1988, only Members are allowed into the Show on Tuesday and Wednesday, with ticket prices from 7 to 20, while the general public is confined to Thursday and Friday and pays from 12 to 27. The RHS has established the standards and the important principle that we do not allow plants to be sold at our shows without a visual contribution. Without this policy you would end up with a street market atmosphere with no educational value. Plants may not be sold from the stands in the Floral Marquees until an hour before the whole Show closes. Other shows are less stringent and this is yet another reason why Chelsea is such a great spectacle. 12 Since the 1980s, when conservatories became very popular, there was been a big demand for Show space by their manufactures. There has also been pressure for more room by firms selling powered machinery lawn mowers and twig shredders,
Дети пэров носят фамилию отца, титул же переходит к старшему сыну. peerage Сословие пэров (наследственное; высшее титулованное дворянство; имеет пять степеней: duke [герцог], marquis, marquees [маркиз], earl [граф], viscount [виконт], baron [барон]. Принадлежность к сословию пэров дает наследственное право членства в Палате лордов). hereditary peer = peer наследственный пэр; = пэр life peer пожизненный пэр (лицо, получившее титул пэра,
" She considered the Persian to be less reliable in temperament than the English short-hairs, but considered them more intelligent and also keen hunters. However, they were less healthy than short-hairs and the longest haired kittens were the most difficult to rear. She attributed these health problems to in-breeding. Persians were disadvantaged by the fact that cat shows were held in the summer months (many were held in marquees), at a time when long-haired cats were moulting and tended to look moth-eaten and unkempt. This, she felt, held them back - not that the numbers shown upheld this opinion, long-hairs outnumbered English short-hairs by about four to one! According to John Jennings "Domestic or Fancy Cats", published a little earlier than Simpson's work, "Of the many varieties or breeds of the cat with which we are now familiar,