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 PLANTS AND FLOWERS. 



liULES 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 desig- 

 nated in the schedule, there must be neither more nor less than 'hat 

 number or quantity of specimens shown. 



3. When only one premium from each exhibitor is offered for any ar- 

 ticle, only a single specimen or collection can compete, but when a 

 second or third premium is offered, one, two or three specimens or col- 

 lections may be exhibited for competition, but no variety can be dupli- 

 cated. 



4. No premium shall be awarded unless the specimens exhibited are 

 of superior excellence, possessing points of superiority and worthy of 

 such premium, not eyen if they are the only ones of their kind on exhi- 

 bition. 



5. No specimen entered for one premium shall be admitted in compe- 

 tition for another different premium. 



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

 mittee 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 suit- 

 able 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 cul- 

 ture 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 the ma- 

 terial 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 



