Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-08-21
FOr the JOurnHI.
County Fair-FlOral Hall.

NOunly fu1F-E1OEdA Hail.
FRIEND MAn1N:- II have taken deeper in
terest in this department of the unusual at
traction of our fair, than l have in the
trotting matches. And although l do not
approve of all that has been done on that
fair ground in the way of - --, yet
so far as our County Agricultural Society
have used their laborious and untiring efforts
to promote the true intent and purpose of the
Society-to get up a fair Of surprising gran
duer and excellence for the promotion of all
the industrial pursuits-l join heart and hand
in mot only what they have done, but all
that they are going to do for that end" in
the words of loyal man upon the Admins
tration of our Government; so let us unite, for
;" in union there is strength"
If fast horses are to be the main feature of
the fair for one class, so will we make Floral
Hall main feature for the lovers of fruit and
flowers for the refined in Society, for the Ia
dies and children, for the loved ones at home,
and the lovely and attractive features of a
beloved homestead, for the naturalist and
philosopher, for the sober and thinking mind,
the true patriot who loves those finer, higher
chords, which bind a nation together.
In these sentiments l speak whereof
know; for many years have been in the
habit Of associating with the Horticulturalists
their social gatherings and in their public
10, %bof ic
other employment or society, save the Chris
tan church, that has so pure and holy an
influence as horticulture. With this view,
then, many of the friends of our County So
ciety have joined together in designing Hall
to be most beautifully decorated and filled
with the most choice productions of the veg
| etablc kingdom, with a beautiful running
fountain of pure water at one end, uncovered
in natures living green, with its rough and
rural features and moss covered rocks. We
have not trusted to our own ability to put the
elegant and crowning touch upon this feature,
but we have sent to Burlington for Neatly
Brothers & Bouck, and to Iowa City for
Westphal & Staple-Mr Westphal, who ar
ranged Hall at the United st ties Fair at
Chicago, and took the people and gardeners
of that " Garden City" by surprise, and car
ried off the highest premiums and praise at
our nations great exhibition.
Some persons in our own county may
think that their fruit or their flowers aid
plants will not draw premium, or will not
be worth exhibiting by the side of the prom
sed collections from abroad. But there are
great many premiums offered, some in the
professional and some in the common list.
1t will be sgrace to the people of this
county if we do not fill three fourths of the
stands and tables in this hall. Let every Que
bring basket of apples, peaches, plums, or
other fruit, and enter it for premium, that
Muscatine may count hundred entries in
the Aighe" branch of industry-horticul
ture.
P.S.-A thought has occurred to me.
will put in the Treasurer's hands So 90
81 90 for the greatest and most beautiful col
lection of wild prairie flowers, and 81 90 for
the second best, provided the committee on
! flowers regard them worthy of said pre-.
miums. Girls, bring them in in boquets and
in baskets, and all kinds of flowers from your
yards.
This makes 1922 of premiums offered in
this department-fruit and flowers.
| SUEL FOSTER.