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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



705 



Seedling No. 77. Raised by John E. Haines. 



seller and ticket taker are to be shunned. 

 While the writer does not intimate that 

 all are dishonest, he has met among 

 them some of the most finished rascals 

 npon the face of tlie earth and the non- 

 professional show man is a lamb in their 

 hands. 



A convenient form of ticket is tliat 

 printed in a continuous strip and 

 notched so as to be torn off readily. 

 The tickets are numbered consecutively. 

 Each strip, containing 1,000, is coiled 

 and sealed. The tickets should be ob- 

 tained from a firm making a specialty of 

 such work and preferably located in an- 

 other city to avoid leakage in the press- 

 room. The ticket seller should receipt 

 for tickets received in the morning and 

 at niglit return all unsolu tickets, with 

 a written statement of sales and cash 

 to balance. A locked box should be pro- 

 vided for the ticket taker in which to 

 deposit tickets. In closing at night the 

 treasurer should examine and count all 

 tickets in the box and personally see 

 that they are destroyed. Passes and free 

 tickets should be issued by the treas- 

 urer, on the written order of the proper 

 persons or committees. The press must 

 be taken care of, members of the society 

 are generally admitted free and exhibi- 

 tors are entitled to free admission, but 

 the is.suance of free tickets should be 

 hedged around with all possible difl!i- 

 culties, as the free list is often responsi- 

 ble for a large part of the almost uni- 

 versal deficits which result from horti- 

 cultural exhibitions. When receiving 

 cash at night at least two trustworthy 

 persons should remain with tlie treasurer 

 and accompany him until the funds are 

 put in a safe place. 



An incompetent secretary or a poor 

 system can create a deal of trouble and 

 arouse a deal of criticism. The writer 

 prefers what may be called the De La 

 Mare system of exhibition accounting as 

 being simple, speedy and accurate. It 



consists of an exhibitor's book, a class 

 ,jok, a judge's book, entry cards and 

 envelopes for them, and a set of gummed 

 labels of different colors, "1st premium," 

 "2nd premium," etc., to be attached to 

 the entry cards by the judges as they 

 complete each class. 



The exhibitor's book has a large leaf, 

 about cap size. At the top appears the 

 name of one exhibitor and his entry 

 number. In a column at the left appear 

 the numbers of all the classes in which 

 he is entered. This is copied from his 

 entry blank. In the middle space is en- 

 tered on the line with eaen class number, 

 after the judges have passed on the class, 

 the premium won; as, "first," "second," 

 etc., and in the right-hand column, which 

 is ruled for dollars and cents, is entered 

 the amount of the prize, so that when all 

 are entered a footing of that column 

 will give the total amount of his win- 

 nings. 



The class book is similar to the ex- 

 hibitor's book, except that each page is 

 devoted to one class, and in the left- 

 hand column are written the entry nmn- 

 bcrs of all persons competing in the 

 class. In the middle column is written 

 the prize won and at the right the 

 amount. The footing of each page will 

 give the total awarded under the class 

 in question, and it is evident that the 

 total footings of the class book and the 

 exhibitor's book must agree, thus mak- 

 ing an excellent check. All entries in 

 liotli books should be made from the ex- 

 hibitor's entry blank ana should be care- 

 fully checked over to insure absolute ac- 

 curacy. It is well to enter tlie amounts 

 of each premium ofl'ered at the head of 

 the page of its class. 



The judges' books are smauer and 

 have perforated pages to be used in du- 

 plicate by carbon. At the top appears 

 the class number and the total number 

 of entries in the class, and below are 

 written the awards as made, giving both 

 entry number and exhibitor's name. In 

 use, an assistant will remove the envel- 

 opes from the exhibition cards and affix 

 the pasters as instructed by the judges. 

 The .secretary or a trustworthy assistant 



Carnation Juno. — Hiincs. 



