28 BAY STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 



General Rules and Regulations, 



1. All Flowers and Fruits offered for Prizes, must have their 

 names annexed, and must have been grown by the competitors. 

 Specimens offered for exhibition by others than the growers, 

 must in all cases have the names of the growers affixed, if known. 



2. Where a certain number or quantity of Plants, Flowers and 

 Fruits is designated in the Schedule, there must be neither more 

 nor less than that number or quantity of specimens shown ; and 

 in no case can any other varieties than those named in the sched- 

 ule be in the stand. 



3. When only one prize is offered for any article, only a single 

 specimen or collection can be shown by one person ; but when a 

 second, third, or fourth prize is offered, two, three or four 

 specimens or collections may be exhibited, but no variety can be 

 duplicated. 



4. All persons exhibiting Plants, Flowers and Fruits, who 

 desire reports of the same, must hand lists to the Superintendent 

 of this Class. 



5. After the articles are arranged, they will be under the ex- 

 clusive charge of the Superintendent, and not even the owners Mill 

 have liberty to remove or touch them, until the exhibition is 

 closed, when they will be delivered as the contributors may 

 direct. 



6. No Flowers or Fruits will be entitled to a prize unless they 

 possess points of superiority. 



7. Competitors will be required to furnish information as to 

 their modes of cultivation, and to present specimens for trial and 

 examination if necessary. 



8. No cards of a business nature will be allowed in any ex- 

 hibition. 



9. In awarding Premiums for Fruits, adaptation to general 

 Cultivation will be deemed indispensable. 



10. Attention is called to the Special Rules for Flowers and 

 Fruits, and all articles not offered in conformity to the Rules 

 will be disqualified, and Prizes will be awarded only to exhibi- 

 tors who have complied with the Pules and Regulations. 



11. It is understood that all persons placing any article in any 

 exhibition thereby signify their assent to all the Rules and 

 Regulations, General and Special. 



