June 5, 1897. 
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SATURDAY , JUNE 5th, 1897. 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, June 7th.—Second day of the Cheltenham Show. 
Cambridge Rose Show. 
Wednesday, June 9th.—Chelmsford Rose Show. 
Friday, June nth.—Sale of imported and established Orchids 
by Messrs Proth roe and Morris. 
^ThAT THEY SAY OF THE TEMPLE SHOW.- 
,s w» A second survey of the tenth annual 
show held last week in the Inner Temple 
Gardens enables us to corroberate what we 
said of it after a hasty survey on the morn¬ 
ing of the day of opening. All admit that 
it was a grand show and not a few experts 
are decidedly of opinion that it was the best 
of the series which has yet been held. Space 
is altogether deficient in those gardens and 
in the tents provided to admit of the 
natural growth of the show. Many of the 
large exhibitors would have doubled the 
extent of their exhibits provided there had 
been space available, while certain horti¬ 
cultural exhibits were altogether excluded. 
It will serve to give some idea of the popu¬ 
larity of this show when we state that 
22,600 sq. ft. of space was asked for, while 
only 11,800 sq. ft. were available. In face of 
this great demand for space, many will 
naturally ask whether the quality was all 
that could be desired, or in proportion to 
the limitations placed upon quantity. There 
can be no doubt that for the most part this 
must he answered in the affirmative. Some 
few exhibits may not have toed the line of 
former years, but a far larger number were 
certainly superior. The rule promulgated 
about two years ago, if we rightly remember, 
that duplicates in any one exhibit were in¬ 
admissible, is beginning to make itself felt 
to the advantage of exhibitors and visitors 
alike. The artistic arrangement of the 
exhibits continues to make progress ; and if 
we decline to say that perfection has been 
reached in any particular case it is because 
we regard that stage or goal as a nebulous 
and visionary thing, existing in imagination 
only as an unrealisable ideal. ’Twas ever 
such in all human affairs, for “ man never 
is, but always to be blest.” Probably it is 
well for all shows that such is the case, for 
without an incentive to better the past and 
laudable emulation on the part of exhibitors, 
all flower shows would soon come to a dead 
stagnation—“ dead perfection, no more ; 
nothing more, it it had not been,” as 
Tennyson says. 
What about the financial question, the 
practical man asks ? Well, the gate money 
taken during the first two days was equal to 
that of last year, so that the takings during 
the third day were additional. The weather 
was bad during the first and third days, 
some one insists. The sunshine introduced 
by the presence of royalty during the first 
day was sufficient to confound the calcula¬ 
tions of any weather prophet; and we know 
for certain, that most if not all of the 
exhibitors and gardeners were perfectly 
satisfied about the rain, notwithstanding 
the paradox that they wished it to be 
fine and wished for a good rain all in the 
same breath. Most certainly it was 
advantageous to the show, as well as horti¬ 
culture elsewhere that the atmospheric con¬ 
ditions changed on the 25th ult. The 
moist atmosphere was most favourable to 
all plants, flowers and vegetables, both in 
maintaining them in a healthy, fresh, and 
clean condition. Last year after the first 
day of the show the exhibits in tents 
No. 1, 2, and 3 were unfit for inspection on 
account of the thick coating of dust which 
settled upon them. Last week all this was 
changed for the better. Taking it then as 
a whole, it was a record show, and well 
worthy of the year of Her Majesty the 
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. 
Baron Schroder and Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart., still remain the champion 
exhibitors amongst amateurs, if not, indeed, 
amongst all comers in the Orchid line, if 
quantity, quality, variety and aggregate 
value are considered. Our calculations 
may not be based, however, on the same 
lines as those adopted by some of our lay 
contemporaries who speak of Cattleya 
Mossiae reineckeana as “ a new floral 
wonder,” “ an extraordinary Orchid,” and 
“ the largest and most beautiful Cattleya 
ever known to the civilised world, and it 
would take 1,000 gs. to buy it.” Some 
years ago the £%oo to £ 1,000 
Orchid was Cypripedium Stonei platy- 
taenium ; then it shifted to Odontoglossum 
crispum apiatum ; now the Cattleya has it, 
which is only fair. Verily we make pro¬ 
gress by leaps and bounds. In these 
cases the glamour lay in the big price. 
But what shall we say of the Orchid, 
which a lay brother says “ is the marvellous 
Bulbophyllum barbigerum, a flower vene¬ 
rated and feared in Dahomey and the West 
Coast for obvious reasons ? It belongs to 
the fly-catching class.” If we failed to see 
the obvious reasons, &c., we quite admit 
that it was owing to a lack of imagina¬ 
tion, and possibly the bearded wonder 
"had much of glamour might 
To make a lady seem a knight.’’ 
In an extensive and varied exhibition like 
that which was held last week there will 
always be sensations for someone ; but 
such impressions are short lived, for 
“ knowledge and feeling, perception and sen¬ 
sation, though always co-existent, are 
always in the inverse ratio of each other.” 
On the other hand there were many beauti¬ 
ful Orchids that will always remain beauti¬ 
ful though they cease to excite wonder and 
sensation. They are too numerous to re¬ 
count here ; but more epithets might with 
propriety be applied to the large specimen 
of Coelogyne dayana, than pretty, graceful, 
elegant, attractive, handsome, and charm¬ 
ing ; though glowing colours in this species 
are conspicuous by their absence. But 
surely the telegraph wire must be held re¬ 
sponsible for the following variant from a 
provincial contemporary : — “ Baron 
Schxoeder sent a perfect plant of the 
coeboyne dazana, with its floating flowers 
so closely resembling a swarm of bees that 
the visitor could almost hear them buzz.” 
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Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Institution.—Messrs. 
Rothschild & Sous have contributed the sum of /210 
to the funds of the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent 
Institution. 
Frost at Ashford.— While frost has been of common 
occurrence almost every morning during the past 
month, it was so severe at Ashford on the 15th ult. 
as to cut Potatos and other market garden produce 
to the ground. The abundant blossom on the fruit 
trees was also destroyed by the frost and cold cut¬ 
ting winds, to a great extent. 
