August 26, 1899. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
819 
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Edited by J. FRASER. F.L.S. 
SATURDAY , AUGUST 26 th, 1899. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, August 28th.—Messrs. Protheroe & Morris’ sales of 
1,800 lots of Dutch Bulbs, at their Sale Rooms, 67 and 68, 
Cheapside, commencing at 11 o'clock. 
Tuesday, August 29th.—R.H.S. Meeting at Drill Hall. 
Wednesday, August 30th.—Dover Flower Show. 
Thursday, August 31st.—Thame, Maidenhead and Sandy 
District Flower Shows; Messrs. Protheroe & Morris'Sale 
at 11 o’clock, in their Cheapside Sale Rooms,of 1,500 lots of 
Dutch Bulbs. 
Friday, September 1st.—National Dahlia Exhibition at Crystal 
Palace (2 days). 
Saturday, September 2nd.—Worsley and District Agricultural 
and Horticultural Society’s Exhibition. 
||OT ONE BUT MANY HORTICULTURAL HALLS 
wanted. —Scarcely a year passes but 
we hear of damage to, or destruction of 
flower show tents, marquees, staging and 
exhibits, but particularly of damage, some¬ 
times irreparable, to flne specimens of 
exhibition plants that may have taken 
years to reach the proper size, and an in¬ 
calculable amount of time and labour to 
bring to perfection. About two years ago 
a sudden gale of wind in the north of 
England reduced the grand exhibition of 
the Yorkshire Gala to a pitiable wreck. 
Later in the season a similar fate was 
feared for the Shrewsbury show. We have 
seen the big tent at the Temple Show 
almost trembling in the balance. The 
tents of the Amersham flower show were 
blown down on the 15th; and between 8 
and 9 p.m. on the 16th inst. a hurricane 
sprung up at Aberdeen, and overwhelTed 
the three large marquees,one after the other, 
that had been erected in the Duthie Park 
to accommodate the annual flower show. 
Wednesday being the night before the 
opening of the show a large quantity of the 
exhibits, fruit, flowers, vegetables and 
specimen plants had been put in position. 
Everything augured well f.r a fine and 
successful show till the gale sprung up. To 
all appearances the quality of the exhibits 
was of a high order of merit; but in a com¬ 
paratively short time the marquees had all 
been blown down, tables overturned, 
specimen plants smashed, and fruit and 
vegetables scattered about the place 
and mixed up in a state of the utmost 
confusion. 
This is not the first time, in our recol¬ 
lection, that a similar mishap has over¬ 
taken the Aberdeen Horticultural Socie'.y, 
to which we, in company with many others, 
can only offer our sympathy for the great 
loss the society, as well as individual ex¬ 
hibitors, must have sustained. As a matter 
of course, no judging of exhibits could be 
attempted on account of the damage to 
plants and the mixing up of various 
people’s fruit and vegetables, independently 
of the damage done to the same. As soon 
as the gale moderated the energetic officers 
of the society did not fold their arms in 
despair, but set about getting other 
marquees and erecting them, so that the 
exhibits might be replaced in pos'tion as 
far as possible, so that the patronising 
public might be able to inspect the show. 
All the pot plants were re-staged by noon 
on Thursday (17th) ; but it took most of the 
remainder of the day to get the cut flowers, 
fruit and vegetables into anything like 
order. The Countess of Aberdeen, after 
being introduced by Lord Provost Fleming, 
formally opened the show. She was 
accompanied by the Earl of Aberdeen, 
who also took part in the speech-making. 
Several other influential ladies and gentle¬ 
men were present, all sympathising with 
the society for the mishap which had 
befallen their show, the success of which 
depended now solely upon the gate money 
and the patronage of the general public. 
Lord Aberdeen complimented the officials 
of the society for their prompt endeavours 
to repair the effects caused by the hurricane. 
During the day excellent music was dis¬ 
pensed by the band of the ist Battalion 
Gordon Highlanders from Edinburgh 
Castle. 
A similar catastrophe is liable to overtake 
any society throughout the country, whose 
show is staged under canvas, exposed to 
the fury of the elements, which are always 
uncertain on any given day, in our latitude. 
It would be a boon to societies, and horti¬ 
culturists generally throughout the land, if 
some genius would devise a means for 
insuring the safety of tents and exhibits 
against sudden gales of wind. It is not 
every town and village that could hope to 
acquire a horticultural hall; but in the 
absence of that, something more durable 
than tent poles, and less liable to destruction 
than canvas would prove an inestimable 
boon. Even if tent poles were made strong 
enough, no canvas could stand against the 
fury of the elements, owing to its liability to 
become concave and act as a receptacle for 
the accumulation of the wind. Wooden 
houses for the accommodation ofoneortwo 
shows in the course of the year would be 
costly and impracticable, except in the case 
of the more wealthy societies; but much 
could be accomplished by the co-operation 
of different societies, and even corporations, 
in building halls of a permanent character 
for the general welfare of the community. 
