Ajypendix. li' 



Rule 2. — To insure examination by the proper committees all fruits must 

 oe correctly and distinctly labeled and placed upon the tables during the 

 first day of the exhibition. 



Rule 3. — The duplication of varieties in a collection will not be per- 

 mitted. 



Rule 4. — In all cases of fruits intended to be examined and reported by 

 committees the name of the exhibitor, together with a complete list of the 

 varieties exhibited by him, must be delivered to the secretary of the 

 society on or before the first day of the exhibition. 



Rule 5. — The exhibitor will receive from the secretary an entry card, 

 which must be placed with the exhibit, when arranged for exhibition, for 

 the guidance of committees. 



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 permitted to sell and deliver articles 

 therein, nor to call attention to them in a boisterous or disorderly manner. 



SECTION III. 



COMMITTKE ON XOMKNCLATllii:. 



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 nomen- 

 clature 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 the 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 collections which shall have been correctly named by the ex- 

 hibitor prior to action thereon by the committee on nomenclature. 



Rule 2. — In instituting such comparison of values committees are in- 

 structed to consider: First, the values of the varieties for the purposes 

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

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

 blemishes; fourth, the apparent carefulness in handling, and the taste dis- 

 played in the arrangement of the exhibit. 



