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2009 MANUAL OF JUDGING
Approved by
the Board of Directors
The Cymbidium
Society of America, Inc.
Published by
The Cymbidium
Society of America, Inc.
Revised - 2009
PREFACE
The objectives of the Cymbidium Society of America, Inc.,
which was founded October 3, 1946 by Messrs. Ray M. Bauer, J.C. Wright, C.E. Galli, A.E. Nelson,
Caro Krebs, Robert Casamajor, John A. Hudlow, C.H. Lauder, and David W. McLean, who then
constituted the Board of Directors, are to stimulate and extend the appreciation of cymbidiums,
paphiopedilums and phragmipediums and to develop, acquire and disseminate information concerning them.
In promotion of such objectives the Society has established
a Judging Committee. On the following pages are outlined the purposes, composition, and duties
of that Committee together with rules and regulations on judging, and an outline of the principles
of award judging. There is also shown the method of selection of Judges, and of Associate Judges
who aspire to become Judges.
Included also is information on various trophies and awards
which come under jurisdiction of the Awards Committee, the Rules of the Nomenclature for Orchids
and definitions of words and phrases frequently used.
--1985
This is version 4.0 of the Judging Manual, revised for judging year 2009.
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