Referaat "Chelsea Flower Show"
war cemeteries in France.
The 1916 Show was therefore very downbeat: it had no great tent, alcoholic drinks
were not allowed on the exhibitors' stands, and the theme was Hardy Flowers for
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Wartime. The band refused to play German music. There was only one show garden;
and the Hon. Vicary Gibbs turned from vegetables to scented-leaved pelargoniums.
The weather, ironically, was glorious.
In 1917 the RHS abandoned the Show, citing new entertainment taxes as a reason,
and Chelsea was suspended for two years.
The First World War had been for only six months when the 1919 Chelsea Flower
Show opened, following a vote "overpoweringly in the affirmative" to start up again.
The year 1926 produced another problem: The General Strike. Fortunately it ended
just in time for the Chelsea Flower Show to go ahead, on 25 May postponed by one
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