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Rule 6. — All articles placed upon the tables for exhibition must 

 remain in charge of the Society till the close of the exhibition, to be 

 removed sooner only upon express permission of the person or persons 

 in charge. 



Rule 7. — Fruits or other articles intended for testing, or to be given 

 away to visitors, spectators, or others, will be assigned a separate hall, 

 room, or tent, in which they may be dispensed at the pleasure of the 

 exhibitor, who will not, however, be ijermitted to sell and deliver 

 articles therein, nor to call attention to them in a boisterous or dis- 

 orderly manner. 



Section III. Committee on Nomenclature. 



Rule 1. — It shall be the duty of the President, at the first session of 

 the Society, on the first day of an exhibition of fruits, to appoint a 

 committee of five expert pomologists, whose duty it shall be to supervise 

 the nomenclature of the fruits on exhibition, and in case of error to 

 correct the same. 



Rule 2. — In making the necessary corrections they shall, for the con- 

 venience of examining and awarding committees, do the same at as 

 early a period as practicable, and in making such corrections they shall 

 use cards readily distinguishable from those used as labels by exhibitors 

 appending a mark of doubtfulness in case of uncertainty. 



Section IV. Examining and Awarding Committees. 



Rule 1.— In estimating the comparative values of collections of fruits, 

 committees are instructed to base such estimates strictly upon the 

 varieties in such collection which shall have been correctly named by 

 the exhibitor, prior to action thereon by the committee on nomenclature. 



Rule 3. — In instituting such comparison of values, committees are 

 instructed to consider: 1st, the values of the varieties for the purposes 

 to which they may be adapted; 2d, the color, size, and evenness of the 

 specimens; 3d, their freedom from the marks of insects and other 

 blemishes; 4th, the apparent carefulness in handling, and the taste 

 displayed in the arrangement of the exhibit. 



T. T. Lyon, South Haven, Mich. ^ 



John A. Warder, North Bend, Ohio. | 



J. J. Thomas, Union Springs, N. Y. J> Committee. 



C. M. Hovey, Cambridge, Mass. 



P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga. 



Extract ^rom the President's Address. 



In former addresses, I have spoken to you of the importance of 

 the establishment of short, plain, and proper rules, to govern the 

 nomenclature and description of pur fruits, and of our duty in 



