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... calendar alone shows what an extraordinarily wide (and trying) range of duties Royalty is called upon to perform. In the remaining days of May the Queen Mother will open an oil refinery at Coryton, open a housing estate, open the Chelsea Flower Show and present ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1425 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

STAY PLUMP AND LIKE IT..

... Remember the Queen Mother, definitely matronly, but full of dignity and poise. Could a thin woman examine a rose at the Chelsea Flower Show with such warmth and such charm One wonders would history have been different had the future Duchess of Windsor been ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1956
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1311 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

Chelsea Show Surpassed Its Own High Standard: Remarkable Exhibits From All Over Britain And The Commonwealth

... Chelsea Show Surpassed Its Own High Standard Remarkable Exhibits From All Over Britain And The Commonwealth By Our Horticultural Correspondent IT is no exaggeration to say that this year's Chelsea Flower Show achieved a degree of perfection ...

Orchids For The Amateur

... majority of green house plants in that they must be shaded 0 EXOTIC AND EXCITING A fine group of orchids staged at Chelsea Flower Show by Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., of Haywards Heath, one of the leading specialist firms. CYMBIDIUM BRUGES GEM Beige ...

Up and down the land

... glass in cold weather. The sides of the ditches are lined with brushwood, straw and stone in order to retain heat. The Chelsea Flower Show opens on May 20. A novel feature will be a garden planned by William Wood and Son, Ltd., of Taplow, Bucks, in honour ...

THE FIFTH SEASON

... forgot it was her party. Chelsea and The Show One early event of the Season is the Chelsea Flower Show, which has just opened. This beautiful sight bursts in full and riotous blossom upon all except those who live in ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1602 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

Fabulous FLOWERS... fabulous PEOPLE...

... the transport of precious British exhibits, most of which are expected to be back in unblemished good looks for the Chelsea Flower Show. For the programme, M. Joffet has selected a number poem for each of the exhibits, and looking through it I am left ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1959
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1650 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

THE QUEEN AMONG THE FLOWERS

... present their credentials, and attending to affairs of state, she visited the Chelsea Flower Show, and went to Epsom for the Derby and the Oaks. The Chelsea Flower Show of the Royal Horticultural Society was ...

Published: Wednesday 08 June 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3341 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ROYAL VISIT TO DENMARK

... country estate. Chelsea Flower Show A historian of the future who wanted to find out about the English character could do worse than study the events of the London Season. The Derby (which takes place today, Wednesday), and Ascot, show our deeply ingrained ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1957
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3520 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

Sketch-Book

... being Miss Grace Stepping into her eighty-third year Queen Mary at the Chelsea Flower Show three days before her birthday. We wish her many more happy and colourful visits to this Show in the years to come. THE ?QET£ A DAV IN J i)NE-- Lencyk. Opposed to ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1746 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

ON OAK APPLE DAY: The Obscure Origins of Traditional Ceremonies On May 29 at Wishford, Chelsea and Northampton

... life, along with the English Folk Dance Festival, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Windsor Horse Show, the Chelsea Flower Show, the Padstow Hobby Horse, the Helston Flora, the Brass Band Festival, the Bath and West, the Hereford Mayfair, ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1648 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

SOME PORTRAITS IN PRINT: Being the lucubrations of your most obedient scribe Mr. Gordon Beckles

... Tournament and the Chelsea Flower Show. Such a composition presented itself for a lovely moment in Hyde Park one fine May morning in the driveway which leads past the old French Embassy to the Barracks. In the background were the flower beds and riders cantering ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1579 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs