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consider, as its realisation is based on pounds, shillings 
and pence. I pass but few comments on the merits of 
the exhibits in this tent, as I was not officially concerned 
in it, and full detailed reports on the individual exhibits 
will be furnished to the Committee by the Judges of the 
respeétive Classes. There is one remark, however, that 
I may venture on without trenching on this duty of the 
Judges, and that is, how much the people have to learn 
of the great extent a sample gains in not only popular 
but commercial estimation and appreciation by attention 
toits sele€tion, get-up and finish in preparing it for show, , 
or market. There were samples in the Economic Classes 
of excellent quality, which if put on the market in the 
state they were shown would have realised only about 
half their intrinsic value owing to this negle& of atten- 
tion to the details of general and uniform preparation 
and finish. In fa& this negle€t was so general that there 
were few samples exhibited on which a demonstration of 
what they might and ought to have been like could not 
have been given there and then. There were a few, how- 
ever, well sampled and prepared, that would compare 
favourably with the best exhibited at any of the Shows 
held during recent years. Of presenting the more rapidly 
perishable kitchen-garden vegetables, such as salad, 
seasoning (pot herbs) and culinary material generally, 
displayed in suitable vessels harmonizing one withanother, 
it might be in contrast, in water, none of the exhibitors 
seemed to have had the slightest idea. This, as on all 
previous occasions, was one of the weak points in the 
vegetable exhibits. 
Now, after the very considerable labour and sacrifice 
of time and personal interests of the Secretary and 
