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THREE DAYS' WONDER--THE CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW: Uncertain Weather Had Little Effect on Its Success

... THREE DAYS' WOiER-- THE CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW Uncertain Weather Had Little Effect on Its Success In a brief gleam of sunlight, Miss Elliott, Miss Lethbridge, Lady Patricia Lucas-Scudamore and Lady Broughton make a charming Arcadian group in the eighteenth- ...

Published: Wednesday 09 June 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 49 | Page: 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MISS SKETCH'S DATE-BOOK

... Cardiff's live at Stratford-on-Avon, and many of their friends from that part of the world were at the dance. MAY 26. Chelsea Flower Show, riot of colour and scents, incredible groups oj orchids. Their Majesties made an early visit, and in the evening the ...

Published: Wednesday 09 June 1948
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 659 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

A Four-Year Plan for Horticulture: And Glasshouses Designed to Help

... market produce shows, on the lines of the successful exhibition already established by the Hampshire growers, is most praiseworthy. This exhibition, together with the fine collection of produce staged by N.F.U. growers at Chelsea Flower Show last year, has ...

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL

... second half of the Queen Charlotte's Ball. On May 26th-May 28th is the Chelsea Flower Show, where each year one sees more and more beautiful flowers in the excellent setting of the Chelsea Hospital Gardens. On May 28th, Keble College are ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2270 | Page: 12, 13 | Tags: Photographs 

Chelsea In All Its Glory: Only Two Vegetable Displays-- But They Were Magnificent

... plants with stems, foliage and flowers as large as they can possibly be grown, and those who prefer plants of modest proportions which lend themselves to more graceful grouping. Chelsea is by tradition primarily a flower show, but it seems a pity, in these ...

Graphic

... The opening of the Flower Show happily fell on Queen Mary's birthday and she is here inspecting one of the rock gardens. Third on her right is the Princess Royal The King and Queen were also keenly-interested visitors on the opening day, and are seen ...

Published: Wednesday 09 June 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 165 | Page: 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Enterprise at the R.H.S

... Sanders a beautiful mauve Cattleya. Each plant is reputed to be teorth about £500 GENERAL VIEW OF THE SHOW Groups of flowering shrubs, spring-flowering bulbs in great variety, carnations, cyclamen and other greenhouse plants and alpines combined to make ...

Care of Fruit Trees in Summer

... planting out into the extended plantation, or for forcing in the greenhouse later on if desired. In my recent report on the Chelsea Show I referred briefly to the fact that the health and vigour of strawberry plants has greatly improved in recent years, owing ...