156 THE GRAND FLORAL EXHIBITIONS 



request exhibitors will notify in writing, previous to the day of meet- 

 ing, what plants they intend to 'supply, in order that due provision 

 may be made for the proper distribution of the specimens on the 

 tables. As it is necessary that the judges should proceed to consider 

 the respective merits of the exhibitions by 10 am., and as it is 

 absolutely indispensable that the tables should be arranged by that 

 time, it has been determined that no subject for exhibition shall be 

 admitted into the garden after half-past 8 o'clock in the morning; 

 and if the owners of any locked-up or other cases should not be in 

 the exhibition tent at the said hour, such cases or boxes must be 

 excluded from competition. All specimens will remain untouched 

 until after 6 o'clock, when they will be delivered into the hands of 

 the exhibitors. Exhibitors of cut flowers must supply their own 

 boxes or stands. No box or stand should exceed 8 inches in height 

 at the back, or 18 inches in depth from front to back : the lids of all 

 boxes must either be loose, or made to unhinge. The society distri- 

 butes the following rewards, namely : — 



d. 



0, or the large gold medal. 

 0, or the gold Knightian medal. 

 0, or the gold Banksian medal. 

 0, or the large silver gilt medal. 

 0, or the large silver medal. 

 0, or the silver Knightian medal. 

 0, or the silver Banksian medal. 

 0, or the Certificate. 



Exhibitors to whom any of these shall be awarded may receive 

 their value in money or in plate. If in case an exhibitor shall 

 receive a first prize in any one class of plants, he shall not be entitled 

 to receive any other in the same class. 



Names fairly written are to be attached by exhibitors to all florist's 

 flowers, and the judges are restrained from awarding any medal to 

 such exhibitions, whatever their merit may be, if this regulation is 

 not complied with. By florist's flowers are meant not only flowers 

 usually so named, but also Fuchsias, Pelargoniums, Roses, and Cal- 

 ceolarias. It is also hoped that all other subjects of exhibition will be 

 neatly and legibly labelled with their names. The judges have the 



