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3. Rules for Exhibition. 



1. AMERICAN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY RULES. 



For Exhibitors. 



1. A plate of fruit must contain six specimens— no more, 

 no less — except in the case of single varieties not included in col- 

 lections. 



2. To insure examination by the proper committees, all fruits 

 must be correctly and distinctly labeled, and placed upon the 

 tables during the first day of the exhibition. 



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

 mitted. 



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

 by committees, the name of the exhibitor, together with a com- 

 plete list of the varieties exhibited by him, must be delivered to 

 the secretary of the society on or before the first day of the ex- 

 hibition. 



5. The exhibitor will receive from the secretary an entry-card 

 which must be placed with the exhibit, when arranged for ex- 

 hibition, for the guidance of committees. 



6. All articles placed upon the tables for exhibition must re- 

 main 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. 



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

 away to visitors, spectators or others, will be assigned a sepa- 

 rate 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, or to call attention to them 

 in a boisterous or disorderly manner. 



For the Ouidance of Examining and Awarding Committees. 



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 exhibitor prior to action thereon by the committee 

 on nomenclature. 



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

 structed to consider: 1st, the values of the varieties for the 



