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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4021, 17 November 1881, Page 2

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Siß.—Can jrou inform ma whether it is customary at a Flower: Show, given to raise funds for a charitable purpose, for exhibitors to think only of the prizes they can secure, and for lady exhibitors to indulge in a tirade of abuse (not tied with a string) against the judges, because the awards don't go exactly as these ladies deem right? But perhaps they imagine they are aiding the cause by affording another exhibition (quite distinct from the flowers) by rushing about and vehementally calling the attention of ail beholders to their own special bunch of flowers or' over grown bouquet, which, they of course think ought to have had the first -prize. .Do these demonstrative ladies think the judges were hankering after the billet, or petitioned for' the appointment, or that they would not have gladly resigned the task to these same infallibles, who no doubt would have been able to give, perfect satisfaction to every one ? Let us hope next year they will have an opportunity of displaying their ability, for it is said that lady judges are then to be appointed.—l am, &c, Gbound Fioobeb.