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should now be “pointed,” ze. judged by points. 
Minus one, nought, one, two, three, or in rare:cases 
four points should be awarded to each bloom, 
according to merit, one of the judges suggesting 
the number of points to each, the others assenting 
or dissenting and one noting the number of points 
totalled. 
The first thing to be done is to choose and agree 
upon a certain Rose worth three points to serve as 
a standard. This is important: being useful not 
only for reference in cases of disagreement, but also 
in the large classes of forty-eight or seventy-two 
to prevent the standard becoming insensibly depre- 
ciated. Pointing generally begins with the back 
row and from left to right: boxes are often set up 
in the same order, and the exhibitor would naturally 
put his worst blooms in last, which would therefore 
be at the right hand of the lower row. At any 
rate, considerably smaller and weaker blooms will 
generally be found in the front row, and the judges 
must take care that their standard remains un- 
altered ; the fall in the scale is often very gradual, 
but a frequent reference to the chosen standard, 
which one of the judges should carry in its 
tube, will prevent any lowering or raising of the 
ideal. 
In cases of equality, or when in a large class only 
a point or two of difference is found between two 
stands, it is well to “point”? them over again, 
beginning at the other end of each.. If still there 
is little difference, taking the boxes down and 
holding them with thew long sides touching, in 
closer juxtaposition, will sometimes throw additional 
light on the matter. Comparing each bloom with 
