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be eligible for membership who disposes of plants, flowers, seeds, 

 or trades in garden produce for profit, or is in the employ of a 

 nurseryman or gardener, or is employed as a gardener." 

 Occasional help from a labourer in digging, wheeling, or similar 

 rough work is allowed.* All other actual cultural work this 

 type of amateur must do with his own hands. By some societies 

 a person is not allowed to exhibit in the amateur classes if he 

 has the aid of any paid assistance, directly or indirectly, 

 in working his garden. Whatever the show regulations may 

 be, they must be strictly complied with. 



An admirable example of amateurs of the first class is found 

 in the President of the Koyal Horticultural Society, Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart., who has sought unweariedly for a number of 

 years, by precept and by example, to create interest in and to 

 advance the prosperity of British gardening. A worthy specimen 

 of the second class is afforded by Mr. Alfred Lewis, of Beckenham, 

 who is employed daily in London from 9 a.m to 7 p.m. ; yet he 

 trenches with his own hands all the available parts of his 

 garden in the autumn by lamplight, and won fifty-three prizes 

 in 1897, also the silver medal as the most successful amateur 

 exhibitor at the great co-operative festival show held at the 

 Crystal Palace in August of the same year. 



Terms and Difficulties. 



There are four terms commonly employed in the classifica- 

 tion of schedules — namely, "kinds," "sorts," "species," and 

 " varieties." It is not too much to say that many (though not all) 

 compilers of schedules and framers of classes have no clear con- 

 ception of the meaning and significance of these terms. That 

 being so, it is not to be wondered at that far larger numbers of 

 exhibitors have hazy ideas as to their interpretation. Moreover, 

 this haziness has many times extended to judges. Thoroughly 

 good gardeners they may be, but they have not closely studied 

 the meaning of all the terms with which they come in contact. 



It is highly important for framers of schedules, exhibitors, 

 and judges to clearly understand the relative significance of the 

 governing terms employed in defining the classes. 



* When the terms " occasional help" and " similar rough work" cannot 

 be satisfactorily defined, either the " no paid assistance " principle must 

 govern or special conditions framed to meet local peculiarities and require- 

 ments. 



