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pips forming the head are small, medium, or large, 

 they ought to be as near as possible equal in size, as 

 in the accompanying woodcut, which shews a perfect 



truss. Nothing looks more awkward than to have 

 some of the pips twice the size of others, or to have 

 some expanded three or four days, or a week, whilst 

 others are comparatively buds. A fine contour (if 

 we may so express it) is indispensable for a first-rate 

 truss. 



Size may be the fifth point for judges to consider. 

 Generally speaking, moderately grown pips *come' 

 (in florists' phraseology) the truest and best ; but, of 

 course, a large flower will always be preferred to a 

 small one, the other properties being equal. 



Mode of Exhibition. — They are usually exhibited 



