Flowers and Shows
The English seasons have been peculiarly unkind to holders of flower shows. For 'the first time in the chronicles the National Rose Society was forced to do without its early siro;v owing to the frost. This week, owing to the heat and drought the great provincial flower shows are robbed of some 'of their favourite flowers. The first and (till Southport inter- vened) the best of these is the show of the Shrewsbury Horti- cultural Society. I spent some pleasant hours in the flower tents and admired many exhibits ; but the omissions leapt to the eye in the tents, as in most gardens. Sweet peas especi- ally were few and poor and often too brief in the stalk to hold themselves up in a persuasive bunch. The rock-garden exhibits were few and meagre. Happily the season did not deter, it encouraged, the votaries of the cult... Over 00,000 people visited the Shrewsbury Quarry-on the second day in order to enjoy the Fair, the general scene and the flowers, perhaps in that order of merit.
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