Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-10-04
Mrs c q NeElT66yy, besst Embroidered dress

4 Mrs c II MeElr6y, best Embroidered Dire;
for child s-es,fT z.r ia 7.---.-r.4
Best knit shawl; no award.
Miss lucy 8orr,, best fne' shirt, q r. %
| Mrs A Smith, best coarse shirt.
/ Mas P Nicholson, best leather work.
Miss Serena Randall, best pair ernbroidere,
| slippers. sa5a eaa.1 Il hva.H
Mrs W r Reid, best chlIds chrOebet sacA
Mrs Geo Hall, best chair tidy.
Mrs A Thomson, besf pair shell frames
< ! lAtiss A VaHdanah;3 . sests FGnoh CWOr ks,
collars and pair sleeves. 7e7ogE
Miss Ada Yandepan. best variety needl
work 'i'.'''' 77'iA aoia's' , -,'t
Miss NJ stay5aAn best variety crochet
work. -.7 .,4
Miss Eva Parker, best hair wreath,
| Co1mitse-Miss S Armstrong, Misa jenny
Root, Miss q s Clapp OH Rurly, Esq.
a7a 2o FEurs]I Il s9RlJ
Glass P. No. rl.--Leyi wOotring. best :
variety do. - - ~ . -''''-
a. Thomson, best collection Of Pears; Jas
N. Jameson, best l variety do. -r.,-l-I.,r,,,
d. F. Mccullough, best variety Plums.
g. w. Hall, best variety Peaches; Jacob
Weiser. bestl variety do4s IyrgIT
-Jaeob Weiser, best collection Quinces.
@, w, CliPpinger. best display Catawba
Grapes. --eSe-5l., ,e-5 lot gi199'I4 od-' =.
S, P. Vents, best display, Isabella Is do.
Fl. s. Mansur, best display Delaware do.
A. Thomson! BEST Rebeeea do. lH Fsir
A. Thomson, best collection fruit Of all
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f The Committee on fruits report TO the
President and Board Of Directors Of the Del
aware County Agricultural Society that they
have attended to the dnty assigned them, and
find the folIowing:- gentleman, Mr.. Geo
Nelson, who bad charge of the Fruit depart.
ment, received US very kindly and courteousIy,
and gave US free access to the table of f1uiis
with all its varieties; consisting Of apples.
peaches, pears, pluus, quinccs and grapes. In
this department of your exhibition there Ia a
very meagre display Of apples, pears, peach"s,
plums and quincesi these kinds of fruit were
nearly all destroyed by the severe frOsts last
spring, and the few that remained were great
ly injured by the present remarkably dry and
cold season. Your committee are of the opin-
ion that they never saw in any previous year
since your society has been in existence, the
fruit tablcs 50 poorly supported with fruit, ,ex-
eept the grape; and in this table the present !
year 50 far exceIls any thing that has ever
heretofore been exhibited, that it goes far to |
redeem the county, not only III her failure in |
other fruits, butin all other departments
Of the varieties exhibited there was not /
4 poor basket in the whole. The favor, size |
md rgen neral appearance we're remarkable, and
we're. imposing and tempting both to the eye /
md taste. In these particulars yoar commit |
ee had greatly the advantage of mere OUT /
ltterS. 1ftbe competition were between the /
grapes Themselves, the Delaware must be awnr.
rot oHly1as TO the grapes on this table, but in +
he. whole United States Of America, not ever I
Jcf. Davis new ConFederacy excepted, and yet |
he ISabcllI and CatawYa come in for a large
hare of the honor among the grapes of che
soFtd.aaf iag sa3 fif...5-...lr9 'srrr.-r aE
But as the competition is not between the
grapes, but the growers, 10 award justly your
committee did not find the task SO easy. Had
he grapes, and especially the Delawafcs, been
qualify ripe, and possessed shoulders. and1
engthr with compactness Of equal proportions /
he premiums would have been given to all, |.
With liberty to the competitors to divide thc1
money and give part TO the President and
our Committee. But as there was difIer-fa
nee in the above particulars the commitiec-E
'luced their premium cards. where in these re-
pects, they in their judgement, found tho
,reatest perfection. The grape, like every
hing, has a best condition and qua1ily-thct
aste moro than the EYE governs the Judgment
nd determines the quality Of the frnit. The
ize and beauty can never outweigh the inspid'
nd tic sour; thick skin and bard pulp,
The whole was a mastcrly lot Of grapes,
nd does great honor to the growers and 10
our society, and should greatly ystimnlAte T
rs to go and do likewise. NE elose, by say
ng that the COMMITTEES found one basket of
sabela grapes; which not only cxcclIed ali
IA the table, but all OF The kind ever exhibit:
o our view; and we are inclined to i1ie opin-
oE that its remarkable growth an favor
lust have been tho rcsnlt Of some artificial
lethod Of forging and imposing on the laws
f nature. All which We respectfully submit
Conmitiss.- II vfaa Dcfiiar,y 2 Avery and
Durfey. z'fu i=e lsri'aa yi'3ird eH
.f-.afA 81 GRArS AND SEED. aa'.et''t "a