Garden Judges Workshop I – Exam and Questionnaire

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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. You should not take any longer than one hour to complete this exam.

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Please answer the following questions, choosing the best answer for each question presented. 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 superb and distinctive, but unregistered, seedling.

It is the first step leading to an Award of Merit.

It is an award for a promising Youth Member.

It is an award for a registered and introduced cultivar.

2. One of your favorites is not actually among the best you have observed; how should you vote?(Required)

Vote for your favorite because this action will give you an individual voice.

Ask friends to help you choose a cultivar.

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.

3. Can I assume that AHS checks all Spider registrations for qualifying measurements?(Required)

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.

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.

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)

The Daylily Journal

Daylily Exhibitions

Judging Daylilies in the Garden

Daylilies: A Fifty-Year Affair

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)

Focus attention on outstanding performers in your own region.

Perform fair and consistent evaluations of complete plants.

Share your skills and knowledge with the public.

Deadhead any tour garden daylilies that appear to need it.

7. How does a cultivar get onto the Award of Merit portion of the ballot?(Required)

Win the HM award.

Annual Poll of exhibition judges.

Awards and Honors Committee makes this decision.

Win the HM, write-in vote, and hybridizer nomination—all three.

8. The “Pyramid to the Stout Medal”:(Required)

Includes all current winners of the Specialty Awards that have not yet won the Stout Medal.

Begins with winners of the Junior Citation.

Honors only cultivars from specific hybridizers.

Begins with winners of the HM.

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)

2 years in each category.

From its first nomination until it wins.

Five years in each category.

3 years in each category.

11. In special circumstances, can the AM be awarded to a cultivar that never won the HM award?(Required)

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.

Yes, by Garden Judge write-in votes.

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)

The Junior Citation to verify the class in which it belongs.

All specialty awards must be measured in this manner.

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.

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 always vote for at least one candidate for each award.

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 vote for the best overall daylily on the list of nominees even if the best one observed does not meet the definition.

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 AHS Registrar.

The Regional Garden Judges’ Liaison.

The garden judge who weighs one candidate against another.

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.

Only one petal or sepal.

Total of 3, comprised of petals and/or sepals in any combination possible.

At least all 3 petals OR all 3 sepals.

18. Which of these factors should not be considered by a garden judge in evaluating the bloom as part of the complete plant?(Required)

Whether the judge prefers doubles, miniatures, full forms or spiders

Attractiveness of the bloom, bloom form, pattern and color.

How well the bloom opens and whether it stays open for an extended time.

Bloom substance and weather resistance.

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 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.

Good branching helps the blooms to open early and stay open late.

Good branching helps the plant to produce more proliferations.

21. You are visiting a beginning hybridizer’s garden and are requested to select seedlings for registration. What do you do?(Required)

Counsel the beginner on how to breed for garden quality daylilies.

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.

Comment on seedlings you think are outstanding but never make selections even on request.

22. How can a judge best deal with the challenge of evaluating the huge number of cultivars on the ballot?(Required)

Use the “blitz” method and do a lot of bus tours, giving each candidate a “quick, but quality” 30 seconds of your time.

Use personal observation in combination with opinions overheard at symposiums, meetings and/or on the e-mail Robin.es

Use pictures and descriptions seen on web pages and social media.

Grow a representative collection, concentrate available time on good collections nearby, and give quality attention rather than sheer numbers of evaluations.

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.

Write in a candidate you know you would like, even if you haven’t actually seen it growing.

Send a blank ballot and a letter of apology to the Awards and Honors chair.

Vote only on the awards where you observed acceptable candidates, leave the others blank, and return the ballot.

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)

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.

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.

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 Evaluation

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AHS Publication “Judging Daylilies in the Garden"(Required)

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I 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!