NATIONAL PEANUT FESTIVAL & FAIR

DOTHAN, ALABAMA

NOVEMBER 2-10, 2007

HORTICULTURE

EXHIBITS

2007 

ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

State Aid to Fair

Through enabling act 1122, passed during the regular session of the 1969 Legislature, the Agriculture Center Board is co-sponsor of this year's National Peanut Festival and Fair and pays a portion of the premiums, prizes, and awards listed in the program. 

RON SPARKS

COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE

CHAIRMAN, AGRICULTURE CENTER BOARD

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HORTICULTURE EXHIBITS

  Department Chairmen

Crystal Foster          792-5192                 Seth Patterson          792-7216

Brenda Spann          794-2388                 Leona Patterson       794-4003

Scott Patterson         794-9148                 Shawn Patterson      793-5131

Jessica Atwell          793-8087

General Rules and Regulations (print rules & entry form)

1.  Applications must be in no later than Friday, October 26, 2007.  Mail your entry to National Peanut Festival, 5622 Highway 231 South, Dothan, Alabama 36301.

 2.  All entries must be placed between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., Thursday, November 1, in the Festival Premium Building.  No entries will be accepted any other time.

3.  Plants must remain through Sunday, November 11 and CANNOT be picked up without a claim check.  Pickup time will be Sunday, November 11, from 1:00-3:00 p.m.  Entries not picked up during this time become the property of the Festival.

4.  Only one entry per person per DIVISION.  Each entry is to be picked up by the person that won the prize whether it is a ribbon, money, or a tray.   

5.  The Festival will exercise every possible means of care, but cannot be responsible for loss or damage.

6.  Entry forms must be completed with each entry on a SEPARATE  FORM with division and class indicated.  All specimens must be named, giving genus and species.

7.  Show is judged by state certified judges.

8.  A silver tray winner is not eligible the following year to enter the same plant.

9.  Competition is open to amateur gardeners whether members of a Garden Club or not.

10. The Committee can reclassify any entry at their discretion.

11. In Cut Flower Class – containers are furnished.  No artificial coloring. Cut specimens should not have any foliage below the water line.

12. All horticulture specimens must be fresh plant materials grown by exhibitors.  Container grown plants must have been in exhibitor’s possession at least 90 days except for multiple plantings, which must have been in exhibitor’s possession at least six weeks.

 13. Each class must have three or more entries to be judged.

 14. No professional or commercial growers are allowed to exhibit.

 PREMIUMS

1^st Place……………………………………………………………...$10.00

2^nd Place………………………………………………………………$5.00

3^rd Place……………………………………………………………….$3.00 

GRAND PRIZE………………………………...ROSETTE AND $15.00

1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd Place ribbons will be awarded in each class.  There is one rosette winner per division.  All rosette winners will compete for 1^st Place Overall and 2^nd Place Overall.  Silver trays are donated by WACHOVIA.

JUDGING CRITERIA

1.  Plant Appearance

     a. Overall appearance

     b. Uniform shape-indicating good rotation

     c. Clean pot and clean leaves (No Shine)

     d. Plant centered in pot

     e. Pot needs to compliment plant (PLANT IS BEING JUDGED NOT POT)

     f. No freshly dug or repotted plants

     g. No more than one plant in pot unless it is a dish garden

     h. Healthy color and free from scale & other diseases

     i. Plants should be neatly groomed

2.  Plant Rarity

3.  Difficulty in Growing Plant

4.  Size and Age of Plant

 This list is to help understand the judging of your plant.  The judges can disqualify any plant not meeting the judging criteria!!!

CLASS NO.

                I.  FERNS

                    A.  Boston Type                  C.  Maidenhair

                    B.  Asparagus Type                             D.  Any Other Type

                 II.  BEGONIAS

A.       Angel Wing                   C.  Any Other Type

B.       Beefsteak

            III.  SUCCULENTS

                 A.  Aloe-Burn Plant                              E.  Devil Backbone

                 B.  Hen & Chickens                              F.  Any Other Type

                 C.  Jade

                  D.  Mother-in-Law Tongues 

           IV.  CACTI

                A.  Desert (Thorns or Thorny)

                  B.  Jungle (Christmas/Thanksgiving)

            V.  AFRICAN VIOLETS

                  A.  Single Blossom                                C.  Miniature

                  B.  Double Blossom                               D.  Trailing

           VI.  DISH GARDENS

                  MUST BE AT LEAST 3 DIFFERENT PLANTS

          VII.  TROPICAL BLOOMING (MUST BE IN BLOOM)

                  A.  Bougainvillea                   D.  Anthurium

                  B.  Orchids                            E.  Any Other Type

                  C.  Bromeliad

         VII.  TROPICAL

                  A.  Palms                                               B.  Any Other Type

          IX.  FOLIAGE PLANTS (Pot Can’t Exceed 10”)

                 A.  Chinese Evergreen            E.  Philodendron

                 B.  Norfolk Pine                      F.  Syngonium

                 C.  Ficus                                 G.  Any Other Type

                 D.  Peace Lilly 

           X.  FOLIAGE PLANTS (Pot Must Exceed 10”)   

                 A.  Norfolk Pine                     E.  Philodendron

                 B.  Schefflera                          F.  Syngonium

                 C.  Ficus                                 G.  Any Other Type

         D.  Peace Lilly

 XI.  ANNUALS (CUT)

        A.  Zenia                                  C.  Cockscomb

        B.  Impatiens                           D.  Any Other Type

       XII.  PERENNIALS (CUT)

                A.  Dahlia                                                C.  Any Other Type

                B.  Combflower      

     XIII.  ROSES (CUT)

               A.  Hybrid Tea                          C.  Miniatures

               B.  Floribundas                         D.  Antiques

    XIV.  HANGING BASKETS

              A.  Ferns                                    D.  Other Blooming

              B.  Vining                                  E.  Any Other Type

              C.  Begonia

     XV.  BONSAI