GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS. 29 



Special Mules for Flowers and Plants. 



1. All named varieties of Plants and Flowers exhibited for 

 premiums, must have the name legibly and correctly written on 

 stiff card, wood, or some other permanent substance; and each 

 separate plant or flower must have its name attached, also have 

 the number of the prizes for which they are offered. 



2. Plants in Pots, to be entitled to Prizes, must evince skilful 

 culture in the profusion of bloom, and the beauty, symmetry and 

 vigor of the specimens. 



3. No person can compete for any Prize for a single specimen, 

 with a variety shown in a collection. 



4. When Prizes are offered for the same flower in different 

 classes, any person may exhibit in more than one class, but no 

 variety can be duplicated. 



5. All exhibitors, not strictly complying with the above rules, 

 will be excluded from competition for Premium. 



Special Rules for Fruits. 



1. All Fruits offered for Premiums must be correctly named. 

 Indefinite appellations, such as "Pippin," "Sweeting," "Green- 

 ing," will not be considered as names. 



2. All Fruits offered for Premiums must be composed of 

 exactly the number of specimens or quantity named in the 

 Schedule. A "dish" of Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Nec- 

 tarines, Quinces, Figs, Apricots, etc., is understood to contain 

 twelve specimens, and this number will be required of all Fruits 

 when not otherwise specified. 



3. The whole quantity required of any one variety of Fruit 

 must be shown in a single dish or basket. 



4. Contributors of Fruits for Exhibition or Prizes, must pre- 

 sent the same in the Society's dishes. Market baskets will not 

 be allowed on the tables. 



5. No person can compete for more than one Prize with the 

 same variety or varieties of Fruit; except that a single dish may 

 be of the same variety, — but not the same specimens, — as one of 

 a collection. 



6. Grapes grown on girdled vines cannot compete for a Pre- 

 mium. 



7. All Fruits offered for Prizes, except when otherwise stated, 

 and those for foreign Grapes, must be of out-door culture. 



8. The Fruit Judges, in making their awards, will con- 

 sider the flavor, beauty and size of the specimens, comparing 



