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Rules for Exhibition, continued. 



size. For market : ist, productiveness ; ad, color ; 3d, hand- 

 ling qualities ; 4th, suitable, even size. 



12. The true and legitimate purpose of the premiums offered 

 is to draw out the views of both exhibitors and committees re- 

 specting the relative values, for the purposes specified, of the 

 varieties included in the exhibits. 



13. The society desires to encourage the planting of only a 

 sufficiently large variety of sorts for the desired purpose. 

 Hence it is important that the committee, in their reports, 

 specify, in the order of their value, the varieties upon which 

 the determination of their awards is based. 



14. Useful and valuable varieties only are expected to influ- 

 ence awards ; while indifferent sorts, even though large, 

 showy and attractive, should not, for these reasons alone, be 

 held to add to the value of an exhibit, except, possibly, as a 

 means of education. 



15. An important object of the society is to collect valuable 

 information of a pomological character. Committees are there- 

 fore requested to gather all the information possible from the 

 exhibitors in their classes, and to make their reports as full as 

 time and circumstances will permit. 



16. The society desires to foster a free exercise, by exhibit- 

 ors, of the principles of correct taste in the arrangement, display 

 and ornamentation of their exhibits. To this end, committees 

 will give all reasonable and proper consideration to particulars 

 of this character. 



