Garden Judges Workshop I – Exam and Questionnaire Step 1 of 5 20% Students: You are on the ‘Honor System’ to answer the exam questions with your daylily judging knowledge at this moment, just as if you were taking the exam in a classroom setting. 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Following the test questions is the Evaluation Form for the workshop. Please be sure to complete the evaluation form before submitting your answers. 1. What is a “Junior Citation?”(Required) It is an award for a promising Youth Member. It is an award for a registered and introduced cultivar. It is an award for a superb and distinctive, but unregistered, seedling. It is the first step leading to an Award of Merit. 2. One of your favorites is not actually among the best you have observed; how should you vote?(Required) Love your favorite like crazy but vote for the better overall daylily. Vote for your favorite because it must have some qualities that attracted you. Vote for your favorite because this action will give you an individual voice. Ask friends to help you choose a cultivar. 3. Can I assume that AHS checks all Spider registrations for qualifying measurements?(Required) Yes. If it’s on the Spider part of the ballot, I don’t have to take an interest in whether the cultivar qualifies in my own observation of it. No, the AHS does not confirm measurements, and with spiders, a qualifying measurement in the hybridizer’s own garden may not be the observed measurement in another region. 4. Which of the publications listed below, and available on the AHS Members Only Site, should be printed and used as a primary resource by garden judges?(Required) Daylily Exhibitions The Daylily Journal Daylilies: A Fifty-Year Affair Judging Daylilies in the Garden 5. Which reasons below are invalid in casting a vote for a cultivar?(Required) The hybridizer is long overdue for some recognition. The cultivar has an impressive record as a parent. I am partial to this kind of daylily and I won’t vote for the types I don’t favor. All of the above. 6. Which of these is not a garden judge’s duty?(Required) Deadhead any tour garden daylilies that appear to need it. Share your skills and knowledge with the public. Focus attention on outstanding performers in your own region. Perform fair and consistent evaluations of complete plants. 7. How does a cultivar get onto the Award of Merit portion of the ballot?(Required) Win the HM, write-in vote, and hybridizer nomination—all three. Win the HM award. Annual Poll of exhibition judges. Awards and Honors Committee makes this decision. 8. The “Pyramid to the Stout Medal”:(Required) Begins with winners of the HM. Honors only cultivars from specific hybridizers. Includes all current winners of the Specialty Awards that have not yet won the Stout Medal. Begins with winners of the Junior Citation. 9. How are candidates chosen for the Honorable Mention Award?(Required) Hybridizers nominate their own cultivars at least 3 years after registration. Awards & Honors Committee nominates overlooked varieties. Garden Judges may nominate, in effect, via their write-in vote. All of the above. 10. How many years may candidates remain on the HM, AM, and Stout ballots?(Required) Five years in each category. 2 years in each category. 3 years in each category. From its first nomination until it wins. 11. In special circumstances, can the AM be awarded to a cultivar that never won the HM award?(Required) Yes, by Garden Judge write-in votes. Yes, by vote of the AHS Board of Directors. Yes, by vote of the AHS Membership. No, the pyramid structure of the awards depends on Garden Judge certification from the bottom to the top. 12. Which specialty award entails a measurement of a typical blossom to determine the ratio of the petal length, fully stretched out, to the widest part of the petal without being uncurled or flattened artificially?(Required) Harris Olson Spider Award to see if it qualifies as a spider. The Lambert/Webster Award for Unusual Form to see if it qualifies as a UF. All specialty awards must be measured in this manner. The Junior Citation to verify the class in which it belongs. 13. Does the garden judge have an obligation to vote for nominated specialty award candidates that don’t meet the award definition when observed?(Required) Yes, the judge must vote for the best overall daylily on the list of nominees even if the best one observed does not meet the definition. No, the judge should only vote for the best overall daylily that, in the judge’s observation, meets the definition. No, the judge should contact the Awards and Honors chair and request a substitute. Yes, the judge must always vote for at least one candidate for each award. 14. If you are not growing any candidates for the Ida Munson Award (for doubles) and have only observed some of the candidates once, how can you determine if any of them bloom “consistently double?”(Required) Talk to gardeners in your region about plant performance, find out if they grow any of the cultivars in question and ask them about how consistently they bloom as doubles. Garden judges are allowed to share information about cultivars on the ballot. You may ask the garden owner where you see the cultivars blooming if they bloom consistently double. All of the above. 15. Who decides how much “consistency” is enough?(Required) The garden judge who weighs one candidate against another. The Regional Garden Judges’ Liaison. The AHS Registrar. The AHS Awards & Honors Committee Chair. 16. What are the UF characteristics?(Required) Cascading, spatulate, and crispate. An obvious eye zone or band. Elaborate edging. Very narrow petals with slightly wider sepals. 17. To qualify as a UF, how many floral segments have to show the UF characteristics?(Required) All segments have to be involved. At least all 3 petals OR all 3 sepals. Total of 3, comprised of petals and/or sepals in any combination possible. Only one petal or sepal. 18. Which of these factors should not be considered by a garden judge in evaluating the bloom as part of the complete plant?(Required) Attractiveness of the bloom, bloom form, pattern and color. Bloom substance and weather resistance. Whether the judge prefers doubles, miniatures, full forms or spiders How well the bloom opens and whether it stays open for an extended time. 19. What factors may result in a long period of bloom?(Required) A daylily’s ability to produce rebloom scapes after the initial scape. High bud count if the plant does not “bloom out” in 2 or 3 weeks. When bud count is not high, the habit of slow pacing of blooms. All of the above. 20. What is important about “branching?”(Required) Good branching helps the blooms to open early and stay open late. Good branching helps the plant to produce more proliferations. Good branching provides a pleasing floral presentation in the garden, with blooms able to open fully and without collision on the scape. Good branching can result in better bloom substance. 21. You are visiting a beginning hybridizer’s garden and are requested to select seedlings for registration. What do you do?(Required) Comment on seedlings you think are outstanding but never make selections even on request. Choose 3 or 4 of the best seedlings for registration to encourage the beginner, even if they aren’t very good. The duty of a garden judge is to encourage. Reprimand the hybridizer for asking, and remind them it is not polite to ask for recommendations. Counsel the beginner on how to breed for garden quality daylilies. 22. How can a judge best deal with the challenge of evaluating the huge number of cultivars on the ballot?(Required) Use personal observation in combination with opinions overheard at symposiums, meetings and/or on the e-mail Robin.es Grow a representative collection, concentrate available time on good collections nearby, and give quality attention rather than sheer numbers of evaluations. Use pictures and descriptions seen on web pages and social media. Use the “blitz” method and do a lot of bus tours, giving each candidate a “quick, but quality” 30 seconds of your time. 23. If you have observed no candidates for some of the awards, what should you do, absolutely, before September 1st?(Required) Do not return the ballot; it won’t count if it’s not complete. Vote only on the awards where you observed acceptable candidates, leave the others blank, and return the ballot. Send a blank ballot and a letter of apology to the Awards and Honors chair. Write in a candidate you know you would like, even if you haven’t actually seen it growing. 24. If you have observed 20 candidates for the HM award but you only think 10 of them deserve the award, what should you do?(Required) Only vote for the ones that meet your standards, even if this means voting for less than 12 candidates. Ask another judge for his recommendations. Just pick the 12 best of the 20 and don’t worry about standards. You are required to use all your votes. Choose the 10 good ones, but make sure to pick another two randomly to use all your votes. 25. Why should I remember the deadline of September 1st?(Required) If your ballot isn’t received, or is received late, your status as a judge is in jeopardy. Because AHS hopes you will remain in the system to become better year by year. Because the Awards and Honors Committee will not write to remind you to mail your ballot. All of the above. Garden Judges Workshop 1 EvaluationOverall Impression of Training(Required) Poor Good Excellent Most Interesting Part of Session:Least Interesting Part of Session:Suggestions to Improve Training: AHS Publication “Judging Daylilies in the Garden"(Required) I acknowledgeI am aware of the publication “Judging Daylilies in the Garden”, and I either have a copy now, or I will acquire it soon, and will refer to it regularly for reference.All Done! You’ve reached the end. Congrats! When you click the submit button, your test will be submitted for scoring. You will receive an email confirmation of your submission, and you will be contacted at the same email address with the results of your test. We look forward to having you as a Garden Judge for the Society!
