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RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



1. All Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables, offered for Prizes, must have 

 their names annexed, and must have been 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 pre- 

 sent 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, must 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 oivners will have liberty to 

 remove or touch them until the exhibition is closed, when they will be 

 delivered as the contributors may direct. 



6. No Flowers, Fruits or Vegetables will be entitled to a Prize unless 

 they possess points of superiority ; and the Committees have the discretion- 

 ary power of withholding Prizes, if, in their opinion, the articles exhibited 

 do not merit them. 



7. Plants in Pots, to be entitled to Prizes, must evince skilful culture, 

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

 specimens. 



8. Competitors will be required to furnish information on their mode of 

 cultivation, and to present specimens for trial and examination if requested. 



9. No article, for which a Prize has been once awarded, can receive 

 another during the season. 



10. The Committee are authorized to award Gratuities for any new or 

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

 no Prize has been offered. 



11. 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. 



12. In deciding on the merits of a Fruit or Vegetable, its value for 

 general 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. 



13. When specimens are presented for a name, the exhibitor shall com- 

 municate all the information he possesses, as to the origin and the local 

 appellation. 



14. It will be the duty of the Committees to exclude from Exhibition all 



