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PROSPECTIVE PREMIUMS. 



ORCHARDS. 



All persons competing for these Premiums, must make tlieir entries 

 on or before the Jst day of June, in the year in which the Premiuma. 

 are to be awarded, and furnish a detailed statement of the whole 

 management from the time of setting out, on or before November 10th 

 of the same year. 



APPLES. 



For the best Orchard of not less than fiftv trees, all havintf 

 been set out after January 1st, 1856, to be 

 awarded in 1S60, . . . $25,00 



•* second best do., . . . 10,00 



PEARS. 



For the best Orchard of not less than fifty trees, all havinsr 

 been set out after January 1st, 1856, to be ' 

 awarded in 1861, . . . $25,00 



** second best do., . , . 10,00 



PEACHES. 



For the best Orchard of not less ihan fifty trees, all to be 

 set out previous to January 1st, 1853, to be 

 awarded in 1S59, . . . $10,00 



" second best do., . . . 5,00 



RECLAIMED ORCHARDS. 

 For the best experiment in reclaiming on old Orchard, 



either Apple or Pear, to be awarded in 1859, $10,00 

 " second best do, . . . 5,00 



FOREST TREES. 



For the best plantation of any kind of Forest trees, suita- 

 ble for fuel or limber, raised from the seed, 

 not less than 500 in number, which shall be 

 in the most flourishing condition in the fall 

 of 1863, , . . . $25,00 



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