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instead of the stalks being led into wet sand or water, a number of little 

 specimen glasses held them mounted up in the basket in which they were 

 supposed to be. This also shared the same fate. The year before, at a 

 show in Hertfordshire, some very lovely tall vases had to be disqualified 

 because they exceeded the 18 inches in height laid down in the rules. A 

 foot-rule is part of a judge's stock-in-trade, and almost as necessary as 

 a spike is in a walking-stick to a mountain climber. 



In conclusion, I would ask you who grow flowers to grow them for 

 the love of them, and not alone as decorations for your tables or your 

 persons. Decorate your tables because you love the flowers, and with 

 reverent gratitude to Him " Whose breath perfumes them, and Whose 

 pencil paints." 



