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4. All articles for competition must be in position on Wednes- 
day, May 14, by 1 P.M 
5. Competition is open to all, and all articles to be exhibited 
must be entered in writing in the owner’s name, by noon on 
Tuesday, May 13, and if for competition, must conform to the 
conditions of the premium list. 
6. Exhibitors and competitors may attach cards to their ex- 
hibits, as soon as staged; these cards will be furnished by the 
Secretary. 
7, The Exhibition Committee shall have power to exclude 
from the exhibition all inferior exhibits, or to remove any or part 
of any exhibit ; but no exhibit shall be removed by an exhibitor 
until the close of the exhibition. 
8. Cut flowers will be shown in vases furnished by the 
management. 
g. All flower pots used in the exhibition must be clean. 
10. Each person who becomes an exhibitor thereby agrees to 
conform strictly to such rules and regulations as the Council may 
make or authorize 
Exhibition Committee: H. A. Siebrecht, Chairman, F. M. 
Hexamer, W. Turner, J. W. Withers. 
Ex-Officio Members : James Wood, N. L. Britton, L. Barron. 
LEONARD Barron, Secretary. 
136 Liperty STREET, N. Y. City. 
AN ATTEMPT TO INTRODUCE A | alae 
INTO THE LOCAL FLOR 
Influenced primarily by a desire to furnish Mr. W. A. Cannon 
with material for experiments in hybridization, the writer, acting 
for the New York Botanical Garden, has recently secured from a 
friend in Pictou, Nova Scotia, a number of living fertile plants of , 
Fucus serratus ese were collected with much care, not only 
the disk-like holdfast being preserved but in many cases also a 
considerable portion of the rock to which it was attached. The 
ants were carefully packed with bog-mosses in a wooden box, 
and although four days intervened between the shipment at 
