GROWING EXHIBITION BLOOMS IO7 



Staging operations. This means the remov- 

 ing of such petals, with the aid of a pair of 

 small tweezers, as tend to make the outline 

 of the blooms irregular, and of working petals 

 to fill vacancies, the idea being to make the 

 blooms as smooth and regular as possible. 

 This operation is, fortunately, not practised 

 in America. 



When the blooms have all been placed in 

 water and labels attached, begin to arrange 

 them in each vase in such a manner that each 

 flower will show to the best advantage, as it 

 is important that all exhibits shall be thus 

 displayed. It is each exhibitor's duty not 

 only to himself but to the management to 

 do so. Much can be done in this way by 

 the exhibitors, particularly where collections 

 of different varieties are being staged. 

 While supports for blooms that can be seen 

 above the vase are not allowed, much can be 

 done to improve the appearance of a vase of 

 blooms when the receptacle happens to be 

 larger than is necessary for the number of 

 blooms that must be placed therein, as is 

 often the case, by putting a wad of paper 

 or some other material in the vase to hold 

 the stems in the desired position. The 



