Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-10-20
Ohio Fruit Show at the centennial.

The display of orchard and vineyard pro-
ducts of Ohio, at the Centennial the past
week, was highly ereditable to the State and
to the twenty-four counties which contrib
| uted to the same. The fruit was examined
with satisfaction by hundreds Of citizens Of
| Ohi0 who were among the thousands of
| daily visitors; and all admitted that it
compared favOrably with the display from
any other State, although many of the
samples were not as highly colored as those
| from California, nor quite as free from
worms and smut as those from the young
orchards of Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa,
where these evils have not yet become
| troublesome. Our collection consisted Of
| 1000, plates and covered five tables in the
| vast hall. No other State exhibits larger
or better collection Of apples. and none
/ could show contributions of this fruit from
counties or so large breadth OF territory.
Had the time of the exhibition been a
/ couple of weeks later, so that the apples of
| the northern part of the state could have
| shown to advantage, there would have been
a much larger and finer display. OF course
there were but few pears or peaches from
Ohio, as these fruits are general failure
in this and other Western States. The
contributions were as follows:
ty, by F. Granger, Toledo, 48 varieties of
apples and 10 Of pears.
Northwestern Horticultural Society,
Williams Co., 90 varieties of apples and s
of peaches.
Richland Co. Society, By F. R. Palmer,
Mansfield, 80 varieties of good apples.
Eastern Ohio Society, Belmont and
Guernsey counties, 1O5 varieties apples.
Ross County Society, by Scott 6 Hurst,
Chillicothe. 30 varieties apples, pears and
of plums.
Columbia county, by g. H. Coulson, 100
varieties apples and a few pears.
Erie county, by Reynolds & Stow, Huron,
40 varieties apples and nice lot of grapes.
Clarke county, by P. H. Murphy, Spring
field, barrel of specimens of nice apples,
and few pears.
Fairfield county, by Fetters & Burr, fine
lot apples from the State Fair.
Clermont county, by J. II. Teal, barrel
of good specimens from the State Fair.
Jefferson county, by ]. F. Oliver, Steu-
benville, two barrels fine apples.
Washington county, by JOS Wood, Ma
rietta, % varieties fine apples.
Knox county, by n. P. Starr, Mt. Yer
non, 25 varieties apples.
Perry county. by S.-W. Lentz, Somerset,
OU varieties appleS.
Franklin county, by E. Manning, Har-
risburg, barrel of apples with a few pears
Warren County Horticultural Society
sent "a barrel Of fine specimens from Leba-
non.
Fulton county, by P. F. Chambard, Fay
cite, about 80 varieties of apples.
Pickaway County Society (Circleville)
about 80 varieties apples.
Ashtabula county, by A ID. Strong,
Ashtabula, nice lot Of apples, samples OF
apple jelly and fine cider.
Lake county, by R. Marshal, Painesville,
barrel Of good apples.
Clinton county, by L. Weltz, Whining
ton, 30 varieties apples, 8 pears and one
peaches.
Montgomery county, VIM. Ramsey, Day
ton, few fine pears and peaches.
Delaware county, G. W. Campbell, Del
aware, six plates new grapes.
Cuyahoga county, L. A. CahOon, Dover,
assortment of nice grapes.
The other States making large shows OF
fruit were Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Kan
sas, California, Connecticut and Massaehu-
setts, with fair showing from Indiana
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and New York.
The fruit growers of Western n. Y. gener-
ally excused themselves from exhibition
by the plea that their apples were not sufti-
GENTLY mature. Ellwagner & Barry, OF
Rochester, exhibited a large assortment OF
pears and plums, and there were some good
lots Of grapes from that State. There
were good pears from Massachusetts,, and
few from Pennsylvania, but the latter
State had a separate fruit and flower show
ofits own IN the city at the same time.
There was a good display Of apples, pears
and plums from the Province Of Ontario.
B.