JTily 20, 1871. 1 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



49 



Subscriptions are payable in advance, and for the whole year at once. 

 Members are of three classes : — 



Ordinary sabscribers, called also White Ttclcet Menibers, paying not 

 less than 2;?. &d. yearly: unless they be small tradesmen, whom 

 the commitee may admit at. Is. yearly. 

 Cottagers, called also Med Ticket Members, paying 6d. yearly, or if 



in the Provident Society, 4d. 

 '■Children, called also Green Ticket Mernhns, paying yearly, if in the 

 pariah Sunday School, H. ; if not, 3(1., or 2<l. according as their 

 parents are, or are not, in the Provident Society. 

 Yonng persons, above the age of children, living at home with their 

 ■parents, pay, on becoming memberrt, half of what their pdvonts do or 

 would pay, bat never above Is. each ; and their specimens will be 

 judged along with those of the class to which their parents do or would 

 belong. 



4. The Show Days.— The Spring show is on, or as near. Royal 

 ■Oak day (29th May) as it can be conveniently fixed. A Summer 

 show is occasionally held in July or August. The Autumn show is in" 

 the middle of September, or as soon after as the harvest of the season 

 will allow. The day of each show is fixed by the committee according 

 to the forwardness of the season, and so as not to interfere with tie 

 neighbouring markets or fairs, nor to fall on Saturday or Monday. 

 "The village crier goes round the parish with notice a week before, and 

 a few circulars are sent beforehand to the neighbouring towns and 

 Tillages. The doors of the thow are opened to the public at three 



•o'clock. 



5. The Specimens. — All specimens shown for any purpose must 

 really belong to the member showing them. If shown for prizes, they 

 must have been raised in the parish by the member, or must have been 

 -growing for three months before in the member's own garden, house, 

 allotment, or field, in the parish. Blushrooms, wild flowers, wild fruits, 

 ■wild pot-herbs, shown for prizes, must have been gathered wild in the 

 parish by the member showing them. Flowers or plants which cannot 

 be shown for prize, may be shown for ornament or sale, providing they 

 really belong to the member showing them ; and have the owner's name, 

 or the words, " not shown for prize," distinctly marked upon them. 

 The quantity sent as a specimen must be sufficient for fairly judging 

 ihe general quality, but need not be more — for instance, eight of com- 

 mon fruits, roots, Seakale, Rhubarb, &c ; four of fine fruits, Celery, 

 Lettuce, Artichoke, &c. ; two of Cauliflower, Cabbage, Cucumbers, 

 Gourds, Mangel- Wurt/'el, &e ; fifty Asparagus; a pound or pint of 

 ■small fruits, early Peas, early Potatoes, &c. ; half a gallon, or a Society's 

 ^platefl1l, of Potatoes, Peas, Beans, &c. 



The same specimen cannot gain more than one prize in a year, and, 

 if shown again, should have the owner's name. (For children's speci- 

 mens, see the list of prizes which follow these rules.) No member 

 can have two prizes for two different specimens of the same article. A 

 certain amount or number of prizes will be fixed, beyond which the 

 tspecimens of any professed gardener cannot gain. 



6. Judging- the Specimens. — The judge or judges are appointed 

 Iby the committee. No specimen beloni^ing to any judge can be shown 

 lor prizes in that show for which he is judge. If shown at all it must 

 bear his name. The room shall be ready for the judges at twelve 

 o'clock; but, whether or not, the judcte shall not enter it until the 

 Epecimens are all finally arranged, and no person but the judges shall 

 be in the room at the time of judging. No specimen wbii-h has the 

 owner's name upon it, or the owner of which is or has been in any 

 way made known to any of the judges, or which has upon it no ticket, 

 can gain a prize under any circumstances. The specimens with white 

 tickets, those with red tickets, and those with green tickets, shall be 

 judged as three separate classes ; each specimen against the others 

 bearing its own colour of ticket, and not against specimens bearing any 



-other colour than its own. 



7. Admission to the Shows. — The door is opened to the public at 

 three o'clock. Every memler has free admission to each show of the 

 year, for himself and his wife ; but cannot send any other person 

 instead, nor take in, without payment, either a friend or child of any 

 age. No person, except a member or his wife, can come into the room 

 at any time of the day or evenin'j without paying. 



Visitors pay not less than 6'?. each for admission to each show. 

 "Cottagers, whether of the parish or not, pay Id. each. Children, 

 whether in arms or not, half-price. 



A bos. or bag is at the door to receive the donations of any visitor 

 •'ffho may be willing to aid the funds. 



No one is permitted to touch the specimens. The man in charge of 

 'the room is directed to turn out any person, whether member or visi- 

 tor, who injures the specimens or acts improperly. Dogs are not 

 allowed in the show-room. 



At night, when the specimens are about to be removed, no more 

 visitors, nor members who have not specimens in the show, will be 

 admitted ; and visitors already in, or members not having specimens 

 there, must leave the room. 



8. Rules for Preventing Confusion. — The show-room is open to 

 receivei specimens at eight o'clock in the morning, and specimens not 

 brought into the room before a quarter-past ten will be refused ; or if 

 fchown, must have the owner's name on them without a ticket, and can- 

 not gain a prize. 



Each specimen as it is brought is entered in the show book (on the 

 ■white, red, or green page, according as it belongs to an ordinary mem- 

 heij a cottager, or a child) along with the owner's name and his 



number for that show ; and a separate ticket, answering in colour and 

 number to the entry in the show book, is fixed to every specimen 

 brought by that member. 



Every member must bring in all his specimens at one time, and 

 must see that a ticket with his own number is put upon each of his 

 specimens. Not more than two members with specimens are allowed 

 in the room at the same time. 



At the End of the Show. — No member must move or take away 

 his own specimens until some person appointed by the committee give 

 each specimen to its owner. 



Children's prizes will be first paid and their specimens removed, 

 and the room cleared of all children ; nor after this, will children be 

 allowed to come in again. 



Cottagers' prizes are next paid, and their specimens given out, and 

 those who have received their specimens, or have none in the show, 

 must leave the room entirely. In coming at the last to take away their 

 specimens, it is desirable, in order to avoid crowding, that members 

 should come as much as possible in turns, or only a few at once. If a 

 member wish friends or relations who have not paid for admission to 

 help in removing specimens, those friends or relations must stay out- 

 side of the show-room outer gate. 



The white ticket members will receive their prizes and specimens 

 after the cottage members are done with. 



Specimens of fruits, roots, or vegetables unclaimed at the end of 

 the show will be sold for the benefit of the Society. 



List of the Prizes offered. 

 Class I. — For Fruits and Vegetables usually Grown for Food. 



The best specimens in their seasons of fruits, vegetables, roots. 

 Mushrooms, salads, pot-herbs, or Beet and Mangel- Wurtzel leaves 

 for use as Spinach. 



The best specimens at the Spring show, of old Apples, old Onions, 

 and old Potatoes. 



The best collection of six or more various sorts of the same fruit, 

 root, or vegetable. 



Class IT. — For Open-air Flowers. 



The best .single blossom of flower or shrub grown wholly in the 

 open air. 



The best mixed garden nosegay (without wild flowers.) 



The best mixed nosegay of choice open-air flowers. 



The best bunch, plate, or collection, of different sorts of the same 

 open-air flower. According to the competition, there will be one prize 

 among all the collections, or one for the best Eoses, another for the 

 best Pansies, &c. 



Class III. — For QreerJiouse [or tender) Floivers. 



The best greenhouse (or tender) plant in blossom. 



The lest collection (in flower-pots) of six or more different sorts of 

 the same such plant in blossom. 



The best collection of different sorts of the same greenhouse (or 

 tender) flower. 



The best mixed nosegay of such flowers. 



Class IV. — For Bees ; provided three or more Members are Bee- 

 keepers. 



The earliest thriving swarm of bees. 



The heaviest hive of honey (not less than 20 lbs.). 



The greatest number of thriving swarms (not fewer than four), in 

 one year. 



The greatest weight of honey (not less than 50 lbs.), taken in one 

 year. 



The greatest weight of honey (not less than 1 lb. from one hive), 

 taken in one year without destroying the bees. 



Class V. — For Allotments, Gardens, and Samples of Grain, <&c. 



The Churchclose allotment which the churchwardens, after ex- 

 amination at three seasons, shall declare to be the cleanest, best- 

 farmed, and best-cropped. [A first and second prize among allot- 

 ments of members, and a first among allotments not occupied by 

 members.] The prizes will be agricultural or gardening tools. 



The best-farmed, best-cropped, and cleanest allotment in any other 

 field in the parish, constantly let out in cottage allotments. [One 

 prize.] A tool, as above. 



The best samples of white grain (fifty ears each), grown on the 

 allotments of members. 



The best samples of Mangel- Wurtzel, Turnips, Peas, and Beans, 

 being part of a real crop of at least one pole in extent, on a member's 

 allotment. 



The best crop of Turnips, not less than ten poles, grown after some 

 other crop the same year, in any allotment. 



The cottage garden of a member, which after inspection in summer 

 and winter, shall have been found on the whole cleanest, neatest, best- 

 stocked, and best-cropped. [One or two prizes, according to cona- 

 petition.] 



Class YI.— For Cottages. 



The cottage of a member (who has occupied it a full year, and is not 

 above one quarter behind in bis rent), which shall, during the previous 

 six months, be found the cleanest, neatest, and most respectable- 

 looking, inside and outside. [A first and second prize.] The prize 

 will be some useful domestic article, chosen by the wife. 



The cottage of one who is not a member, which answers the above 

 conditions. [One prize, of the above kind.] 



