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For best twenty-four specimens of any variety of Crab Apple 

 deemed worthy^ by the committee, .fl.SQ 



In addition are placed at the disposal of the committee, to be 

 awarded in gratuities of not less than %1 each, $20 



PEACHES, GKAPES, AND ASSOKTED FRUITS. 



For best nine specimens of Freestone, White Flesh, Yellow 



Flesh, Essex County Seedling-, each variety, S2 



For best collection of Peaches, premium, $3 



For Champion, Lemon, or Orange Quinces, premium, S3 



For Plums, each variety, premium, $2 



For best tour bunches of Concord, Worden's Seedling, Brighton, 



Hartford Prolific. Delaware, Martha, Moore's Early, Niagara 



Grapes, each variety, premium, S3 



For Cold House Grapes, produced with not over one month's 



artificial heat, premiums, $4, 3 



For best collection of ten varieties, not less then ten pounds in 



all, premiums, $7 



For best specimens of four bunches of Grapes, varieties other 



than above, deemed worthy by the committee, premium, $1.50 



For baskets of Assorted Fruits, premiums, $4, 3 



In addition are placed at the disposal of the committee, to be 



awarded in gratuities, of not less than 50 cents each, $25 



PLANTS AND FLOWERS. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



1. All Plants and Flowers for competition and exhibition must 

 be entered lor examination by the committee on or before eleven 

 o'clock, on the first day of ihe Fair, and all such Plants and 

 Flowers must have been grown by the competitor, except native 

 plants and fiowers, 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 oi^'ered for 

 any article, only a single specimen or collection can compete, but 

 when a second or third premium is ottered, one, two or three speci- 

 mens or collections may be exhibited for competition, but no 

 variety can be duplicated. 



4. No premium shall be awarded unless the specimens exhibi- 

 ted 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 admitted in 

 competition for another diflerent premium. 



6. Competitors will be required to furnish information (if the 

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

 case of Native Plants and Flowers, where such were found. 



