Exhibition Judges Exhibition Judges Clinic IIIClinic III

The Refresher

Clinic III – Exhibition Judges’ Refresher Training Clinic

Review 30 minJudges' ResponsibilitiesEthicsJudging Standards and Organization

1) AHS Major Awards 2) AHS Standard System of Awards3) AHS Special Horticulture Awards

Review Point Scoring (Figure 9 & 10)15 min

Best-in-Show Ballot (p. 27) 10 min

Master Panel Service (p.39) 10 min

Recent Changes (See AHS Portal/website)5 min

Open Forum 45 min

Review of Clinic I & II – 30 Min

• Responsibilities and Requirements

• Ethics of Judging

• Awards

Responsibilities and Requirements

• Hold current membership in AHS • Know, grow, & show typical CVs from all

classes, areas – visit many gardens• Be familiar with as many CVs as possible • Encourage new judges and new growers • Improve own judging skills • Attend and support clinics • Promote daylilies & encourage youth • Own and be familiar with handbook

Ethics of Judging

• Be on best behavior.

• Judge own show only in emergency.

• Don’t judge in unaccredited shows.

• Accept invitations if possible and respond promptly.

• Follow show schedule and other show official instructions.

• Tell others on panel if you don't know CV.

AHS Awards

• AHS Standard System of Awards

• AHS Major Awards (including Best In Show Ballot)

• AHS Special Horticulture Awards– AHS Achievement Medal– Ophelia Taylor Horticultural Award

AHS Judging Standards and Organization

• Must employ the AHS standards • At least 3 exhibition judges per panel (2 • senior)• Judges’ panel is final authority• Classification Chairman may disqualify

entries or correct classification errors –TACT – mark misnamed entries “misnamed”

• Use appropriate AHS scale of points and AHS Std. System of Awards

AHS Major Awards

• Purple Award

• AHS Rosette - best purple in mandatory sections

• Best in Show – does not include special medal classes

• Sweepstakes Award

AHS Standard System of Awards(p. 34)

For Name Classes• One Blue - 90 or more 95• One Red - 85 or more 92• One Yellow - 80 or more 89

For Seedlings • Each entry is judged on own merit

AHS Major Awards

•Special horticulture award sections and local on-scape sections are not eligible for AHS rosettes

•Must judge both on-scape and off-scape if asked

AHS Major Awards Purple Award and Best-in-Section,

part A

• In a name class, the Purple Award (Rosette) is awarded to the highest scoring entry whose score is 95 pts. or greater

• For determining the Best-in-Section, a post-it bearing the point score (calculated to 1 point) is affixed to the entry tag

• The highest scoring interim score receives the section rosette

AHS Major Awards Purple Award and Best-in-Section,

part B

• Ties broken by re-judging perhaps using a finer interval

• All post-its are then removed

• If the rosette section has been judged by more than one panel, the whole set of purples is re-judged by a special panel

AHS Point Scoring System – 15 Min (Demonstration if in season)

• Registered CVs– Scapes– Off-Scape Blooms

• Seedling Scapes

Special Notes

• Proliferations– Leave them on– No deduction if the prolif. does not distract

from the overall beauty of the exhibit– Minor deduction for removal

• 36” Rule – no longer required, merely suggested

Judging Registered Daylilies on Scape

• True to CV – give full credit

• If quality being judged falls short of “true to CV”, points are deducted

• Use AHS descriptors found in Figure 9 of the handbook'• Don’t expect a CV to do what it cannot do

Scale of Points for RegisteredOn-Scape CV’s

• Flower 50Color 10Form 10Texture 10Substance 10Size as to CV 10

• Scape 35 Harmonious relationship to

flower, height and strength 15 Buds 10 Branching 10

• Condition and Grooming 15

Judging Seedling Daylilies on Scape

• To encourage CV’s superior to those currently in commerce

• Cannot be judged by “true to CV”

25 points for distinction

• Use AHS descriptors found in Figure 9 of the handbook and guidelines for

judging distinction found in Figure 10

Scale of Points for On-scape Seedling CVs

• Distinction 25Different from and superior to other CVs

• Flower 40Color 10Form 10Texture 10Substance 10

• Scape 30 Harmonious relationship to

flower, height and strength 10 Buds 10 Branching 10

• Condition and Grooming 5

Scale of Points for Registered, Individual Blooms Off-Scape

• Form 20

• Texture 20

• Substance 20

• Color 20

• Size according to CV 10

• Condition 10

Best-in-Show Judging

• MUST use Best-in-Show Ballot

• Record subtraction from 100 to nearest 0.5

• All judges fill out a ballot unless judging ethics suggest not

• Ballots unsigned (secret)

• Tabulation Committee tabulates the ballots

Best-in-Show Ballot

Best-in-Show Tabulation

• The tabulation committee assists the show chairman in tabulating the Best in Show ballots

• The individual totals are copied onto the tabulation sheets

• The Best-in-Show computer program may be used

• See page 72 of the handbook for example

AHS Achievement Medal

• Three senior Exhibition Judges• Judge only entries worthy of consideration• Judge individually without discussing• Specific scores neither announced or

discussed by judges or show officials• Never state personal opinion about entry • Seedling scale of points• Scores of at least 2 judges average 90 pts

or more

AHS Special Award Ophelia Taylor Hort. Award

• Three senior Exhibition Judges• Use special score sheets• Judge individually without discussing• Specific scores neither announced or discussed

by judges or show officials• Five different CVs or seedlings• Class 1 – use registered CV scale of points • Class 2 – use seedling scale of points• Lowest score must be 95 pts or better for each

scape

Master Panel (Slide 1 of 2)

• One or two panels may be used • Panel – 3 Sr Judges or 2 Sr Judges & 1 Jr Judge

• Three named CV scapes, three seedling scapes

• One score sheet for named CV scapes and one for seedlings

• Panel collaborates to get consensus on scores and descriptive comments – no comment boxes blank

• MUST use descriptive words of “merits” and “faults”in Figure 9 of the handbook

Master Panel (Slide 2 of 2)

• Register as MP on Student Registration Sheet• Senior judges get accreditation extended four

years from the current year• Junior judges get credit toward becoming a senior

judge• Junior judges are urged to serve on a master

panel – important part of training

Recent Changes - 2005

• Ophelia Taylor Award may be given at any accredited show, not just in Region 12 shows or in shows at regional meetings

• The spider form is redefined to include the spider variant form, i.e. 4:1 or larger

• The addition of the Extra Large form caused redefinition of Large cv., i.e. less than 7”

• The Extra Large cv. was added to the classi-fication and show schedule, i.e. 7” or more

Recent Changes - 2008• Registered polymeres are to be shown in

the same section as registered doubles.

• CVs with multiple-form registrations one of whose forms is double or polymerous (e.g. Polymere/Spider) are to be shown in the same section as doubles

• CVs registered as Spider/Unusual Form are to be shown in the same section as spiders

Recent Changes – 2008Example From Sample Show Schedule

Example

• Registered as: Place in Show Section:

• Double/Spider Flowers ......................................... Double, Polymerous, and Multiform Flowers

• Double/Unusual Form Flowers ............................. Double, Polymerous, and Multiform Flowers

• Double/Polymerous Flowers ................................. Double, Polymerous, and Multiform Flowers

• Double/Spider/Unusual Form Flowers ................. Double, Polymerous, and Multiform Flowers

• Double/Spider/Polymerous Flowers ..................... Double, Polymerous, and Multiform Flowers

• Double/Unusual Form/Polymerous Flowers ........ Double, Polymerous, and Multiform Flowers

• Spider/Unusual Form Flowers .............................. Spider Flowers

• Spider/Unusual Form/Polymerous Flowers .......... Double, Polymerous, and Multiform Flowers

• Spider/Polymerous Flowers .................................. Double, Polymerous, and Multiform Flowers

• Unusual Form/Polymerous Flowers ..................... Double, Polymerous, and Multiform Flowers

• Polymerous Flowers ............................................. Double, Polymerous, and Multiform Flowers

 

Open Forum

45 Minutes