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Gigantic Christmas-Tree, at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, 1854. Festivities in south London: '...a Christmas-Tree of gigantic proportions, to correspond with the stupendous Palace of Glass. The stupendous festive trophy occupies the centre of the Great Transept. The general design has been very cleverly carried out by Mr. Hurwitz...This monster Tree is loaded with a variety of brilliant ornaments and nicknacks, a profusion ol large and small elegant Chinese lamps, and a number of flags and banners of all nations...The square platform on which the great Tree rests is formed of large mirrors, and these reflect the decorations and multiply the trees and other ornaments, giving much lightness and brilliancy to the arrangement'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.