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The Flower Cult The continuous increase of the flower show at the Royal has gone step by step with the growth of flower-farming and glasshouse farming in England. One single farmer now owns hyacinth farms in Devon, Hampshire, Lincolnshire and the north ; another is doing well with the exclusive cultivation
of freesias. In South Lincolnshire growers of daffodils and tulips are increasing the variety of their output yearly. They attained a Dutch quality long ago, but are only just beginning to rival the Dutch in the culture of the early tulips. Glass- houses on small holdings are making parts of Lancashire resemble the Lea valley in Hertfordshire or the Valley of Glass " in Guernsey. How intense is the zeal in gardening among amateurs may be inferred from the acute competition to exhibit at the Royal. This most spacious flower show was much too small to enable the authorities to accept more than a fair percentage of requests for space. Some fifty firms were regretfully refused space.
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