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exhibitors, who thus failed, after all their trouble, to 
have the merits of their exhibits judged. This good 
educational beginning should be maintained, for it will 
make intending exhibitors much more careful than they 
appear to be now in reading their catalogue, and atten- 
tive to the disqualifications for non-conformity with the 
conditions (of all kinds) in cases where conditions are 
prescribed. Besides not giving prizes to inferior mate- 
rial, that which is obviously bad, all plants lifted from 
the ground for the occasion, should be rejeéted at the 
staging, and removal from the Exhibition grounds in- 
sisted on. These disciplinary aids in the education of 
exhibitors, or would-be exhibitors, would I think in time 
have a beneficial effe€t, and, once they got to realise the 
absolute necessity of conformity, the rules would be care- 
fully observed by them. The Artisans’ and Labourers’ 
exhibits, taken on the whole, were commendable, leaving, 
however, much room for the improvement which we may 
fairly hope the experience of this year’s Show will bring. 
Some of the exhibitors entitled to exhibit in the Artisans’ 
and Labourers’ classes did not do so, but showed only 
with the Amateur exhibitors, thus losing the double 
chance they had of exhibiting in both, to which privilege 
their attention was specially called in the Rules on the 
back page of the Prize List, But this may have been 
due to their want of sufficient material to show in both 
seCtions. Among the Crotons exhibited in the Artisans’ 
and Labourers’ classes there were some groups of very 
good stuff, nice dwarf well-grown plants, showing on the 
part of the owners a good perception of the points re- 
quired in a prize plant, taste in variety, appreciation of 
rarity, and evidence of good cultural skill. Needless to 
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