Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-10-22
rupcuAMpLAIN HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY

SOCIETY
Hold its Annual Fair ut Rutland on the
7tb inst Tho accounts Of it in the Rutland
p,pers were meagre in the extreme. WegaVe
t,a from tho Courier last week. The Brandon
Ia drocote adds something to tho account. IL
speaks highly of the decoration OF the hail by |
Ithe Ladies of Rutland, and adds
The fruit exhibited was by some eight or zen
Individuals Not specimen oil iruit was
nresentod from Rutland except, we believe,
10 few grapes PittsIord sent Il Single speci-
mon or two Brandon none at all, Tor whicn
,ye felt ashamed Uubbardton, sudbury,
darlington and plattsburgh had the honor
+ 6 making the exhibition what 1t was Us "
fruit. ii. ho,os, ne our
notes taken on the spot. owb;hited
DR.. J. Wheeler, Of Burlington cAh'o r',,r
f seven varieties of most beautiful grap ,'o
native and three foreign-also six ch2''o ,"
ricties of beautiful apples. We think tho'0
cranes were as fine as any We have seen e,
t Mr.. Albert Brcese, of ITubbardton, ezhib-
O. MAJ, seventeen varieties OF pears, ior'y.n.'
Varieties of apples, nineteen for cxhip''lI,,'
i .d tho others FIR a fruit-basket,. togetnei
with twelve varieties of grapes. ms Sen!,o
nan seems to be succeeding finely IN srownh:s
:, choice fruit &c also exhibited eleven '"r'o
- ties of potatoes-the bcst on exhibition,
Mr.. ]. NJ. Ketchum of Suo%"ry' i Met
Us good display, consisting of seventy We,
D. Of apples, forty of pears, fifteen OF grapu,
rs and three of plums. Mr.. n - wen n,aU
pr as one of the most extensive ana ~, su'I Las
:. cultivators of fruit in the Stats, lie noS
Is well stocked nursery from which u sup
II. I 4. n ,4,,,- hon
n Mr.. w. c. Hckok, of Burlington, T.
in hibited twenty charming specimens of al
pies. We also noticed six remarkably fir
Id Flemish Reantv neara from q NA"'oii
pittsford
Mr.. g. w. Bailey, of Pattsburgh, y. Y
- made the largest and best display of app
l. we recollect to have seen from one emily.
. TOR embracing one hundred and six vsrio+;
a --rp.,,-o truty sptendid exhibition.
There were seventeen varieties of pears c.
10 hibited by Mrs. D. A. Smalley, of Burin.
ton. Her fruit was exceedingly large an
iair, and each kind was in sufficient quaint
~ to look most charming and tempting
y Just such iruit as we might expect lady
r. cultivate, and display at such an exhibition
Inv -Nu'oSdIe says tnere were Dut ip
flowers, but some fine ones 1t concludes +
follows:
On the whole we congratulate the Con
50 mlttee of Arrangements on the success of tn
exhibition, but painfully regret that on
o. people, and especially the good people of Rut
he land. did not take deeper interest in tn
SO alihir. We hope the exhibitions of the s.
: clety may be continued, and we will tax
Tx the liberty to promise beforehand that
le the Society will appoint one of its exhibition
70 at Brandon, we will favor it with an au
=. dlencc fire times as large as we saw at Rut
land up to o'clock p NJ. and with a
u least as much Brandon fruit and vegetable
TO as Rutland presented on this occasion
lie we desire to see awakened a deeper inte
lo rest in the cultivation of choice fruit. VIII
should horsefesh take so much of the time
ID thought, and capital of Vermonters, AM
az iruit and fower-culture so little? We hop
- the men who are engaged in this good worl
:, may not become disheartened and abando,
~ their efforts. Success to the Champlail
Il valley Horticultural Society