408 Management of Horticultural Exhibitions. 



to the advancement of horticultural pursuits in the safest and 

 surest manner, but, notwithstanding, we trust it will not be 

 regarded as presumptuous in us, if we now venture to offer 

 a few suggestions applicable to these most useful institutions. 

 It may be that our hints are not as pertinent as they should 

 be, and perhaps they might have been more elaborately put 

 together, yet, such as they are, we hope they may turn out 

 profitable, and lead to improvement and the correction of er- 

 ror wherever it shall be foand to exist. 



It will without doubt be admitted, that, in all societies and 

 their exhibitions, certain points require j^articnlar attention. 

 It will also not be denied, that every society is equally affect- 

 ed by certain rules or regulations. Nor is it to be disputed, 

 that there is one right way, and fifty wrong ways to perform 

 or set about performing every thing. With these declara- 

 tions, we will now venture to lay down a few rules as plainly 

 as we can, which, in our opinion, should govern aU socie- 

 ties : — 



First. — Competition should be invited in offering induce- 

 ments for the production of such subjects as will materially 

 add to the attractions of an exhibition, and further the ad- 

 vancement of the science. 



Second. — Independent of their attractiveness, all subjects 

 should be in season, or, with those who have the convenien- 

 ces, capable of being forced out of season. 



Third.— The number or quantity required should be con- 

 sistent with the means usually at the command of all ordi- 

 nary establishments ; that is, for the sake of the exhibition 

 and for competition, as large as can be produced convenient- 

 ly, — not larger. 



Fourth. — The quantity or number should be arbitrary in 

 all cases, that all should be equal in their respective classes. 



Fifth. — Those properties or qualities which the society es- 

 timates the highest, in every article exhibited, should be dis- 

 tinctly made known, so that exhibitors may clearly under- 

 stand what they have to aim at in the cultivation of their 

 productions. 



Sixth.— 'ThexQ should not be permitted any competition in 

 two classes with the same articles, or subjects of the same 

 genera. 



