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RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



1. All Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables, offered for Prizes, must have their 

 names annexed, and must have been grown by the competitors. 



2. Articles exhibited for Prizes must be placed in the stands by 1 1 o'clock, 

 A. M. The exhibition will be open to the public from 12 M. to '.i P. M. 



3. Contributors of Fruits, for exhibition or prizes, are requested to present 

 the same in dishes or baskets of the Society, or in suitable baskets or boxes of 

 their own. 



4. All contributors exhibiting Plants, Flowers, Fruits or Vegetables, tcho 

 desire a report of the same, must hand a list to the Chairman of the respective 

 Committees, 



5. After the articles are arranged, they will be under the exclusive charge 

 of the Committees, and not even the owners will have liberty to remove or tovch 

 them, until the exhibition is closed, when they will be delivered as the con- 

 tributors may direct. 



6. No Flowers, Fruits, or Vegetables, will be entitled to a Prize, unless 

 they possess points of superiority ; and the Committees have the discretionary 

 power of withholding Prizes, if, in their opinion, the articles exhibited do not 

 merit them. 



7. Plants in Pots, to be entitled to Prizes, must evince skilful culture in the 

 profusion of bloom, and the beauty, symmetry, and vigor of the specimens. 



8. Competitors will be required to furnish information as to their mode of 

 cultivation, and to present specimens for trial and examination if requested. 



9. No article for which a Prize has been once awarded, can receive 

 another during the season. 



10. The Committee are authorized to award Gratuities for any new or rare 

 Fruits, Flowers, Vegetables, Plants, or Designs of Merit, for which no Prize 

 has been awarded. When Prizes, or Gratuities of the value of $3 are award- 

 ed, they may be given in horticultural publications, at the discretion of the 

 various Committees. 



11. The Fruit Committee, in making their awards, will consider the flavor, 

 beauty, and size of the specimens ; comparing each of these properties with 

 a fair standard of the variety. 



12. In deciding on the merits of a Fruit or Vegetable, its value for general 

 cultivation will be taken into account; but superior specimens of any good 

 variety will not be excluded from Prizes, even though they may not flourish 

 in all situations. 



13. When specimens are presented for a name, the exhibitor shall com- 

 municate all the information he possesses, as to the origin and the local 

 appellation. 



14. It will be the duty of the Committee to exclude from Exhibition all 

 inferior specimens. Also, all such Designs as, in their opinion, evince an 

 incorrect taste. 



15. The Committees, have power to change the time of exhibition for any 

 article, if an earlier or later season renders such change necessary, by giving 

 seasonable notice thereof to the Society. 



16. All Prizes, not applied for within one year from the time of the award, 

 shall revert to the Society for its own use and benefit. 



17. No member of any of the Committees for awarding Premiums or 

 Gratuities, shall, in any case, vote or decide respecting an award for which 

 such member may be a competitor, or therein have an interest ; but in such 

 case such member shall temporarily vacate his place upon the Committee, 



