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except native plants and flowers and flowers used in bouquets, 

 and baskets of flowers and floral designs, all of which (plants 

 and flowers) must have been grown within the County. 



2. When a certain number or quantity of plants and 

 flowers is designated in the schedule, there must be neither 

 more nor less than that number or quantity of specimens shown. 



3. When only one premium from each exhibitor is offered 

 for any article, only a single specimen or collection can com- 

 pete, but when a second or third premium is offered, one, two 

 or three specimens or collections may be exhibited, for com- 

 petition, but no variety can be duplicated. 



4. No premium shall be awarded unless the specimens 

 exhibited are of superior excellence, possessing points of 

 superiority 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 admit- 

 ted in competition for another diiferent 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 specifled 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, 

 symmetry 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 



