Exhibition Judges
Clinic III
The Refresher
Clinic III – Exhibition Judges’
Refresher Training Clinic
Review
30 min
Judges' Responsibilities
Ethics
Judging Standards and Organization
1) AHS Major Awards
2) AHS Standard System of Awards
3) 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 offscape 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 Registered
On-Scape CV’s
• Flower
Color
10
Form
10
Texture
10
Substance
10
Size as to CV
10
• Scape
35
Harmonious relationship to
flower, height and strength
Buds
Branching
50
• Condition and Grooming
15
15
10
10
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
Different from and superior to other CVs
• Flower
Color
Form
Texture
Substance
• Scape
Harmonious relationship to
flower, height and strength
Buds
Branching
• Condition and Grooming
25
40
10
10
10
10
30
10
10
10
5
Scale of Points for Registered,
Individual Blooms Off-Scape
• Form
• Texture
• Substance
• Color
• Size according to CV
• Condition
20
20
20
20
10
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
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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)
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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 classification 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 – 2008
Example From Sample Show Schedule
Example
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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