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to and from the garden, provided a detailed statement is signed by 

 the exhibitor as a declaration of its correctness. 



Exhibitors are required to notify in writing, previous to the day 

 of meeting, what they intend to supply, in order that due provision 

 may be made for the proper distribution of the plants, &c, on the 

 exhibition tables. The best places are secured for those who 

 comply with this request. 



As the garden is opened at 1 p. m. for the admission of visitors, 

 it is necessary that the judges should proceed to consider the 

 respective merits of the exhibitions by 11 a.m., and as it is abso- 

 lutely indispensable that the tables should be in order by that time, 

 no subject for exhibition is admitted into the garden after half- 

 past nine o'clock in the morning ; and if the owners of any locked- 

 up boxes, or other cases already received, are not in the exhibition 

 tent at the said hour, such cases or boxes are excluded from com- 

 petition for medals. 



All specimens, whether of fruit or flowers, remain untouched 

 until after six o'clock, when they are delivered into the hands of 

 the exhibitors, who are most particularly requested not to give 

 away their cut flowers in the tents, as much confusion has occa- 

 sionally been produced by that practice. 



Exhibitors, or other persons required to assist in bringing in the 

 objects for exhibition, are admitted before half-past nine in the 

 morning. 



Every principal exhibitor is furnished with one pass-ticket, which 

 is not transferable, for which he is to apply before eleven o'clock, 

 at which hour the garden is cleared of all persons not officially 

 detained there. 



Exhibitors may re-enter the garden after one o'clock, when 

 they are required to deliver up their pass-tickets. 



Provision is made by the Society for placing on the tables such 

 specimens as may be furnished by exhibitors ; but as some flowers 

 travel most securely when fixed permanently in boxes, and as many 



