. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 420 The American Florist. Oct. 26, Reading between the report on scoring and the addenda following the same, one is led to think that the committees either thought there were greater possibilities in the variety before them than was shown by the blooms presented, or else they were applying the test applicable to the mid-season varieties, not making any time allowance for the early appearance of the variety before the committees. Sometimes the eagerness of an origi- nator to have a new variety brought before the co
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 420 The American Florist. Oct. 26, Reading between the report on scoring and the addenda following the same, one is led to think that the committees either thought there were greater possibilities in the variety before them than was shown by the blooms presented, or else they were applying the test applicable to the mid-season varieties, not making any time allowance for the early appearance of the variety before the committees. Sometimes the eagerness of an origi- nator to have a new variety brought before the committees at the earliest possible date shadows his judgment and he cuts too soon or before the variety has had time to properly develop. This may have been the case with Opah,for certainly that is the construction that nearly everyone with whom I have con- versed has put upon the double-sided reports. I think the American Chrysan- themum Society desires that its com- mittees use a large discretion in the scoring of varieties presented before them. To my mind very early flowering varieties should have a time allow- ance granted them, for it is mani- festly unfair to apply the scale as to size to the extra early varieties that governs in scaling the mid-season varieties. Perhaps the gentlemen constituting the committees did not feel warranted in construing their instructions to grant allowance in the matter of eatliness of bloom. One thing is evident, there must be a wise discrttion allowed to com- mittees to make variance where such action commends itself to their notice and judgment. The judging by a scale of points is more nearly exact than any other method heretofore employed and the results have been such as to satisfy most people inclined to be reasonable. It would seem as if there could be no hard and fast rule laid down that should absolutely govern in every case presented before the chrysanthemum society's com- mittees. Perhaps if another class was made for varieties flo
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