1452 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



exhibition j the statement to be signed by the exhibitor as a declaration of 

 its correctness. 



Every exhibitor will be required to sign a printed assurance, that every 

 article exhibited is bona fide his own growth. 



No subject for exhibition shall be admitted into tbe garden after half- 

 past nine o'clock in the morning ; and if the owners of any locked-up boxes, 

 or other cases already received, should not be in the exhibition tent at the 

 said hour, such cases or boxes must be excluded from competition for the 

 medals. 



All specimens whether of fruit or flowers will remain untouched until after 

 six o'clock, when they will be delivered into the hands of the exhibitors, 

 who are requested not to give away their cut flowers in the tents, as much 

 conlusion has occasionally been produced by that practice. 



Provision will be made by the Society for placing on the table such speci- 

 mens as may be furnished by the exhibitors; but as some flowers travel most 

 securely when fixed permanently in boxes, and as many persons prefer their 

 own stands, it has been determined that any exhibitors may use their own 

 boxes or stands, under the following conditions : 



No box or stand shall exceed eight inches in height at the back, or eigh- 

 teen inches in depth from front to back. The lids of all boxes must either 

 be loose, or made to unhinge, No box with a fixed lid will, on any pretence, 

 be allowed to stand upon the tables. If a box not constructed of the di- 

 mensions above given is sent in, it may be placed on the tables if there is 

 room for it, but it is liable to exclusion, 



JUDGES. 



The Council being of opinion that, with reference to the Judges and to 

 the manner of making the award, the regulations which have been adopted 

 for the last two years, are upon the whole, the best that can be devised for 

 securing a good and impartial decision, intend that they shall continue to 

 be exactly observed. 



Two sets of Judges are appointed by the Council, and from their decision 

 there is no appeal One set consists of practical gardeners, distinguished 

 both lor their knowledge of their profession, and their high characters as in- 

 dependent unbiassed men ; the other set consists of amateurs, all or part of 

 whom may be members of the Council. The first set must, in all cases, 

 constitute the majority of Judges, 



The judges have the power of increasing or diminishing the number of 

 medals offered by the Society for particular objects, and also of conferring 

 medals in cases not contemplated by these regulations, if they think it de- 

 sirable to do so. 



The only absolute directions which the judges receive from the Council 

 are, firstly, to bear in mind that the Society's medals are offered, not only 

 for new and curious objects, but for remarkable objects of horticultural skill, 

 the design of the Council in instituting these meetings, being not merely to 

 encourage the collector, but rather to reward the success of the skilful gar- 

 dener : and secondly, not to make any award in cases where the objects ex- 

 hibited do not appear worthy of a medal, otherwise a bad single exhibition 

 may obtain a prize, merely because there is no better exhibition of the same 

 class to oppose it. 



When the objects are arranged upon the table, every exhibition is marked 

 with a letter and a number, which refer to a private list, and every possible 

 precaution is taken to prevent the Judges knowing from whence the exhi- 

 bitions come The Judges are introduced into the tents, and the proper 

 officer explains to them the general nature of the exhibitions, confining him- 

 self, however, to the mere indication of the parts of the tents in which par- 

 ticular classes of exhibitions are situated, or to matters of a similar nature. 

 The two sets of Judges form their opinions independently of each other. 

 When they have come to separate decisions they quit the tent, and adjourn 

 to the Council room, where they compare notes, and settle to what letter and 



