The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 433
he entrance (Jig. 159. a),and were carried forward immediately by some of the com-mittee, to thestage (b), andplaced in theirproper places.At 11 oclockthe door wasclosed, and noone permittedto be in theroom, except the committee and the judge, who then commenced selectingfrom the first class of… … This operation was 420 Flower Stage of Lancaster Horticultural Society. 160 repeated till the whole were gone through. Then the labelswere opened, and the clerk, who sat at one end (d) of theside table, wrote down the name of the owner, and the nameof the flower, with the prize adjudged, on a card,…