic Society, Promenade. 
21. —The Annual Whitsuntide Exhibition will open 
at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Man¬ 
chester. 
22. —Royal Botanic Society, Lecture. 
27. —Royal Botanic Society, Promenade. 
27, 28, 29, 30.—Bath and West and Southern 
Counties Show at St. Albans. 
29. —Royal Botanic Society, Lecture. 
30. —Royal Botanic Society. 
June. 
3. —Royal Botanic Society, Promenade. 
5.—Royal Botanic Society, Lecture. 
9. —R.H.S. 
10. —Royal Botanic Society, Floral Fete. 
12. —Royal Botanic Society, Lecture. 
13. —Royal Botanic Society. 
17.—Royal Botanic Society, Promenade. 
17, 18, 19.-—York Floral and Horticultural Fete. 
17.—Colchester Rose Show. 
19.—Royal Botanic Society, Lecture. 
24.—National Rose Exhibition at Reading. 
24.—Royal Botanic Society, Promenade. 
24. —Richmond Show. 
25. 26, 27.—People’s Palace Show. 
26. —Royal Botanic Society, Lecture. 
27. —Royal Botanic Society. 
27. —Windsor Rose Show. 
30.—Sutton Rose Show. 
July. 
1.—Royal Botanic Society, Evening Fete. 
1.—Croydon Rose Show. 
1. —Ealing Rose Show. 
2. —Eltham Rose Show. 
2.—Gloucester Rose Show. 
2.—Norwich Rose Show. 
4.—National Rose Show at Crystal Palace. 
8.—Royal Botanic Society, Promenade. 
8.—Lee, Blackheath, Lewisham, and W. Kent Show. 
8, 9, 10.—Newcastle Summer Show. 
8.—Redhill Rose Show. 
9 —Helensburgh Rose Show. 
9'.—Worksop Rose and Horticultural Show. 
11. —Royal Botanic Society. 
14. —R.H.S. 
15. —Royal Botanic Society, Promenade. 
15.—-Ulverston Rose Show. 
21. —Tibshelf Rose Show. 
22. — Royal Botanic Society, Promenade. 
25.—Rose Show at the Manchester Royal Botanical 
Gardens. 
28. —R.H.S. 
29. —Royal Botanic Society, Promenade. 
August. 
3.—Beddington, Carshalton, and Wallington Show. 
5.—Royal Botanic Society, Promenade. 
5. —Chesterfield Rose Show. 
6, 7.—Grimsby Show. 
10. —Royal Botanic Society’s Anniversary. 
11. —R.H.S. 
12—Royal Botanic Society, Promenade. 
15.—National Rose Show at Ulverston. 
17, 18.—Felling Show. 
19, 20.—Shrewsbury Floral Fete. 
21.—Devon & Exeter Society’s Summer Flower Show 
25. —R.H.S. 
26. —Harpenden Show. 
FIXTURES.— Continued. 
September. 
1, 2, 3.—N.C.S. Show. 
2, 3.—Milton and Sittingbourne Show. 
8.—R.H.S. 
9, 10. — R. Caledonian Society’s Show, at Edinburgh. 
10, 11, 12.—Special Exhibition of Produce grown 
by the tenants of small holdings, at the 
Manchester Royal Botanical Gardens. 
15, 16. —Bunyard’s Centenary Show at Maidstone. 
October. 
I, 2, 3.—R.H.S. Fruit Show at Crystal Palace. 
6, 7, 8.—N.C.S. Show. 
13.—R.H.S. 
27. —R.H.S. 
28. —Torquay Autumn Show. 
November. 
3, 4, 5, 6.—N.C.S. Great Jubilee Shows and 
Festivities. 
3, 4.—Penzance Chrysanthemum Show. 
5, 6.—Devon and Exeter Society's Fruit and Chry¬ 
santhemum Show. 
5, 6.—West Kent Chrysanthemum Show at Bexley 
Heath. 
10.—R.H.S. 
10.—Hanley Chrysanthemum Show. 
10, 11.—Kingston and Surbiton Chrysanthemum 
Show. 
10, 11.—Chesterfield and District Chrysanthemum 
Show. 
10, 11.—Folkestone Chrysanthemum Show. 
II. —Yeovil Chrysanthemum, Fruit and Flower Show. 
11, 12.—Hull Chrysanthemum Show. 
11. 12.—Birmingham Chrysanthemum Show. 
12. —Highgate Chrysanthemum Show. 
13. —Stockport Chrysanthemum Show. 
13, 14.—Sheffield Chrysanthemum Show. 
13, 14. —Bradford Chrysanthemum Show. 
14, —Royal Botanic Society. 
15, 16, 17.—Ghent Chrysanthemum Show. 
17, 18.—Chester Paxton Society’s Fruit _and Chry¬ 
santhemum Show. 
18, 19.—Newcastle Chrysanthemum Show. 
19, 20, 21.—Edinburgh Chrysanthemum Show. 
20, 21.—Chrysanthemum Show at the Manchester 
Town Hall. 
24— R.H.S. 
28.—Royal Botanic Society. 
December. 
1, 2, 3.—N.C.S. Show. 
12.—Royal Botanic Society. 
15—R.H.S. 
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