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RULES AND EEGULATIONS. 



1. All Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables, offered for Prizes, are to be grown 

 by the competitors. 



2. Articles exhibited for Prizes must be placed in the Stands by 11 

 o'clock, A. 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, 

 who desire a full report of the same, are requested to 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 touch them until the exhibition is closed, when they will be deliv- 

 ered as the contributors may direct. 



6. No Flower, Fruit or Vegetable will be entitled to a Prize unless it 

 possesses points of superiority ; and the Committees have the discretionary 

 power of withholding Prizes, if, in their opinion, the articles exliibited do 

 not merit them. 



7. Plants in Pots to be entitled to Prizes must give evidence of skilful 

 culture, in the profusion of bloom, and the beauty, symmetry, and vigor 

 of the specimens. 



8. Successful competitors will be expected to furnish remarks on their 

 mode of cultivation, if peculiar ; and candidates for the Fruit Prizes will 

 be required to present specimens for trial. 



9. Premiums can be awarded only to exhibitors who have complied with 

 the published Rules and Regulations. 



10. No article for Avhich a prize has been once awarded, can receive 

 another during the season. 



11. The Committees are authorized to award Extra Prizes for any new 

 or rare Fruits, Flowers, Vegetables, Plants, or Designs of merit, and for 

 which no Prize has been offered. 



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

 flavor, beauty, and size of the specimens ; and each of these properties as 

 compared with a fair standard of the variety. 



13. In deciding on the merits of a Fruit or Vegetable, its value for gen- 

 eral 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. 



