VEGETABLE AND FRUIT EXHIBIT
(Senior and Junior Divisions)

Exhibit Superintendent - Katie Golembeski (860) 354-5886
Junior Division Superintendent - David Golembeski

Exhibit Rules:

1. All Senior and Junior Division entries must be placed between 8:30 am and 12:00 noon on Friday, August 15, 2008. No entries will be accepted after that time. The exhibit will be closed at 12:00 noon for preparation and judging.

2. The Junior Division is strictly for exhibitors age 15 and under who personally bring in their own vegetables for entry. Their entries must have been raised in their own garden, and have been tended and cared for during the growing season by the Junior exhibitors themselves. No parents, grandparents, etc are allowed to enter this division in the name of a Junior exhibitor.

3. The exhibitor is responsible for providing the exact class, variety, and number of specimens designated for judging for each entry. No exhibitor may have more than one entry in each class.

4. Each entry will be judged on uniformity in shape, size, color, and quality. Each entry should be of market size and eating quality; and be free from disease, insect and mechanical injury, and soil.

5. Specimens should be trimmed. Roots should be left on beets, turnips, carrots, leeks, celery, and onions. Leaves / tops removed from carrots, rhubarb and beets. Cabbage and cauliflower trimmed close so that only 3 or 4 leaves curl away from the head. Corn should be shucked.

6. "Best of Show" will be chosen from any class except Class 111. Exhibitors entering Class 111 - Other Vegetable Not Listed, must provide the correct variety name of the specimen entered.

7. Ribbons and premium checks must be picked up on Sunday, August 17, 2008 from 9 am to 5:30 pm. None will be mailed. Unclaimed prize money will be donated to the Bridgewater Fire Department. Note: Commercial growers receive ribbons but no premiums.

8. All entries become the property of the Fair Committee. None will be sold. All entries and containers (including all of the vegetable arrangement and bouquet containers) must remain on display until they are released at 6:00 pm on Sunday, August 17, 2008.

Class 1. FRUIT ARRANGEMENT

Best collection of 5 different varieties of fruits. Cannot contain baked goods, prepared food products or vegetables in the display. Fruit must be of market quality, in natural state and without decoration.

Class 2. VEGETABLE ARRANGEMENT

Best display often (10) or more different vegetables in a flat container or basket. Judged equally on: artistic appeal, specimen quality, number of species and types. Cannot contain baked goods, prepared food products or fruit in the display. Vegetables must be market quality and be in natural state and without decoration.

Class 3. SPECIMEN PLANTS

Any vegetable or fruit plant potted, settled, growing, and without wilt. Judged on appearance, maturity, labeling, apparent care, and forethought. Hanging displays welcome.

FRUITS:
Class 4. Apples (5 specimens)
Class 5. Blueberries (1/2 pint)
Class 6. Melon, any variety (1 specimen)
Class 7. Peaches (5 specimens)
Class 8. Pears (5 specimens)
Class 9. Any fruit not listed.

VEGETABLES:
Beans (10 pods)
Class 10. Green Flat
Class 11. Green Round
Class 12. Pole.Red
Class 13. Yellow Flat
Class 14. Yellow Round
Class 15. Purple
Class 16. Any Other Bean Variety
Class 17. Beets (3 specimens)
Class 18. Broccoli (1 bunch) Cabbage (1 head)
Class 19. Green
Class 20. Savoy
Class 21. Red
Class 22. Any Other Cabbage Variety
Class 23. Carrots (5 specimens)
Class 24. Cauliflower (1 head)
Class 25. Celery (1 head)
Class 26. Chard (1 plant) Corn (5 ears)
Class 27. Sweet, any variety
Class 28. Ornamental Corn
Cucumber (3 specimens)
Class 29. China Long
Class 30. Green Slicing
Class 31. Pickling Eggplant (1 specimen)
Class 32. Bi-Color
Class 33. Purple
Class 34. White
Class 35. Any Other Eggplant Variety Gourds
Class 36. Arrangement (8 specimens)
Class 37. Large (1 specimen) Herbs (1 container)
Class 38. Same Variety Bouquet
Class 39. Mixed Variety Bouquet
Class 40. Potted
Class 41. Kale (1 plant)
Class 42. Kohlrabi (1 plant) Lettuce (1 head/plant)
Class 43. Head, Green
Class 44. Head, Red
Class 45. Loose Leaf, Green
Class 46. Loose Leaf, Red Onions (3 specimens or as listed)
Class 47. Garlic
Class 48. Shallots
Class 49. Leeks (3 specimens)
Class 50. Scallions/ Bunching (5 specimens)
Class 51. Red
Class 52. White
Class 53. Yellow Globe
Class 54. Any Other Onion Variety
Class 55. Peas (10 pods) Peppers (3 specimens)
Class 56. Cherry
Class 57. Green Hot
Class 58. Green Sweet Bell
Class 59. Red / Yellow Sweet Bell
Class 60. Habanero
Class 61. Italian Frying
Class 62. Jalapeno
Class 63. Long Cayenne
Class 64. Yellow Hot
Class 65. Yellow Sweet
Class 66. Any Other Pepper Variety Potatoes (3 specimens)
Class 67. Blue / Purple
Class 68. Cobblers
Class 69. Fingerling
Class 70. Green Mountain
Class 71. Katahdin
Class 72. Kennebec
Class 73. Red
Class 74. Russet
Class 75. Yukon Gold
Class 76. Any Other Potato Variety Pumpkins (1 specimen or as listed)
Class 77. Connecticut Field or other large field variety
Class 78. Sugar
Class 79. Miniature - 3 specimens
Class 80. Rhubarb (4 stems) Squash (1 specimen)
Class 81. Acorn
Class 82. Butternut
Class 83. Crook Neck
Class 84. Spaghetti Squash
Class 85. Hubbard
Class 86. Scalloped / Patti Pan
Class 87. Straight Neck
Class 88. Green Zucchini
Class 89. Golden Zucchini
Class 90. Any Other Squash Variety
Tomatoes (3 specimens - or as noted)
Class 91. Beefsteak
Class 92. Better Boy
Class 93. Celebrity
Class 94. Early Girl
Class 95. Grape (7 specimens)
Class 96. Small Red Round / Pear, <=1" (7 specimens)
Class 97. Small Yellow Round / Pear,<=1" (7 specimens)
Class 98. Red Round / Pear, >1" (7 specimens)
Class 99. Yellow Round / Pear, >1" (7 specimens)
Class 100. Larger Italian Plum / Paste
Class 101. Smaller Plum / Juliet
Class 102. Jet Star
Class 103. Orange
Class 104. Pink
Class 105. Rutgers
Class 106. Yellow
Class 107. Heirloom
Class 108. Tomatillo
Class 109. Any Other Tomato Variety
Class 110. Turnip (3 specimens)
Class 111. Any Vegetable Not Listed
Class 112. Biggest Squash or Pumpkin
Class 113. Largest Zucchini
Class 114. Tallest Cornstalk
Class 115. Tallest Sunflower
Class 116. Vegetable Novelty
Class 117. Largest Tomato

Fruit and Vegetable Exhibit Premiums

Note: Class 117 - Largest Tomato

Senior Division:

Tomato must weigh at least 2 lbs. Tomato must have stem. Prize money donated by the Golembeski Family in memory of Stash Golembeski.

1st - $15
2nd - $10
3rd - $5

Junior Division:

Tomato must weigh at least 1 lb. Tomato must have stem. Prize money donated by the Golembeski Family in memory of Anna Golembeski.

1st - $15
2nd - $10
3rd - $5