180 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
RULES GOVERNING EXHIBITS OF FRUITS AND FLOW- 
ERS AT MINNESOTA STATE FAIR, 1900. 
(Extract from Premium List.) 
Superintendents are required to have their exhibits in position by the Sat- 
urday night before the fair opens. 
1. To be entitled to compete for premiums and receive awards, exhibits 
must be in place by the Saturday night, Sept. 1st, before the fair opens. 
Small exhibits from a distance will be put in place by the superintendent 
where previous notice has been given and the necessary entry made by the 
exhibitor. 
2. All the exhibits of fruit in each class will be placed together, under 
the direction of the superintendent. No one can exhibit in both the amateur 
and professional classes at the same fair. 
3. All articles competing for premiums must have been grown in Min- 
nesota or made from Minnesota products, and by the person in whose name 
they are entered, except as otherwise noted. Any deviation from this rule 
shall work a forfeiture of any premiums awarded thereon. 
When required, a statement to the judges must certify that they were so 
grown or made. 
4. A collection shall consist of three or more named varieties, and they 
must be placed together, and a list of all the varieties included therein must 
accompany the collection. Any variety may be exhibited in a collection ex- 
cept a seedling, the original tree, bush or vine producing which is the prop- 
erty of the exhibitor. The latter part of this rule does not apply to collec- 
tions of seedlings. 
5. A plate of apples, pears and peaches should consist of exactly four 
specimens; grapes, four bunches; crabs, hybrids and plums, ten specimens; 
blackberries, gooseberries and sand cherries, one pint. 
6. Each article must be correctly labeled with its name, or, if an un- 
named seedling, it must be so stated; labels and pins of a uniform size for 
this purpose will be furnished exhibitors by the superintendent and must 
be used by them. 
7. Each exhibitor must place his name and address conspicuously on his 
exhibit. 
8. Separate articles must be furnished for each entry. Not more than 
one plate of any variety will be permitted in any exhibit, nor can any va- 
riety be shown under synonymous names. Apples of the same type, such as 
Borovinka and Anisette, of the Duchess type, and Silken Leaf, Romna, 
Lieby, etc., of the Hibernal type, will be considered as duplicates in collec- 
tive exhibits. The report of the La Crosse Commission, appointed by the 
Minnesota State Horticultural Society, will be recognized authority in mat- 
ters of Russian nomenclature. 
9. Exhibitors may replace with fresh fruit any specimens that show a 
tendency to spot or decay at any time during the fair, except when the judge 
is working upon the class to which it belongs. 
Decayed, injured or inferior specimens must not be exhibited, and when 
such specimens appear in a collection, not only will they not be counted, 
but they will be considered by the judges as lowering the comparative stand- 
