General Eules and Reeculations. 



1. All Plants, Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables offered for prizes or 

 gratuities must have their names annexed, and must have been grown by the 

 competitors. Specimens offered for exhibition by others than the growers 

 must in all cases have the names of the growers affixed, if known. 



2. No prize shall be awarded for any plant or other article unless such 

 plant or the plant producing such other article shall have been the property 

 of the exhibitor for three months next preceding the award, except such 

 variety be exhibited for the first time in this country. 



3. The Hall or Library Room will be open every Saturday for the exhibi- 

 tion of new or choice specimens of Plants, Flowers, Fruits, or Vegetables, — 

 from the first Saturday in April to the third Saturday in November, inclusive, 

 from 12 M. to 3 P. M., and during the remainder of the year from 12 M. to 

 2 P. M. Articles exhibited must be ready for examination by the Committees 

 at 11 A. M. 



4. Where a certain number or quantity of Plants, Flowers, Fruits or 

 Vegetables 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 Schedule be in the stand. 



5. When only one prize is offered for any article, only a single specimen 

 or collection can be shown by one j)erson; but when a second, third, or 

 fourth prize is offered, two, three, or four specimens or collections may be 

 exhibited, excepting where otherwise stated in the regular Schedule, but no 

 variety can he duplicated in the exhibition of specimens. 



fi. No specimens of either Fruits or Vegetables which have been once 

 offered for competition can be offered a second time. 



7. All persons exhibiting Plants, Flowers, Fruits, or Vegetables, ^vho 

 desire reports of the same, must hand lists to the Chairmen of the respective 

 Committees. 



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

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

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

 contributors may direct. 



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

 or gratuity unless they possess points of superiority, and no award will be 

 made to unworthy objects, though they may be the only ones of their kind on 

 exhibition. 



10. Competitors will be required to furnish information as to their modes 

 of cultivation, and to present specimens for trial and examination, if neces- 

 sary. 



