Rules and Conditions

 

1.    Aberford resident classes:  All produce must have been grown by the exhibitor.

2.    Open classes: Any person may exhibit.

3.    Intending exhibitors must give notice on an official entry form not later than 8 pm on the eve of the show noting which class they intend to compete in, accompanied by an entry fee of 10 pence per entry.

4.    Cookery classes: Exhibitors in these classes will be permitted to enter exhibits to 10:30 am on the day of the show.

5.    Children’s classes: Free entry to classes but exhibits must be registered on an official entry form.

6.    It is expected that exhibitors will donate exhibits for sale at 3:15 pm in aid of society funds.  Exhibits not for sale must be clearly marked or removed before the auction held at 3:15 pm.

7.    Exhibits may be staged between 6:30pm and 8pm on Friday night and between 8:30am and 10:30 am on Saturday morning using their own containers for which the society holds no responsibility.  Exhibitors should vacate the village hall by 10:30am on the day of the show to allow to hall to be prepared for judging at 10:45am.

8.    The decisions of the judges will be final and they are empowered to withhold any prize where there is insufficient merit.

9.    Exhibitors may only take one prize per class.

10.    Prize money may be collected between 3.30 and 4.30 pm on the day of the show.  Unclaimed prize money will be put towards the show funds.

11.   Challenge Trophies:  After presentation these must be signed for and left for engraving.  After receiving them, the winners hold them until 1st August the following year when they must be returned in polished condition to the show secretary.

12.   Points: 1st = 5, 2nd = 3, 3rd = 1 (there will be no shared trophies)

13.   Prize money, except where stated otherwise, will be:                  

        1st = 60p, 2nd = 30p, 3rd = 10p.

14.   All trophy winners will be notified when to collect their trophies.

 

 Top Vase Class Rules (class 69)

 

·       A vase of mixed flowering stems containing a total of between five and tens stems, taken from a minimum of two different kinds of plants (note that two varieties of the same plant are NOT two kinds).

·       The display will be judged out of total of 35 points, split into: 25 points for the colour, form, condition, quality and freshness of the flowers on display, and 10 marks for the overall presentation and effect of the flowers in the vase.  The vase will be viewed from all directions.  Judging of the flowers will be to the normal rules used for other classes.

·       Stems used in the display must be showing flowers only: no seed heads or berries will be allowed.

·       The vase can be any shape and size and made from any material, but must be in proportion to the display.  No marks are awarded for the vase itself.

·       No accessories whatsoever - like bows and additional foliage - will be allowed.  Foliage which is growing naturally from the flowering stem, and still attached to that stem will be allowed.  Packing material, including floral foam, to keep stems in place is allowed.