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Rules for Exhibition (Mich. Hort. Society), continued. 



12. The true and legitimate purpose of the premiums offered is 

 to draw out the views of both exhibitors and committees respect- 

 ing the relative values, for the purposes specified, of the varieties 

 included in the exhibits. 



13. The society desires to encourage the planting of only a 

 sufficiently large variety of sorts for the desired purpose. Hence 

 it is important that the committee, in their reports, specify, in 

 the order of their value, the varieties upon which the determi- 

 nation of their awards is based. 



14. Useful and valuable varieties only are expected to influence 

 awards ; while indifferent sorts, even though large, showy and 

 attractive, should not for these reasons alone be held to add to 

 the value of an exhibit, except, possibly, as a means of education. 



15. An important object of the society is to collect valuable in- 

 formation of a pomological character. Committees are therefore 

 requested to gather all the information possible from the exhibi- 

 tors in their classes, and to make their reports as full as time 

 and circumstances will permit. 



1G. The society desires to foster a free exercise by exhibitors 

 of the principles of correct taste in the arrangement, display and 

 ornamentation of their exhibits. To this end, committees will 

 give all reasonable and proper consideration to particulars of 

 this character. 



If I could put my words in song, 

 And tell what's there enjoyed, 



All men would to my garden throng, 

 And leave the cities void. 



— Emerson. 



