206 horticulturist's rule-book. 



Entry-cards, name-cards, and the cards of the committee on 

 nomenclature, should, for the convenience of awarding commit- 

 tees and other officers, be each of a different color, or otherwise 

 printed in different-colored inks. 



Exhibitors will not be permitted to sell and deliver the arti- 

 cles they may have entered for exhibition, or to bring fruit or 

 any other article for the purpose of sale, on a penalty of for- 

 feiture of all premiums, but such articles must remain in charge 

 of the officers until the close of the exhibition. 



Any exhibitor interfering with awarding committees while in 

 discharge of their duties, will be held, by so doing, to have for- 

 feited all premiums. 



For Awarding Committees. — 1. The division superintendent 

 will be a member and clerk of the awarding committee for his 

 division. The remaining members of each committee will be 

 selected with great care from the best horticulturists of this 

 and neighboring states. The names of such persons will not be 

 made public until the time of the fair. 



2. Members of the awarding committee are requested to 

 report to the president, at the secretary's office, on or before 

 noon of the second day of the fair, that the places of those 

 failing to report may be supplied. 



3. The president is chairman of the committee on nomencla- 

 ture; but to expedite the business of correction the superin- 

 tendent of each division will correct the nomenclature of his 

 division, appealing to the chairman in all doubtful cases, and 

 attaching the committee's card in all cases in which corrections 

 are made. 



4. No exhibitor will be permitted to act on a committee in a 

 class in which he shall exhibit for premiums. 



5. Members of the awarding committee are requested to 

 report to the president, at the secretary's office, at 1 o'clock p.m., 

 on Thursday, when they will receive their committee books, 

 together with such explanations and instructions as may at the 

 time seem needful. 



6. Upon conclusion of their labors, not later than the after- 

 noon of Friday, awarding committees will deliver their reports 



