The English Court Journal says: "To trace the advent of these elaborate decorations we must go back some fourteen years, when Sir Edward Scott had the first grand floral ball at his mansion in Grosvenor Square. The order to a well-known florist was that he (Sir Edward) wished his to be the handsomest ball of the season, and that he would place his house in the hands of the florist for three days to do as he liked, regardless of expense. The decorations caused a perfect furore., and it was the means of entirely revolutionizing the style of artistic decoration not only in London, but in every part of the United Kingdom, and, indeed, the whole of Europe and America. What Sir Edward did then to gratify and please his friends for a few hours has been a lasting and continually increasing incentive to the cultivation of flowers, and a great benefit to many thousands of his fellow creatures. It was the great incentive to the cultivation of flowers - a source of pleasure which conveyed a gleam of sunshine into millions of homes, and which has enabled many thousands to earn an honest living, creating within themselves a better life, and diffusing its beneficent influence o'er all around."