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Plants and Flowers. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



1. All Plants and Flowers for competition and exhibition must 

 be entered for examination by the committee on or before eleven 

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

 Flowers must have been grown by the competitor, 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 nuuiber 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 compete, but 

 when a second or third premium is offered, 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 exhibit- 

 ed are of superior excellence, possessmg 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 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 legi- 

 bly and correctly written on stiff card, wood, or some other perma- 

 nent 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, 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" work 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), exctcl ihc amount, .^100.00, limited by the 

 Society for this departmeui. 



11. No member of the Committee for awarding premiums or 

 gratuities shall in any case vote or decide respecting au 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 remaining members of the Committee, or they 

 may act without. 



