278 AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SHOW AND FAIR OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 
For the second best do., silver medal. 
For the best brood mare, gold medal or silver cup, 
$15. 
For the second best brood mare, silver medal. 
For the best colt, not exceeding two years old, silver 
cup, $8. 
For the best Jack, silver cup, $8. 
POULTRY. 
For the best pair of turkeys, 
For the best pair of Bremen geese, 
For the best pair of tame “ 
For the best pair of mongrel “ 
For the best pair of Muscovy ducks, 
For the best pair of common <£ 
For the best pair of Dorking fowls, 
For the best pair of Buck’s Co. fowls, 
For the best pair of Spanish fowls, 
For the best pair of Poland fowls, 
For the best pair of capons, 
For the best assortment of pigeons, 
To each, a volume of the Transactions of the Ameri¬ 
can Institute. 
To avoid confusion incident to exhibitions of this 
kind, the owners and exhibitors of cattle are requested 
to observe the following 
REGULATIONS. 
1. All entries of stock must be made in writing, at 
the committee room, Yauxhall Garden, on Monday, the 
14th 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, milk¬ 
ing or fattening qualities, as they may see fit to append. 
If previously sent to T. B. Wakeman, corresponding 
secretary of the Institute, they will be attended to. 
This is absolutely necessary, that the secretary may be 
able to prepare a catalogue in time for the use of the 
examining committee; and neither the Secretary nor 
the committee will be responsible for the omission of 
any animal on the catalogue, if this rule is not com¬ 
plied with. 
2. All animals must be upon the ground by 9 o’clock, 
A. M., on Wednesday, Oct. 16, attended by their own¬ 
ers or keepers, for the inspection of the examining 
committee. 
3. The judges upon stock will meet at Vauxhall 
Garden, at half past 8 o’clock, A. M., on the 16th 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 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. 
6. The rule in force at former fairs, of excluding an¬ 
imals which have already taken prizes of the American 
Institute, is abolished, and the premiums are now open 
for competition without reservation. 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION. 
The committee would again earnestly solicit the 
friends of agriculture, horticulture, and of rural econ¬ 
omy, to participate with the managers of the American 
Institute in the promotion of American interests, by an 
exhibition of the fruits of their industry and skill at 
their Seventeenth Annual Show, next October. 
A spacious room will be provided for the reception of 
flowers, fruits, vegetables, agricultural and daily pro¬ 
ductions, garden implements, ornaments, paintings, and 
such other articles in connexion with the several 
branches, as may be forwarded for exhibition or com¬ 
petition. 
The managers have been again induced to offer ag¬ 
ricultural and horticultural books as premiums for su¬ 
perior specimens of garden and field productions, be¬ 
cause they consider mental acquirements the most en¬ 
during memorials; and as a beautifully embellished 
diploma will accompany each volume, it is presumed 
that competitors will prefer them to other premiums. 
As it is expected, from the lateness of the season 
in which the Show is unavoidably held, that there will 
be a deficiency of some kinds of garden products for 
which premiums are offered, the committee are author¬ 
ized to announce, that although the managers feel at 
liberty to withhold premiums when the articles exhib¬ 
ited are deemed inferior in their kinds by the judges, 
they have nevertheless determined to award all the 
book premiums offered, should sufficient articles be 
found to merit such premiums, and they have resolved 
further, to give discretionary premiums for extra sup¬ 
plies of flowers, or such other articles in the horticul¬ 
tural room as may be deemed by the judges as entitled 
to special distinction. 
All articles intended to be exhibited, should be de¬ 
livered as early as possible on Monday, the 7th of Oc¬ 
tober, 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. 
HORTICULTURAL PREMIUMS, &c. 
FLOWERS. 
For the best and greatest display of dahlias and 
other flowers exhibited during the Show, silver cup. 
For the second best supply, Colman’s European Ag¬ 
riculture and Rural Economy. 
For the third best supply, Downing’s Rural Archi¬ 
tecture. 
For the fourth best supply, Downing’s Cottage Ar¬ 
chitecture. 
For the fifth best supply, Hovey’s Magazine of Hor¬ 
ticulture, &c. 
For the sixth best supply, Mrs. Loudon’s Ladies’ 
Flower Garden. 
For the next large supply, American Flower Garden 
Directory. 
For the next best supply, Buist’s Rose Manual. 
For any further supply, Bridgeman’s Florists’ Guide. 
For the best assortment of American seedling dahlias, 
silver medal. 
For the best and greatest variety of cut flowers, 
Browne’s Trees of America. 
For the second best variety of cut flowers, Mrs. Lou¬ 
don’s Ladies’ Flower Garden. 
For the third best variety of cut flowers, American 
Flower Garden Directory. 
For the best and most beautiful boquet, Mrs. Lou¬ 
don’s Ladies’ Flower Garden. 
For the second best boquet, Hand Book of Plants. 
For the third best boquet, American Flower Garden 
Directory. 
For the fourth best boquet, Buist’s Rose Manual. 
For the fifth best boquet, Bridgeman’s Florist’s Guide. 
FRUIT. 
For the most successful vineyard culture of the na¬ 
tive grape, silver medal. 
