Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-09-26
KENNEREC FRUIT.
what Exhibitors from the County Have
for Display at the state Fair.

Old kennebec may well be proud of her
worry representatives in the culture of fruits.
Miss l. L. Taylor, daughter of the late
Friend Taylor of Belgrade has fine dis
play of over sixty varieties of apples attract
ing the attention of the lovers of orchard pro.
ducts.
In the display are several varieties of ap-
Piles seldom seen.
Here is choice variety" saws Miss Tay
lor, which Is the only one raised in the State.
II is named the Detroit Red As it has he
come known have furnished large numbers
OF clons to individuals in different parts of
the State" Its looks are in its favor a deem
red and size large.
Here Is another kind, continues Miss
Taylor. which think good deal of. This
IS the Flanders, firm, full variety. Another
Is Zackey's pippin. Both of these are but
little raised in the State"
The next exhibit is a good collection of
apples by K. II. Gardiner of Gardiner, ex-
president Of the Maine Pathological Society.
Mr.. GARDENERS list comprises thirty-four va
rietles of apples and five of pears
Following next in order is F.A. Lapham's,
PIttston, exhibit of % varieties of apples, in
GLIDING rich samples of Baldwins, Northern
spy and Belltowers. "Here's the kind of
winthrop greetings | got this year" says
Mr.. Lapham as ne pinned liable on a speci-
min of this variety. large and luscious in
green and red Il had no idea of coming to
the fair till last Sunday remarked Mr.. James
X. Peacock Of Gardiner. But finally conclu-
ded I'd come, 50 | hustled up these Is varie-
ties of apples You see hear " Last year beat
the crowd on plums," says Mr.. p got Is
oushel and they grew so thick that my neigh
Dor Gardiner said the limbs would have to be
spllced to hold any more "
Nv. X. Wharf, Gardiner completes Ken
ntbec's grand show of fruit. There are 30
varieties IN this collection including extra
fine Roxbury Russets. Greetings and Spies
BurIeiEh a. BodweIis Last Importation.
The imported cattle brought 10 Quebec
last summer by Mr. Hall c. Burleigh were
released from quarantine on Wednesday of
this week, and will be at once brought to
1alowell and Vassalboro The following
notice of the shipment, from the Agricultural
Gazette, London. Eng, of August 4. gives
Information that shows the choice English
herds from which the animals were selected {:
Mr. Fl. G.. Burleigh Of Vassalboro, Maine,
L >. A, has made another visit to England.
and purchased nearly 40 head of the best
llerefords he could obtain, which brings the
number he has bought on all his visits, to
about 800 The collection included the
whole of the herd of Major Carlyon of
Cornwall, % cattle with two calves, sired
by the celebrated bull Assurance, half
brothersto Anxiety, by the late Mr.. w. Tay-
lor's Longhorns 4.7ll, dam Florence, by De-
Cote, thus embracing the Showle and Winter
de Cote blood; five from the richly produc-
tive herd of Mr.. B Rogers, The Grove,
who, from his wonderful success in breeding
notable sres. is regarded as invincible in that
particular; eight with two calves, brought
from p. w. Turner The Lynch, Pembridge !;
five cattle and two calves from Mr.. A. ROdg-
ers and Mr.. c.. Team; eleven with five calves
from Mr.. II Medlicott, Bohemian; six with
two calves from Mr.. William Price, The
Vern; eight from Mr.. John Hamar, Hopton
Heath; eleven with one calf from Mr.. Thorn
as Rogers The Field; three with one calf
from Mr.. G. p Rogers, The Field; five
from Mr.. w w. Woolcott of Cornwall !;
three from Mr. Tucker Bodmin; and two
with one calf from Mr.. w Hicks, st Austell.
Along with this valuable lot of tIeretoris, Mr.
Burlegh mad II Rcd Polled cattle with one
calf, which he uAd purchased from T. and A
Stanford, Pnrtrlrg' Green, Sussex
Mr.. Burlcigh Intynd,j t. sail with his pur-
chases in the steamship Texas, bound from
Liverpool to Quebec, but for a telegram con-
tanning the sad intelligence of fatal accident
to his talented and only son, Mr.. VIII Hall
Burleigh, C. f His friend. Mr.. Thomas
Rogers, received the telegram and broke the
news Mr. Bureigh accordingly left Eng
land for home by the first steamer, which
happened to be the Alaska, and Mr. Thos
Rogers undertook to superiDtend the ship
ment of the cattle. Mr. John Holmes also
shipped by the rexas 10 peligree Heretords,
including 20 for the foundation of a new herd
for Mr.. Horne in Illinois. This collection
was obtained from the herds of Messrs. j. w.
smith, Thiughill: Dent, Leighton; Felix
Ford and VIM Hill, ErgletOn "