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Ooleus ; in each case the plants showed a distinct difference of colour. 

 The word " distinct " may in some quarters have gained the specialized 

 meaning of " distinct kinds," but the wording of such a class is, to say 

 the least, ambiguous. It is obviously open to question whether 

 " distinct kinds " or distinct varieties " is meant. The addition of 

 either of the two words would have avoided all doubt and made the 

 competition fair. 



Before leaving the words " kind " and " variety," may I point 

 out that the rule allowing a mixture of colour for annuals no longer 

 applies to Sweet Peas. This flower having been so highly specialized 

 of recent years the Sweet Pea Society has decided to require only one 

 variety in a bunch, unless it be stated in the Schedule that the colours 

 may be mixed. 



6. The following three c^ses refer to Foliage : 



(1) " Own foliage." A class required flowers to be shown " with 

 OWN FOLIAGE." This means foliage cut from the same plant or same 

 variety of plant as that which bore the bloom, the object being to show 

 the characteristics of the foliage of the particular variety shown. For 

 example, if ' Gloire de Dijon ' Eose with own foliage was asked for, all 

 the foliage must have been cut either from actually the same plant or 

 plants as the blooms have come from, or from other ' Gloire de Dijon"' 

 Eoses. If foliage of ' La France ' or of * Marie van Houtte ' or of any 

 other variety s^ve * Gloire de Dijon ' were used, the exhibit would of 

 course be disqualified. Or if a particular Carnation or a particular 

 Sweet Pea " with own foliage " were asked for, the only foliage used 

 must have come from plants of the particular variety of Carnation or 

 Sweet Pea named ; but it need not have come from the identical pliants 

 from which the blossoms shown were gathered — all that is required 

 being that the blossoms and the foliage shall both be of the variety 

 asked for and of none other. (2) " Any foliage " or " Added 

 FOLIAGE " means that foliage of plants other than that of the flowers 

 may be mixed with them. An exhibitor in an " added foliage " class 

 staged Sweet Peas, and for foliage used that of Everlasting Peas. 

 He was fully justified in doing so, for the Schedule allowed any foliage j 

 and excluded none; but he had the misfortune to be unfairly disquali- 

 fied. (3) Gypsophila. Gypsophila is not fohage, but is a flower; 

 and therefore a class requiring or permitting any or added foliage is | 

 not satisfied by using Gypsophila. A class permitting it should say i 

 distinctly, Gypsophila allowed with, or instead of, other foliage." 



7. " Herbaceous. " 



Schedule-makers cannot too closely adhere to Eules 180 and 197 

 concerning herbaceous exhibits, and judges cannot know them too 

 accurately. For example, I was once asked to say whether Montbretia 

 and Seedling Pinks are allowable in the following class : ' ' The best 

 nine bunches of Herbaceous Cut Flowers — not less than six 



SPECIMENS. No bulbous ALLOWED." I 



