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                                                                    Exhibit 10.9

                               THE SCOTTS COMPANY

                   2003 STOCK OPTION AND INCENTIVE EQUITY PLAN

                          AWARD AGREEMENT FOR DIRECTORS

The Scotts Company ("Company") believes that its business interests are best
served by ensuring that you have an opportunity to share in the Company's
business success. To this end, the Company adopted the 2003 Stock Option and
Incentive Equity Plan ("Plan") through which its directors may acquire (or share
in the appreciation of) shares of the Company's common stock.

We cannot guarantee that the value of your options (or the value of the stock
you acquire through an option) will increase. This is because the value of the
Company's stock is affected by many factors. However, the Company believes that
your efforts contribute to the value of the Company's stock and that the Plan
(and the options granted through the Plan) is an appropriate means of sharing
with you the value of your contribution to the Company's business success.

This Agreement describes the type of options that you have been granted and the
conditions that must be met before you may receive the value associated with
your options. To ensure you fully understand these terms and conditions, you
should:

         -        Carefully read this Award Agreement and the attached copies of
                  the Plan and Prospectus; and

         -        Call us at (937) 644-0011 if you have any questions about your
                  options. Or, you may send a written inquiry to:

                               The Scotts Company
                      Attn: Vice President Human Resources
                              14111 Scottslawn Road
                              Marysville, OH 43041

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                 DESCRIPTION OF YOUR NONQUALIFIED STOCK OPTIONS

YOU HAVE BEEN AWARDED NONQUALIFIED STOCK OPTIONS (or "NSOs") TO PURCHASE _____
SHARES OF COMPANY STOCK. You may purchase one share of the Company's common
stock for each NSO, but only if you pay $______ ("Exercise Price") for each
share purchased, you exercise the NSOs on or before __________ ("Expiration
Date") and meet the terms and conditions described in this Agreement and in the
Plan and in the Prospectus.

                         LIMITS ON EXERCISING YOUR NSOS

Your NSOs will vest (and be exercisable) on ______________ [6 months from grant
date][12 months from grant date]

This does not mean that you must exercise your NSOs on this date; this is merely
the first date that you may do so. However, your NSOs will expire unless they
are exercised on or before the Expiration Date.

There also are some special situations in which your options may vest earlier.
These are described later in this Agreement.

At any one time you may not exercise NSOs to buy fewer than 100 shares of
Company stock (or, if smaller, the number of your outstanding vested NSOs).
Also, you may never exercise an NSO to purchase a fractional share of Company
stock; NSOs for fractional shares will always be redeemed for cash.

                              EXERCISING YOUR NSOS

After they vest, you may exercise your NSOs by completing a form. This form, and
other procedures that you must follow, are available from Merrill Lynch or by
contacting us at the number (or address) shown above.

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                          GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY TO ALL OPTIONS ISSUED UNDER THIS AWARD
AGREEMENT. THIS IS MERELY A SUMMARY OF THESE IMPORTANT TERMS AND CONDITIONS; YOU
ARE URGED TO READ THE ENTIRE PLAN AND PROSPECTUS (COPIES OF WHICH ARE ATTACHED),
ALL OF THE TERMS OF WHICH ARE INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE INTO THIS AWARD
AGREEMENT.

1.00     LOSS OF AN OPTION.  There are ways in which you may forfeit your
         options.

[1]      IF YOUR DIRECTORSHIP TERMINATES  . . .

Normally, your options will expire on the date specified earlier in this
Agreement. However, these options may expire earlier than their Expiration Date
if your directorship terminates (as defined in the Plan).

         [a] If your directorship is terminated by the Company for cause (as
         defined in the Plan), the options will expire on the date your
         directorship ends; or

         [b] If your directorship terminates because you [i] die or [ii] become
         disabled (as defined in the Plan), the options will expire no later
         than 60 months after your directorship terminates; or

         [c] If your directorship terminates after you served one full term as a
         director, the options will expire no later than 60 months after your
         directorship terminates; or

         [d] If your directorship terminates for any other reason, your options
         will expire no later than 1 year after you terminate.

Note, it is your responsibility to keep track of when your options expire.

[2]      IF YOU ENGAGE IN CONDUCT THAT IS HARMFUL TO THE COMPANY
         (OR SUBSIDIARY) . . .

You also will forfeit any outstanding options and must return to the Company all
shares and other amounts you have received through the Plan if, without our
consent, you do any of the following within 180 days before and 730 days after
your directorship terminates:

         [a] You serve (or agree to serve) as an officer, director, consultant
         or employee of any proprietorship, partnership or corporation or become
         the owner of a business or a member of a partnership that competes with
         any portion of the Company's (or a Subsidiary's) business with which
         you have been involved anytime within five years before your
         directorship terminates or render any service (including, advertising
         business consulting) to entities that compete with any portion of the
         Company's (or a Subsidiary's) business with which you have been
         involved anytime within five years before your directorship terminates;

         [b] You refuse or fail to consult with, supply information to or
         otherwise cooperate with the Company after having been requested to do
         so;

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         [c] You deliberately engage in any action that we conclude has caused
         substantial harm to the interests of the Company or any Subsidiary;

         [d] On your own behalf or on behalf of any other person, partnership,
         association, corporation or other entity, solicit or in any manner
         attempt to influence or induce any employee of the Company or a
         Subsidiary to leave the Company's or Subsidiary's employment or use or
         disclose to any person, partnership, association, corporation or other
         entity any information obtained during your directorship concerning the
         names and addresses of the Company's and any Subsidiary's employees;

         [e] You disclose confidential and proprietary information relating to
         the Company's and its Subsidiaries' business affairs ("Trade Secrets"),
         including technical information, product information and formulae,
         processes, business and marketing plans, strategies, customer
         information and other information concerning the Company's and
         Subsidiaries' products, promotions, development, financing, expansion
         plans, business policies and practices, salaries and benefits and other
         forms of information considered by the Company to be proprietary and
         confidential and in the nature of Trade Secrets;

         [f] You fail to return all property (other than personal property),
         including keys, notes, memoranda, writings, lists, files, reports,
         customer lists, correspondence, tapes, disks, cards, surveys, maps,
         logs, machines, technical data, formulae or any other tangible property
         or document and any and all copies, duplicates or reproductions that
         you have produced or received or have otherwise been submitted to you
         in the course of your directorship; or

         [g] You engaged in conduct that the Committee reasonably concludes
         would have given rise to a termination of your directorship for cause
         (as defined in the Plan) had it been discovered before your
         directorship terminated.

2.00 BUY OUT/CANCELLATION OF OPTIONS BY COMPANY. We may decide at any time to
buy out your options. This may happen without your consent and at any time. If
we decide to buy out your options, we will pay you the difference between the
value of options that are exercisable (or vested) at that time and that are
being bought out and the Exercise Price associated with those options. However,
no payment will be made for any cancelled options that are not vested (and not
exercisable) on the cancellation date.

3.00     AMENDMENT/TERMINATION.  We may amend or terminate the Plan at any time.

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You must sign this Agreement; if you do not, your options will be cancelled. By
signing this Agreement you acknowledge that these options is granted under and
is subject to the terms and conditions described in this Agreement and in the
Plan.

OPTIONEE/GRANTEE                      THE SCOTTS COMPANY

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(date signed)                         (date signed)
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DATE OF THIS AGREEMENT:
                         -----------------------EX-4.1

 

Exhibit 4.1

    [FOR THE GLOBAL COMMON
SHARE CERTIFICATE: This Global Common Share Certificate is
held by The Depository Trust Company (the
“Depositary”) or its nominee in custody for the
benefit of the beneficial owners hereof and is not transferable
to any person under any circumstances except that this Global
Common Share Certificate may be transferred to a successor
Depositary with the prior written consent of Oglebay Norton
Company (the “Company”).

    Unless this Global Common
Share Certificate is presented by an authorized representative
of the Depositary to the Company for registration of transfer,
exchange or payment and any certificate issued is registered in
the name of Cede & Co. or such other entity as is requested
by an authorized representative of the Depositary (and any
payment hereon is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity
as is required by an authorized representative of the
Depositary), any transfer, pledge or other use hereof for value
or otherwise by or to any person is wrongful because the
registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.

    Transfers of this Global
Common Share Certificate will be limited to transfers in whole,
but not in part, to nominees of the Depositary or to a successor
thereof or such successor’s nominee.

    No registration of
transfer of the securities issuable pursuant to this Global
Common Share Certificate will be recorded on the books of the
Company until such provisions have been complied with.]

	 	 	 	 	 
	
	
	
	

	
    
    

    No.

     Transfer of Stock

    Represented by this Certificate

    is Restricted. See Reverse Side.

    	 	
    	 	
    

    Shares

     Transfer of Stock

    Represented by this Certificate

    is Restricted. See Reverse Side.
    

[Domestic] [Foreign] Share
Certificate

Oglebay Norton
Company

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF
THE STATE OF OHIO

COMMON SHARES, PAR VALUE $0.01 EACH

 

			
		 	
 

 

		
	This Certifies that	is the owner of

 SEE REVERSE SIDE
FOR

CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

FULLY PAID AND NONASSESSABLE COMMON SHARES OF
THE PAR VALUE OF $0.01 EACH, OF

Oglebay Norton
Company

transferable on the books of the Company
by the holder hereof in person or by duly authorized attorney
upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed.

This Certificate is not valid until
countersigned by the Transfer Agent and Registrar of the Company.

WITNESS the facsimile signatures of the
duly authorized officers of the Company.

	 	 	 	 	 
	
    
    Dated

    

    

    President
    

    	 	 	 	
    

    

    

    Secretary
    

COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED

NATIONAL CITY BANK

TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR

AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE

 

[FOR RESTRICTED
CERTIFICATE: THIS SECURITY HAS
NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE “SECURITIES ACT”) OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
THE HOLDER HEREOF, BY PURCHASING THIS SECURITY, AGREES FOR THE
BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE RESOLD,
PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED OTHER THAN (1) TO THE
COMPANY, (2) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (3) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH CASE IN
ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF
THE UNITED STATES.]

CITIZENSHIP CERTIFICATION

    United States merchant
marine laws require that, in order for the Company to continue
to own and operate vessels in the coastwise trade, at least 75%
of its outstanding stock must be owned by United States
citizens. The Second Amended Articles of Incorporation of
Oglebay Norton Company, dated     , 2004, as
the same may be amended from time to time (“Amended
Articles”), provides that any transfer or purported
transfer of Common Shares that would result in ownership by
Foreigners (as defined below) of more than a specified
percentage (the “Permitted Percentage”) of the stock
then outstanding will be subject to certain restrictions,
reservations and remedies as described in the Amended Articles.
The Company’s Board of Directors can vary the Permitted
Percentage between 25% and 22 1/2%, depending on the extent
of the margin that the Board determines is necessary to ensure
compliance with the United States merchant marine laws. The
Company will send to the holder of this certificate without
charge a copy of the provisions of the Amended Articles setting
forth the restrictions on transfer, reservations, and remedies
within five days after receipt of written request therefor.

    No transfer of the
Common Shares represented by this certificate will be registered
unless the following Citizenship Certification (or a separate
form of Citizenship Certification satisfactory to the Company)
is completed and signed by the transferee and submitted to the
transfer agent.

    The transferee certifies
that the transferee

		
	 	
    o is a
    Foreigner
    
	 	
    o is not
    a Foreigner
    

and that the beneficial owner of the
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock

		
	 	
    o is a
    Foreigner
    
	 	
    o is not
    a Foreigner.
    

    A Foreigner is
(i) any person (including an individual, a partnership, a
corporation, or an association) that is not a United States
citizen or is the representative of or fiduciary for any person
that is not a United States citizen; (ii) any foreign
government or the representative thereof; (iii) any
corporation, the president, chief executive officer or chairman
of the Board of which is a Foreigner, or of which more than a
minority of its Directors necessary to constitute a quorum are
Foreigners; (iv) any corporation organized under the laws
of any foreign government; (v) any corporation of which a
majority of its shares are owned beneficially or of record, or
may be voted by, Foreigners, or which by any other means
whatsoever is controlled by or in which control is permitted to
be exercised by Foreigners; (vi) any partnership or
association that is controlled by Foreigners; (vii) any
corporation of which a 25% or greater interest is owned
beneficially or of record by Foreigners and which may be deemed
to “control” the corporation (the Board being
authorized to determine reasonably the meaning of
“control” for this purpose); (viii) any other
person deemed by the Board to be a Foreigner as to the United
States or the Company (or any Subsidiary) or otherwise not
possessing prescribed qualifications to be a holder of
outstanding shares of the Company in accordance with the policy
set forth in the Company’s Amended Articles; or
(ix) any person who acts as representative of or fiduciary
for any person described in clauses (i) through
(viii) above.

    In the event of any
changes in laws, including any amendment to maritime laws
defining United States citizenship, the Board is specifically
authorized to take all actions as it deems appropriate and as
are in accordance with the law and the Amended Articles
including, but not limited to, making changes in the definitions
of Permitted Percentage and Foreigner.

	 	 	 	 	 
	
	
	
	

	
    
    Date:
    

    	 	
    
	 	
    

	 	 	 	 	
    Signature
    

EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS

    The following
abbreviations, when used in the inscription of ownership on the
face of this certificate, shall be construed as if they were
written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations.
Abbreviations, in addition to those appearing below, may be used.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	
    
    JT TEN
    

    	 	
    As joint tenants with right of survivorship
    	 	
    TEN ENT
    	 	
    As tenants by the entireties
    
	 	 	
    and not as tenants in common
    	 	
    UNIF GIFT MIN ACT
    	 	
    Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
    
	
    
    TEN COM
    

    	 	
    As tenants in common
    	 	
    CUST
    	 	
    Custodian for
    

   For Value Received,
                                             
HEREBY SELLS, ASSIGNS AND TRANSFERS UNTO

		
	
    PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER
    	 
	
    IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
    	 

 

			
			

_______________________________________________________

                                                                                                              
OF THE SHARES

REPRESENTED BY THE WITHIN CERTIFICATE AND DOES
HEREBY IRREVOCABLY CONSTITUTE AND APPOINT 

                                                                                   
ATTORNEY TO TRANSFER THE SAID SHARES

ON THE BOOKS OF THE WITHIN-NAMED CORPORATION WITH
FULL POWER OF SUBSTITUTION IN THE PREMISES.

DATED:
                                    
20     

		
	 	
    

	 
	 	
    NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST
    CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE
    CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR
    ENLARGEMENT, OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.
    

    The Company will send to
any shareholder without charge a copy of the express terms of
the shares represented by this certificate and of the other
classes and series of shares that the Company is authorized to
issue within five days of receipt of written request therefor.
Requests may be directed to Oglebay Norton Company, 1001
Lakeside Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44114, attention: Secretary.

THIS SPACE MUST NOT BE COVERED IN ANY WAY

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