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able loss to the general effe€tiveness of the exhibit. The 
colleétion attra€ted much attention from visitors inter- 
ested in pot plant culture, Each group had a conspicu- 
ously placed printed ticket describing its charaéter, and 
each plant its botanical name attached. 
T, SYDNEY HARGREAVES, 
Vice-Chairman, Committee of Correspondence. 
REPORT OF THE JUDGES IN CLASSES E AND F. 
As in the preceding year, a great increase in the 
Class E had taken place, but this increase, we regret to 
say, was almost entirely confined to this point, little or no 
improvement being noticeable in the qualities of the 
articles exhibited. 
CLass E.—ECONOMIC PRODUCTS. 
Section 1.—Open to Amateur Exhibitors. — 
125. Coffee, cleaned.—-There were thirteen entries for 
this article. The exhibit was not up to the standard of 
the preceding year either as regards colour or cleaning. 
A good sample of peaberry coffee was sent which received 
the first prize. We would again impress upon cultivators 
that it is pra€tically useless to produce other than high 
grade coffee for export purposes, and that for this, coffee 
must be of good colour, perfe€tly clean and even in size 
of the bean, and that the presence of broken beans must 
be avoided. 
126, Liberian Coffee.—Only three exhibitors com-. 
peted. A sample from the Onderneeming Reformatory 
was far in advance of the others in every way, it was of 
fair colour, excellently cleaned and even in charaéter. 
127. Cacao Beans, cured.—Six competitors only, The 
exhibit was if anything inferior to that of 1896. The 
