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Rule four
The Bend Bulletin · August 2, 1916
In the story: 3. Wearing the promise, 1914–1916.
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What the cup was actually for, in the club's own lifetime, written down as a rule.
The mid-century Emblem Club cup was a prize with no club behind it, its category reinvented each August — a luncheon table arrangement in 1933, a miniature on a mirror in 1938, vegetables in 1942. This is what it looked like while the club still existed.
The committee published numbered rules, and noted they were the same as the previous year, which carries the arrangement back to 1915. Three of them are set apart below, because rule four only means what it means among its neighbours: they are about what one exhibitor may put in and how many prizes a single exhibit may take, and the Emblem cup sits inside that as the prize for the “general display”.
So the Emblem cup was the prize for the whole exhibit rather than a single bloom, and anyone wanting to enter for it had to notify the show secretary a week in advance so that space could be reserved. A settled arrangement, published, unchanged year to year.
The club had given the cup in 1912 to be kept by whoever won it three seasons running. Nobody ever did.
From the source
3. Each exhibitor must make his own selection for exhibition.
4. No flowers, plants or vegetables not included in the published list will be eligible for a prize except as part of the “general display” of flowers, for which the Emblem Club cup is offered.
5. An exhibit may not be entered for more than one prize.