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Postage stamp Belgian 10 centimes N ° 420 issue year 1935. Addressed to Mr Louis van Dijk Station 2 Bree Limburg From Isidoor Maria Antoinette The Ghent Floralies (or Royal Society for Agriculture and Botany of Ghent) is a five-yearly organized exhibition of flowers and plants in the spring in the city of Ghent. The first Floralies were organized on February 6, 1809 in the inn room of Au Jardin de Frascati on the Coupure in Ghent. The hall was barely 48 m² in size. There were many rare plants before that time, because they just had flowers in the winter period. There was also a kind of competition with prizes for the most beautiful plants. Erica triflora won the medal of encouragement and Camellia japonica and Cyclamen persicum also received honorable mention. Due to the success of this first edition, a summer exhibition was held in the same Au Jardin de Frascati from June 29 to July 2 of 1809. 137 plants were exhibited. The first prize went to Plumeria floribunda, which received a silver commemorative medal. For the winter exhibition of 1810, the Au Jardin de Frascati became too small and they moved to a party hall in the Korte Meer, the hall was called Sodaliteit and was located near the Kouter. The exhibition took place from 6 to 9 February and 243 plants were exhibited. The summer exhibition of June 29, 1810 took place in the same room as the winter exhibition. Meanwhile, innkeeper Lanckman of Au Jardin de Frascati had moved to another location in Holstraat where he opened Le jardin botanique (later Hof van Flora, now HTISA). The winter exhibition of January 6, 1811 took place at this location. In 1835, the Casino of Ghent was built where an exhibition was held twice a year until 1908. Then the exhibition moved to a new building, the floraliënpaleis, in the Citadel Park. Finally, from 1990 it was exhibited in Flanders Expo. The last Floralies took place from April 16 to 25, 2010. Ambroise Verschaffelt (1825-1886) became vice president of the Floralies for a long time. The next edition will be in 2016. It will be a renewed concept whereby Flanders Expo in Sint-Denijs-Westrem will be left. The exhibition returns to Ghent with an indoor and outdoor event, whereby certain parts - in between the exhibitions - can remain permanent. Already in 2013, the Royal Society for Agriculture and Botany of Ghent, chaired by Michel Vermaerke, started the preparatory negotiations with the city council
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