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The person best suited to act as superintendent or manager should be 

 selected and have full charge of all materials pertaining to the exhibition 

 irom the first day until the hall is vacated. From the schedule and entries 

 received he will know about how much space will be necessary for the 

 various classes, and if wise will study the hall carefully, mapping out 

 where each class and group shall be staged. It will also be his duty, un- 

 less left to a committee, to provide suitable tables and vases and other 

 requisites necessary. The vases should be of suitable size to accommo- 

 date the various classes, but should be uniform in each specific class, so 

 one exhibitor has no advantage over another. These should be filled and 

 if possible placed ready for use, on or before the opening day to avoid con- 

 fusion and delay. 



Provide new features each year, as the public are constantly looking 

 for something novel. 



Pre-arrangement is an important factor to well conducted exhibitions. 

 Details that can be arranged prior to the opening will save the manager 

 much anxiety at the last moment, and whatever facilitates his work will 

 assist the exhibitor and the task of judging will be less laborious. 



The Judge In selecting a judge it should be a person having suffi- 

 cient experience to be fully competent, and whose honor and integrity 

 are above reproach. One to three judges are the number generally used, 

 sometimes in large exhibitions where there are many classes to consider, a 

 greater number are pressed into service and divided into sets, each set 

 being allotted certain classes. When so arranged the awards are made 

 with the least possible delay. 



The Chrysanthemum Society of America has adopted scales for judg- 

 ing which define the important qualifications to be considered in the var- 

 ious classes. They are as follows : 



Scale of points for bush plants and standards. 



Equality of size and form of plant. _ 40 



Excellence of bloom 35 



Foliage 25 



Total . _ 100 



Scale of points for plants grown to single stem and one bloom. A 

 height of not over three feet is recommended for plants in this class, and 

 pots not over six inches in diameter. 



Excellence of bloom 40 



Compact, sturdy growth 35 



Foliage . 25 



Total . _ 100 



