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4. No premium shall be awarded unless the specimens 

 exhibited are of superior excellence, possessing points of supe- 

 riority and worthy of such premium, not, even if they are the 

 only ones of their kind on exhibition. 



5. No specimen entered for one premium shall be admitted 

 in competition for another different premium. 



6. Competitors will be required to furnish information (if 

 the committee so request), as to their modes of cultivation, or 

 in the case of native plants and flowers, where such were 

 found. 



7. All plants exhibited for premiums must have the name 

 legibly and correctly written on stiff card, wood or some 

 other permanent and suitable substance, and so attached to 

 same as to be easily seen. Flowers when specified to be 

 named to comply also with above rule. 



8. Plants in pots to be entitled to premiums must show 

 skilful culture in the profusion of bloom and in the beauty, 

 symetry and vigor of the specimens; also bouquets, baskets, 

 design work, etc., must show taste, skill, and harmony in 

 arrangement, both as to colors and material they are made of, 

 and purposes for which they are intended. 



9. All flowers exhibited must be shown upon their own 

 stem, flowers in "Design" word alone excepted; and this 

 exception, if overcome and avoided, to be taken into account 

 by the committee in awarding the premiums. 



10. The committee are authorized to award gratuities for 

 any new and rare plants and flowers or " Designs of merit " 

 for which no premium is offered, but in no case shall the total 

 sum (premiums and gratuities together) on plants and flowers 

 exceed the amount, $125, limited by the Society for this de- 

 partment. 



11. No member of the committee for awarding premiums 

 or gratuities shall in any case vote, or decide respecting an 

 award for which such member may be a competitor, or in 

 which he may have an interest, but in such case such member 

 shall temporarily vacate his place upon the Committee, and 

 such vacancy for the time being may be filled by the remain- 

 ing members of the Committee, or they may act without. 



12. Attention is again called to above Rules and Regula- 

 tions for plants and flowers, and General Rules of the Socie- 

 ty, and all articles not entered in conformity therewith will 

 be disqualified, and premiums will be awarded only to exhib- 

 itors who have complied with said Rules, etc. 



Committee on plants and flowers will take notice. 



