82 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



SPECIAL RULES TO GOVERIS- ERUIT EXHIBITS, ADOPTED 

 BY THE SOCIETY, NOV. 13, 1878. 



All fruit must be entered in the name of the producer ; 

 and each exhibiter must certify to the same on lists of the 

 varieties, to be filed when entry is made, or on the entry- 

 book. (Committees are not authorized to make awards to 

 those who do not comply with this rule.) 



Tables will be labelled in a conspicuous manner by the 

 hall committee, previous to the entry of exhibiters, with the 

 names of fruit, or collections of fruit, for which premiums 

 are offered ; all others to be classed and labelled as miscella- 

 neous. 



Exhibiters must place their several varieties where indi- 

 cated by such labels, or be considered by the committees as 

 not competing for premiums. 



Collections where premiums are offered for a number of 

 -varieties must be entered and placed by themselves, on the 

 tables assigned for collections of that class of fruit. 



Specimens of any variety in such collections are not to 

 compete with specimens of same variety placed elsewhere. 

 No collection can be awarded more than one premium. 

 Exhibiters of collections are not prevented from exhibiting 

 additional specimens of any variety with, and for competition 

 with, others of that variety. 



Plates of twenty-four ^ specimens of fruit, when premiums 

 are offered therefor, must be entered and placed by the ex- 

 hibiter on the table assigned for that class of fruit-exhibit. 



To entitle exhibiters to receive the premiums and gratuities 

 awarded, they are required to give information to the com- 

 mittees (when requested) in regard to the culture of their 

 fruit. 



[Reply of Baldwin Coolidge of Lawrence.] 



My place is quite small, — a half-acre only. The Seckel 

 is ordinary nursery stock; the Duchesse is imported. My 

 soil is a clayey loam, with a hard clay gravel-packed subsoil. 

 The soil is enriched once in two or three years with night- 

 soil, deposited in a series of holes dug around the trees, — 

 three or four holes to each tree, and from four to six feet 

 from tree to nearest edge of hole. 



