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Fig. 5.— Front View of Pompone Dahlia. 



and fixed securely with a piece of cork. The best way of fixing the 

 blooms is to pass the stems through corks, which fit the tin tubes 

 rather tight, and then thrust the cork into the tube and the flowers 

 wnl then be unable to move in the slightest degree. In setting up 



the stands, due regard 

 must be paid to balancing 

 the colours, so as to pre- 

 serve a proper balance and 

 to bring out the colours of 

 the several sorts to the 

 best possible advantage. 

 Due regard must also be 

 paid to the size of the 

 blooms, and the largest 

 should, as far as possible 

 consistent with preserving 

 a proper balance of colours, 

 be placed in the back row, 

 and the largest in each row 

 placed towards the centre. 

 It is important that the 

 blooms should be set up in 

 stands properly made, and 

 of the regulation size. The 

 proper length of a box for 



twelve blooms is two feet ; for twenty-four blooms, four feet ; 



and in showing thirty-six blooms, a two and a four feet box should be 



used ; and for forty-eight blooms, two four-feet boxes, and so on, for 



boxes of a greater length 



than four feet will be found 



very heavy and inconvenient 



in their transmission to and 



from the exhibition tent. 



The depth should be seven 



inches at the back, three and 



a half inches in front, and the 



width should be eighteen 



inches, for both two and four 



feet boxes. Each box will 



take three rows of tubes, 



the two outside rows three 



inches from the edge of the 



box, and the middle one 



exactly down the centre. 



The tubes should be an inch 



in diameter, and placed at a 



distance of six inches apart 



from centre to centre in the rows. The cork or wooden pegs 



should, when fixed in the tubes, stand an inch and a half above the 



surface of the box to hold the blooms up in a bold manner. The 



boxes should be painted a bright deep green. 



Fig. 6. — Side View of Pom)?one Dahlia. 



