HINTS ON EXHIBITING. 
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Martin,” with its bushy character of growth, made a most 
remarkable display. 
Exhibiting Single and Pompon Flowers. — The 
single-flowered sorts and the Pompons, too, are particularly 
charming when exhibited in partially disbudded sprays. 
These pretty flowers when too rigidly disbudded are some- 
what formal, and less likely to please one with their display 
than when only partially disbudded. At all times observe 
the same rule of setting them up loosely in bunches, that 
their decorative traits may be amply illustrated, and their 
value for decorative uses clearly exemplified. 
Always make a rule to gather the sprays with long flower 
stems, so that a dumpy arrangement may be avoided, and 
that grace and elegance in their display may be better 
brought about. Long stems invariably help one in making 
an artistic disposition of the flowers ; it is astonishing what 
an effect the seemingly careless adjustment of such flowers 
will bring about in a decorative exhibit. Always see that 
the flowers are true to colour, and never put in one vase 
pale flowers and well-coloured flowers of the same variety. 
There should be absolute consistency, otherwise the exhibit 
will most assuredly lose points in competition with those 
where this rule is observed. 
With the foregoing remarks it is hoped that exhibitors 
may gain some information as to how exhibits of the out- 
door and the decorative kinds may be represented at 
their best. Much, however, must be left to individual 
initiative. 
