The Royal Horticultural Society
The Royal Horticultural Society ( RHS ) is a British club, whose aim is to promote the art of gardening.
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History
It was founded on March 7, 1804 as the London Horticultural Society in Mr. Hatchard 's Bookshop in Piccadilly. The founding members were Josiah Wedgwood as chairman, William Townsend Aiton, director of Kew Gardens, Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, James Dickson, a gardener William Forsyth ( overseer of the gardens of St. James 's Palace and Kensington Palace ), Charles Francis Greville, an admiral and Richard Anthony Salisbury. My first solid club seat was in Regent Street. When she got into financial difficulties in 1859, with debts of over £ 10,000, they had to spend the club seat and sell the library. She was finally rehabilitated by Prince Albert of Saxe- Coburg -Gotha with funding from the Great Exhibition in London, Queen Victoria donated £ 1,000, followed by other members of the royal family. Since 1861 they may carry the name Royal Horticultural Society thanks to a decree of Prince Albert of Saxe- Coburg- Gotha. You leases on the advice of the Prince land at Kensington Gore, in 1861 there her first show garden was opened in the Italian style. 1864 had the gardens 152962 paying visitors. In addition, members of the Society and their friends were able to visit the gardens at the weekend for free. In order to make them more appealing, the tennis game was allowed on the lawns in the 1870s.
1867 began the Secretary of the Society, John Lindley, build a new library. As the company had taken over financially again, the gardens had to be closed in the 1870s. Today is located on the grounds, among others, the Imperial College. 1928, the Company had 25,000 members. In 1979, after a wave of bankruptcies of traditional horticulture in Britain in the Thatcher years justified the RHS, the National Council for the conservation of Plants and Gardens.
The Royal Horticultural Society has the status of a charity today.
Activities
The activities of the Royal Horticultural Society since 1827 include a range of garden shows. Since 1862 a Spring Show was held, first in Kensington, then in the Temple Gardens in enbankment from 1913 in Chelsea. Hence the held annually Chelsea Flower Show developed. In 1985, the Review Committee determined the Company that the RHS was under-represented outside of South East England. After more exhibitions were held in other parts of England.
2013 organized by the RHS RHS London Plant and Design Show in mid-February, RHS Great London Plant Fair in late March, the Orchid & Botanical Art Show in April, RHS Show Cardiff, Malvern Spring Gardening Show in early May (since 1988), RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in July ( organized by the RHS since 1993), RHS Flower Show Tatton Park, Malvern Autumn Show in late September, RHS London Harvest Festival Show and RHS London Shades of Autumn Show in October.
The Harlow Carr Show, Scotland 's Garden Show and is News International International Spring Gardening Fair no longer take place.
The RHS will award several prizes and awards, in particular the Award of Garden Merit plant varieties has a significant importance for trading.
Facilities
The RHS Wisley Gardens in pattern maintains in Surrey, Rosemoor in Devon, Hyde Hall in Essex and Harlow Carr in North Yorkshire, last was previously owned by the Northern Horticultural Society. In London, the club or society whose RHS has Enterprises Limited two exhibition halls ( RHS Horticultural Halls ), Lindley Hall, which take place in the Elverton Street and Lawrence Hall in Greycoat Street in Chelsea, London exhibitions. Lindley Hall in typical Edwardian brick style originated in 1904 and was made in 1970 under monument protection. Lawrence Hall was built in 1925-1928 by the architects Easton and Robertson in the Art Deco style in 1983 and placed under monument protection. In the past here every two weeks horticultural exhibitions were held today, especially sporting events and conferences.
The RHS Lindley manages the Library, a library specialized in botany at the headquarters of the RHS Vincent Square in London. It is based on the collection of the botanist John Lindley.
In the past, the Royal Horticultural Society has repeatedly financed expeditions on which plants were collected and classified. One of these expeditions was the German botanist Karl Theodor Hartweg 1836-1843, in which collected many of these among other fuchsias.
Periodicals and register
Since 1866, the Royal Horticultural Society publishes a monthly journal Journal ( since 1975 The Garden ) for their members. She also publishes the quarterly magazine, The Plantsman and the bimonthly Orchid Review. Annually finally appears Hanburyana, a trade journal for taxonomy.
The RHS leads the international register for plants conifers, clematis, daffodils, dahlias, delphiniums, carnations, lilies, orchids and rhododendrons.
Position
The company now has a strong outdated membership and their representatives are considered very conservative, even if the society has tried in recent years to modernize its image.