3-028-282 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Royal Horticultural Society's exhibition of Spring flowers, [London], 1870. 'The Engraving on our front page shows the scene in the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, on Wednesday week, at the exhibition of spring flowers, which may be considered the first show of the year, bringing forward as it did many really magnificent specimens of orchids, camellias, cyclamens, and primulas. The weather was so genial that a very large and fashionable company attended, and remained afterwards to hear the band of the Royal Horse Guards, under the direction of Mr. Charles Godfrey, in the conservatory. There is every prospect that the hyacinth show on Wednesday next will be one of great interest, as the foreign growers offer prizes to a considerable amount'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.