1884.] RULES AND REGULATIONS. 5 



2. Competition for premiums is open to all ; but a discount 

 of one-third of the amount will be made from awards to persons 

 who are not Members of the Society ; and it is strictly required 

 that all specimens offered for premium shall have been grown by 

 the competitors, within the County of Worcester^ for a period of 

 at least one (1) month previous to the date of exhibition. 



3. After the articles are arranged they will be under the 

 exclusive charge of the Judges, and not even the owners will have 

 liberty to remove them until the exhibition is closed ; when they 

 will be delivered as the contributors may direct. 



4. No cards of a business nature will be allowed in any 

 Exhibition. 



5. Where a certain number or quantity of Plants, Flowers, 

 Fruits or Yegetables is designated in the schedule, there must be 

 neither more nor less than that number or quantity of specimens 

 shown; and in no case can any other varieties than those named 

 in the scliedule be substituted. 



G. It will be the duty of the Judges to exclude from coi)i2yc4i- 

 tion all inferior specitnens. Also, all such Designs as, in their 

 opinion, evince an incorrect taste. The Judge of Fruits, in 

 making Awards, will especially regard uniformity in size, sym- 

 metry of form, and beauty in color. 



7. The Committee of Arrangements have power to change 

 the time of exhibition for any article, if an earlier or later 

 season renders such change necessary ; and the Secretary is re- 

 quested to give notice of one week, in some daily paper, and also, 

 at tlie preceding Exhibition, when a change in the Schedule is 

 proposed. 



8. All articles offered for premiums must be correctly named. 

 Indefinite appellations, such as " Pippin," " Sweeting," " Green- 

 ing," etc., will not be considered as names. Any person e^chibit- 

 ing the same variety of Fruit or Vegetables, under different 

 names, or exhibiting as grown by himself, Flowers, Fruit or 

 Vegetables grown by another, thereby violating the objects and 

 rules of the Society, shall be debarred from competing for the 

 Society's premiums until reinstated. 



9. No Flowers, Plants, Fruits or Vegetables will be entitled 

 to a premium unless they possess points of. superiority ; and the 



