The Portland daily press., 1877-09-28
STATE Psychological AS sOCgA
TION.
Second Day of the Exhibition at Water.
Vile.


have improved the opportunity of seeing the
pest fruit, flowers, vegetables, &c. which our
state produces But we feel confident that
many more would be in attendance if they but
knew that the collections in the three depart-
ments-fruit, flowers and vegetables-were the
best ever on exhibition in the state This fact
| is admitted BY all.
since yesterday there have been more entries
| made, especially in the flower department. We
| give somewhat defnte account of the exhib-
itors and the number of varieties: Mrs Chas
Stanley, Winthrop, about 600 varieties; Mrs.
A. B. Strattard, Monroe, 800; Mrs. George B.
Sawyer, Wiscasset. 30o Mrs. j. W. Britton.
Winslow, 250; Mrs. De Rocher, Wateryille.
1856; Mrs Moses Getchell. Waterville, 135, and
Miss Addie Perkins, Fairfield, 1SO. These
were arranged on the walls of the gallery at the
ends and sides, and better floral display is.
seldom seen.
The vegetable department is 10 charge of Mr..
j. w. Lang of Brooks Ii is in the hall on
the ground floor. There are i've tables extend
ing across the room laden with the finest veg
etables About the wall hang traces of various
klnds OF corn, yellow, pop, sweet, sc. We no.
tIce some OF the exhibitors: w. Fl. Pearson,
North Vassalboro; Weymouth Jones, Wins.
low; +. e. Monell,i Fairfield; Alfred Smith,
Monmouth; JAS Hoxie, Fairfield. and Milton
Dyer, Cape Elizabeth, sshow fine lot of yeg
etaoles In general Others having vegetables
OF various kinds are j. W. Laug, Brooks: r.
ID: Gardiner, Gardiner; j. Matthews, Water
vile, and Mrs. A. B. Strattard Monroe The
potatoes especially deserve attention, Mr.. Pear
son having IA different kinds; Million DYER.
Cape Elizabeth, s. a. A. Gilbert, East Turner,
z; 5. Sweetsr, Cum berland, s Mr., Sweet
sir considers the Burbank Seeding aud the
Snowflake the best, the former for a late and
the latter for an early variety.
Frank Bowman and brother of SYDNEY have
some meritorious fruit trees on exhibition from
their nursery Ia Sydney. The greatest show of
all is made by Peter De Rocher of Waterylle
who occupies all of one table and part of an
olner. we notice at one end mammoth
| squash which when compared with the little
| one by its side reminds one of David and Co.
liath. There are in addition to very fine ordi-
nary klDds some very rare species Ground-
| nuts, four varieties OF egg plants fancy gourds
gnerklns, martyrlas, kopl robbis, SC The
| most remarkable are the good sized sweet pota-
| toes and the peanuts on the roots as thew come
| from the earth. He has one beet which weighs
| 10 pounds-three weighing 80 pounds: also to-
bacco stalks some feet high with leaves feet
| long. When we take the whole display to-
| gether it is hard to be equaled.
APPLES.
| Ihe display OF apples is particularly good :.
Penobscot stands at the head, whose chief rep
resentatives are j. S. Leighton of Garland and
| 5. U. Harlow OF Bangor. Mr. Leighton has
60 varieties, some of which are very large. The
Peach Blow is very large apple, good bearer
ana marcy Tree. Ine Alexander is a very fine
| cooking APPLE large, red and a great bearer
He considers the ST. Lawrence good fall an
| Pile.
S. Q. Harlow has 65 varieties. His displav
| IS a fine one. One of his favorites is the Viii
liams' Fayorlte. The Duchess of Oldenburg is
very hardy apple, a great bearer and sure to
SUIT all. The President is a new variety of fall
frat. His best sweet apples are the Pound
Sweet and the Danvers. The Beauty of Kent
IS saleable apple, also the Yellow Belle Flow
| er and Wagner.
For Cumberland county the exhibitors are s.
K. Sweetsir of Cumberland, f. w. Chase of
| North Yarmouth, and G. E Over of Cane
Elizabeth. Mr.. Sweetsir exhibits 68 kinds.
he considers the Gravenstein and Eariy Straw
perry the best for fall uss-for winter the
n orthern Spy, IL. |. Greening and King of
Iompkins County. Mr.. Chase has 20 varieties.
His Porter was particularly good. His Pump-
KIN Sweets are also very fine apple. Mr..
| Dyer shows 10 varieties
| j. W. Lang of Brooks presents 80 varieties
a large number of which are seedlings. 1t is
the largest and best collection ever exhibited
from Waldo county. +. Corey of Turner shows
% varieties. Henry Ingalls, of Wiscasset ex.
hlbis q varieties. His choice fall kinds are
Coles Queen, Washington Strawberry. Amer
leah Summer PearmaIn, and Early Strawberrv
winter varieties are the Fallowater, Hub
5ardstone Nonesuch, and all the s.andar
kinds.
Alfred Smith of Monmouth has 30 varieties
among which are some very fine ones. Daniel
aver OF North Vassalboro, 80 varieties; f. e.
| NOVEL; of Fairfield, 35 varieties; Josenb Tav.
lor Of Belgrade, so varieties, containing severa
seedlings; James Hoxie of North Fairfield, q
varieties; r. 81. Gardiner of Gardiner, q yari-
cites
In plates of ten we noticed some remarkably
hne specimens. Among those worthy of note
are Baldwins and Northern Spys by S. r
SWeetsir of Cumberland, Pulsifer Bros of Pc
Leighton Of Garland; Bloomfield by e. r
Whitney of Harrison; Mother and Porter by
ID. M. Chase of North Yarmouth, Heury La.
gals of Wiscasset, E. K Whitney of Harrison
and Milton Dyer of Cape Elizabeth.
PEARS.
Henry Ingalls, of Wiscasset has the larges
number of varieties, embracing all the stand
ard kinds. His largest ones were the Beurre
| Superfne. He considers the Beurre d'ApioI
as very fine. Samuel Rolfe of Portland come,
next, having "a varieties. His best are the
bartlett, Duchess fAngouleme, Louise Bonn,
Jersey and the the Sheldon. Joseph Taylor
Oh helgrade has IA varieties; Alfred Smith O
Won MoUnnoutn, ~; Henry Mclaughlin of Bangor
y. opa9ldlng of Hallowell 13; and G. B.
sawyer OF Wiscasset, 5. Special attention i
uIecseu 10 Flemish Beauties by Messrs. Sweet
sr oI cumberland. and Leighton of Garland
Uu1 ~ piaoe oI very line ones is shown by Mrs
H. b Lasselle of Watervile.
5. q. Harlow OF Bangor presents IN voriot;os
His dish of Flemish Beauties attracts mncl
attention. be considers them the most profit
1 able pear to raise He has a seedlino yh;cl