GROWING EXHIBITION BLOOMS IO9 



good taste should be displayed in placing 

 the colours for the best effect. 



In England there are a great many blooms 

 exhibited on what are known as "boards." 

 This method of exhibiting is but little used 

 in America. The arrangement is to provide 

 a small platform, 18 x 24 inches, made so 

 that the back is six inches high and the front 

 three inches. In this are bored twelve holes, 

 three from front to back, and four from end 

 to end, at equal distances. These holes are 

 fitted with tin tubes for holding water, which 

 have a spiral groove. Another tube without a 

 bottom and having a funnel-shaped top, 

 with a spiral ridge fitting into the groove of 

 the larger tube, is used. The blooms are 

 placed in the smaller tube and the stem is 

 wedged fast; then the small tube is placed in 

 position in the larger one, and, by means of 

 the spiral arrangement, can be placed at any 

 desired height. This method has never been 

 popular in this country, although the man- 

 agers of many exhibitions include one or two 

 small classes for it in their schedules. 



The showing of blooms with long stems is 

 the popular method of exhibiting in America, 

 ^nd when vases of from twenty-five to one 



