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The fact amounts to simply this ; the more people you get inter- 

 ested in such matters, the more influence you exert and the greater the 

 attendance. When we can get our counties to take hold of this matter, 

 through their county courts we will get the influence of many of our 

 best producers, and we will see the money ready to pay for all such 

 shows. 



I shall be glad to see this change in our premium lists, and also in 

 our way of exhibiting. We all dislike to see the petty jealousies which 

 are often awakened by the vain competition, and especially between 

 different counties of the same state. 



I hope to sec a change in all this order and see the time when in 

 all our horticultural shows, each man will do his best, and each county 

 will use every effort to make just the very best showing of their products 

 it is possible to make and there will be no competition, only such as the 

 general public will place on each display as they view it. It will save 

 a lot of worry and ill feeling and give much more satisfaction in the 

 end. 



In the displays made by our florists, I believe this, by far, the best 

 plan. I would take a certain amount of money and divide it among 

 them and tell them to make the very best show they can possibly do, 

 and put their signs up, over it; thus giving them the best advertisement 

 they can possibly get, causing no ill feeling and no competition, and 

 leaving each one of the visitors to draw their own conclusion. 



COMPETITION OR EXHIP>1TI0N. 



This is what we want to know. Is it best to have the hot, grab-all 

 competition we so often see in our Fairs, or should our shows be made 

 a harmonious whole by some systematic, judicious plan of arrangement 

 and decoration .-' 



If our Fairs would make every possible arrangement and give every 

 possible convenience for our displays, using some of the money now giv- 

 en for premiums, for a.ssistance in the displays, it would be a better thing 

 for both the " Fairs" and the exhibitors. 



Let our displays be exhibitions of horticultural products, rather 

 than competitive shows. 



Let the money be given, and given more liberally, for this purpose 

 by the " Fairs," and by our county courts, purely for an exhibition, when 

 it is to be made as a whole ; and only for individual premiums on fruits, 

 vegetables and flowers. 



