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6. The premiums awarded in the Horticultural Department will be paid on the last 

 day of the Fair by checks drawn on the Treasurer of the Agricultural Society. 



7. All entries of more than a single plate of fruit, or other single article, must be 

 made with the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society, prior to the close of the 

 week next preceding the Fair; and all entries of single plates or other single articles, 

 must be made prior to noon of the second day of the Fair. 



8. Entries may be made for exhibition, without competition; and if worthy, the 

 Awarding Committees are expected to properly notice them in their reports. 



9. No article entered for competition in one class, will be permitted to compete for a 

 premium in any other, except as hereinafter expressly provided. 



10. Each entry of fruits must be accompanied by a correct list of the varieties of 

 each class of fruits ; named in the order of their maturity as nearly as may be ; and 

 must specify whether for dessert or culinary purposes, or both. No premium will be 

 awarded in the absence of such list. 



11. Fruits will be valued by Committees according to their adaptation to the require- 

 ments under which they are entered, A really superior dessert fruit, if entered in a 

 market collection, can only receive credit for its value for the market, as given in the 

 Society's catalogue; and vice versa, market varieties found in a dessert or family col- 

 lection must be adjudged by their proper value for family purposes. 



12. A plate of fruit, unless otherwise specified, must contain five specimens — no more 

 — no less. Of those usually designated "small fruits," the exhibit must be one pint of 

 each variety. Of crab apples and plums, one dozen of each variety. Of dried fruits, 

 one quart of each separate variety or article. Jellies, canned, pickled and preserved 

 fruits, may be entered and shown in glass vessels, of such character and capacity as 

 are commonly employed for family or market purposes. 



13. Flowers, plants, evergreens, and such other articles as the fancy of the exhibitor 

 may suggest, may be freely employed in the ornamentation of exhibits, in any manner 

 that shall not essentially interfere with the examinations of Committees; and full 

 weight will be given to such ornamentation, by the Awarding Committees, in render- 

 ing their awards. 



14. The entry card, furnished by the Secretary, specifying the class and number of 

 the entry, must in all cases be placed in connection with the articles to which it apper- 

 tains, as a guide to Committees. 



15. Articles when entered, named and arranged for exhibition, will thenceforward 

 be strictly under the control of the officers in charge of the exhibition, and neither 

 exhibitors nor spectators will be permitted to handle them, except by permission of the 

 proper officer. 



16. Any exhibitor, having been awarded a premium upon an article, and removing 

 the same prior to the close of the exhibition, without the permission of the officer in 

 charge, will by so doing forfeit Iris right to such premium. 



17. The name of a fruit should, in no case, appear on the entry cards, except only 

 in the case of single plates, or other single articles. 



18. Entry Cards, Name Cards, and the cards of the Committee on Nomenclature 

 should, for the convenience of Awarding Committees and other officers, be each of a 

 different color, or otherwise printed in different colored inks. 



19. Exhibitors will not be permitted to sell and deliver the articles they may have 

 entered for exhibition; nor to bring fruit nor any other article for the purpose of sale, 

 on a penalty of forfeiture of all premiums; but such articles must remain in charge of 

 the officers, as provided in rule fifteenth, till the close of the exhibition. 



20. Any exhibitor interfering with Awarding Committees, while in the discharge of 

 their duties, will be held, by so doing, to have forfeited all premiums. 



AWARDING COMMITTEES. 



1. The Division Superintendent will be a member and clerk of the Awarding Com- 

 mittee of his Division. The remaining members of Such Committee will be selected 

 with great care from the best horticulturists of this and neighboring States. The 

 names of such persons will not be made public till the time of the State Fair. 



2. Members of the Awarding Committee are requested to report to the President, at 

 the Secretary's office, on or before noon of the second day of the Fair, that the places 

 of those failing to report may be supplied. 



3. The President is chairman of the committee on nomeclature; but to expedite the 

 business of correction, the Superintendent of each Division will correct the nomen- 

 clature of his Division, appealing to the chairman in all doubtful cases; and attaching 

 the Committee's card in all cases in which corrections are made. 



4. No exhibitor will be permitted to act on a Committee, in a class in which he shall 

 exhibit for premiums. 



