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on boards. For six blooms, the board must be 1 1 ins. 

 long and 9^ ins. wide. 



ROSES 



Unless otherwise directed by the Schedule, Roses are 

 staged in boxes. Obviously the size of the boxes differs 

 with the number of blooms to be shown, but the 

 National Rose Society rules that all boxes shall be 

 4 ins. high in front and 1 8 ins. wide. In the matter of 

 length the dimensions are : 



For 24 blooms, 3 ft. 6 ins. long. 

 For 1 8 blooms, 2 ft. 9 ins. long. 

 For 12 blooms, 2 ft. long. 

 For 9 blooms, I ft. 6 ins. long. 

 For 6 blooms, I ft. long. 



SWEET PEAS 



Apart from Floral arrangements, Sweet Peas should 

 always be shown in vases, and where the management 

 provides the vases either free or at a small fee, these 

 should be of stoneware, and coloured green. Glass 

 vases are more elegant, but they are costly, and the risk 

 of breakage is great. 



The National Sweet-Pea Society suggests that an 

 ideal bunch of Sweet Peas, in the vases supplied by the 

 Society (7 ins. high, and 2 J ins. wide at the mouth), con- 

 sists of twenty sprays, and, unless otherwise specified, 

 more than twenty sprays will disqualify. 



STOCKS 



Stocks are exhibited in various ways, but a very 

 common and excellent method is that of staging the 

 whole plant root, branch, and flower. With the root 

 in water, and hidden from view by the green earthen- 

 ware vase, stocks are very effective, but the appearance 

 of six or twelve specimens suffers considerably when the 



