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AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL FAIR OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 
kind, the owners and exhibitors of cattle are urgently 
requested to observe the following regulations. 
1. All entries of stock must be made, either verbally 
or in writing, at the manager’s room at Niblo’s Garden, 
on or before Monday, the 16th day of October, with 
full pedigrees of the animals, their breed, ages, owners’ 
names, &c., and with such observations, as to their 
food, thrift, constitution, milking or fattening qualities, 
as they may see fit to append. This is absolutely ne¬ 
cessary, that the Secretary may be able to prepare a 
'catalogue in time for the use of the examining Com¬ 
mittee ; and neither the secretary nor the committee 
will be responsible for the omission of any animal on 
the catalogue, if this rule is not complied with. 
2. All animals must be upon the ground by 9 o’clock 
A. M., on Wednesday, Oct. 18, attended by their own¬ 
ers or keepers, for the inspection of the examining 
committee. 
3. The judges upon stock will meet at Niblo’s Gar¬ 
den, at half past 8 o’clock A. M., on the 18th day of 
October, to organize, and proceed immediately to the 
discharge of their several duties. On the completion 
of their awards, the committees will append to each 
prize animal a certificate designating. the particular 
premium awarded. 
4. No animals can be removed after entry without 
the consent of the executive committee. 
5. All animals intended for sale (which this year will 
be by private contract), will be so designated on the 
catalogue. 
6. All animals will be admitted on the ground desig¬ 
nated for the exhibition, on the presentation of a ticket, 
which the owners or proprietors will obtain from the 
secretary at the time of entering the same. 
7. The rule in force at former fairs, of excluding 
animals which have already taken prizes of the Amer¬ 
ican Institute, is now abolished, and the premiums are 
now open for competition without reservation. 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION. 
The Committee on Horticulture, in conjunction with 
the Agricultural Board of the American Institute, en¬ 
couraged by the growing spirit of improvement, enter¬ 
prise, and generous emulation, manifested by the culti¬ 
vators of the soil at the last anniversary, are making 
extensive arrangements for their exhibition at the Six¬ 
teenth Annual Fair, next October. 
The committee hope, by making an early and earnest 
appeal to the producing classes, that, a still greater dis¬ 
play of the variety, richness, beauty, and perfection of 
agricultural and horticultural productions, will be exhi¬ 
bited to the public this year, than on any former occa¬ 
sion. With such anticipation, they would suggest to 
the orchardist, that he keep an eye to the preservation 
of the choicest of his fruit. The farmer and the gar¬ 
dener are also reminded that a free use of the plow 
and the hoe is essential to the production of good spe¬ 
cimens of edible roots. 
The committee, with a view to induce the hardy 
yeomanry of our country to study subjects connected 
with their important occupation, have been again in¬ 
duced to offer as premiums such publications as wer*e 
considered by them appropriate to the different objects; 
and as each volume will contain a .testimonial beauti¬ 
fully printed and embellished with gold, it is -presumed 
that competitors will prefer them to other premiums : 
if, however, any gentleman to whom a book is awarded 
should prefer a diploma, or a copy of any other work 
than the one offered, he will be accommodated, provided 
the one he makes choice of be of equal value. 
At our last annual fair, the decorations of the horti¬ 
cultural room were pronounced by the tens of thousands 
of visiters as the centre of attraction. The committee 
trust that all cultivators of flowers, both professional 
and amateur, will again unite in encouraging a more 
general taste for the beauties of nature. Especially 
do we desire to enlist the ladies of our city and its 
vicinity, who are so appropriately and successfully em¬ 
ployed in floriculture. It is hoped that they will 
combine their efforts in fostering an employment that 
is so eminently calculated to attach their companions 
to home, and thus increase domestic happiness. 
As the committee, from the lateness of the season m 
which the fair is held, anticipate a deficiency in some 
of the articles for which premiums are offered, they are 
authorized to announce, that although the managers 
feel at liberty to withhold premiums, where the articles 
are deemed inferior in their kinds by the judges, they 
have nevertheless determined to award all the book 
premiums offered, should sufficient articles not pre¬ 
viously provided for merit such premiums; and they 
have resolved farther, to award fifty copies of the Re¬ 
ports of the Institute, published by the senate of the 
state of New York, as discretionary premiums for 
supplies of flowers, or for such other articles in the 
horticultural room as may be deemed by the judges as 
entitled to especial distinction. 
Contributors are informed that the large room occu¬ 
pied last year in the north wing of the saloon, in Niblo’s 
Garden, will be appropriately fitted up for the recep¬ 
tion of agricultural and horticultural^productions, and 
that efficient measures will be adopted to insure a full 
and fair representation of each exhibiter, whose name 
will be attached in legible characters to every article 
he may offer for public inspection. 
All articles intended to be exhibited should be deliv¬ 
ered as early as possible on Monday, the ninth of Octo¬ 
ber, in order to have them properly arranged by 9 
o’clock on Tuesday morning, at which time the room 
will be opened to the public. 
Cultivators of flowers are respectfully invited to fur¬ 
nish fresh supplies on the morning of each day, which 
will be duly appreciated, and recorded on the annals of 
the institute. 
The following premiums are offered :— 
Flowers .—For the best and greatest display of green¬ 
house plants, a silver medal. 
For the best and greatest variety of cut flowers from 
greenhouse plants, Mrs. Loudon’s Ladies’ Flower Gar¬ 
den. 
For the second best variety of cut flowers, Hovey’s 
Magazine. 
For the third best variety of cut flowers, American 
Flower Garden Directory. 
For the best and most beautiful bouquet, a silver 
medal. 
For the second best bouquet, Mrs. Loudon’s Ladies’ 
Flower Garden. 
For the third best bouquet, American Flower Garden 
Directory. 
For the best and greatest display of dahlias and other 
flowers exhibited during the fair, a gold medal. 
For the second best supply, a silver medal. 
For the third best supply, Mrs. Loudon’s Ladies* 
Flower Garden. 
For the fourth best supply, Downing’s Rural Archi 
tecture. 
For the fifth best supply, Downing’s Cottage Archi 
tecture. 
I For the sixth best supply, Hovey’s Magazine of Hoi 
tieulture, &c. 
For any farther large supply,American Flower Gar 
den Directory. 
