Transactions at the Annual Meeting. 11 



Appleton, Wis., January 28, 1881. 

 President Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, 



Dear Sir: — At a meeting of the Grand Chute Horticultural Society held 

 last evening, I was authorized, as secretary, to invite the State Horticultural 

 Society to hold a summer meeting in Appleton in June next. Hoping this 

 will receive courteous recognition, I am 



Yery respectfully yours, Mrs. D. Huntley, 



Secretary. 



Consideration was postponed until there was a larger attend- 

 ance, and that other applications might be made. 



Instructions to Judges. — Mr. Plumb called attention to the 

 fact that our own was about the only State Horticultural Society 

 that had not adopted a set of rules governing its exhibitions and 

 also a scale of points and instructions to be considered by the 

 judges in passing on the merits of articles on exhibition. He 

 thought we ought to take some action on this subject. 



It was stated that as the society had no longer any connection 

 with the state fair, there was now no special necessity for these 

 rules and scale of points. 



In reply to this, the secretary remarked, that on account of the 

 society's relation to the local societies and the horticultural inter- 

 ests of the state, it was advisable that such rules and instructions 

 should be adopted, even if not needed in its own exhibitions. 

 They would be used by the county and local societies and would 

 enable the judges to do their work more easily and help to make 

 their awards more in accordance with real merit. Now many are 

 called upon to act as judges who are little acquainted with the ar- 

 ticles to be passed upon, and do not know the points to be consid- 

 ered in judging, and being governed by their taste or fancy often 

 get wide of the mark. It is not necessary or best to have such 

 elaborate rules and instructions as have been adopted by some 

 eastern societies, but it would be well to give the main points that 

 are to be considered, and to give them in the order of their im- 

 portance, and leave the judges free to arrive at their decision on 

 these points in any way they please. Aside from this, it was to be 

 hoped that the results of the present exhibition would be such as 

 to make them a part of our regular winter meeting, and in such 

 case, we should need the rules ourselves. 

 !£Mr. Plumb stated that no committee on premium list had been 



