St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-06
THE GERMAN COUNTY, FAIR.
The Exhibition in Market Hall Com
pact, Complete and Pic
turesque.
Beautiful and Unique, Practical and Useful
Creditable to Ramsey
County.

What with the big show at Minneapolis, the
fair at Rochester and complete plethora Of fairs
throughout the state and country at the present
time, the st. Paul people seemed to have closed
their eyes to the fact that they have running
now, right here in their very midst, one Of the
completest, most compact, coy, picture-like lit
tie exhibition that ever tempted the lover of the
beautiful and seeker after the marvellous. The
bUoa exhibition of the German Horticultural and
Agricultural society, of Ramsey county, now
open at Market hall, deserves vastly better pat
ronage than it has yet obtained, and it will be q
disgrace to our city if it does not meet
with its deserved attention to-day. The first day
it was opened the weather was against it, and the
last two there was such strong attractions else
where that there may be some little excuse for
the light attendance. But there should be q
crowd there to-day and this evening for these
reasons: First, it is home effort; second,
it is more than worth the money to what our
country can produce in fruits and vegetables and
flowers. and in taste and artistic skill, too, in
arranging and displaying; third it is new in
stitution and of the right kind, and should be
supported. But as to the latter it will thrive
who ever knew of the German element of our
citizens taking up project that they did not
make to succeed?
tons of the garden and the field. but it is not
wholly confined to these for there is needlework
and fine arts and manufactures, but still the
great bulk of the exhibits are of fruits and
flowers and vegetables and grain-Pomona and
Flora and Ceres are really the presiding god
desses. 1t would take whole page Of this
paper just to mention all the attractions, and
consequently it must suffice just to mention q
few. Among the most conspcous is the ''May-
Flower full rugged ship some five feet keel
and SIX feet over all with well proportion beam
whose deck is asplendid mass of geraneum phlox
drumundi, white pinks, tube roses, sweet pea
with bell like fuschies trailing over the buwarlls
from the taffrail down to the displacement
line. The rigging is skilfully trailed
with delicate smilax and the whole
sits in a sea Of purple and green with white
crested wavelets all formed of sweet scented pc
tunias. This exquisite exhibit with several bou-
quets and unique floral designs is from Venzke' s
nursury. Messrs. Lemke also have some very
elegant and elaborate designs, among them is an
exquisite music stand of white pinks
and tube roses, gladioia, fuchias, smilax; Tyre,
morse shoe and other designs are on this central
stand the east end of which contains model
lawn and flower beds tastefully laid out. Among
the most attractive flowers here some splen-
did asters, coXcombs pansIes, some exquisite
dahlias, verbenlas as large phlox and richer in
hue and the superb lilium cencifolium rosa-its
roseate spangled petals and graceful lance
shaped leaves being an attraction only second to
its exquisite fragrance which surpasses that of
the tube rose.
Another great abstraction is sample of table
floral decoration. The table is set with a pretty
tea set in Dresden or Scvres or some other less
common kind of porcelain, but the center Of the
table is occupied by a superb and chaste floral
design unique and elegant and formed one of the
choicest exotics.
Yet another attraction is a splendid bed OF
foliage plants, principally colius, arranged with
an eye cultured in color blending. A more
grateful sight and exquisite relief to the eye
cannot be found in any well laid out parterre.
And still another beautiful picture is
grand collection of hot house plants:
and another an immense display of cactus
and then there are masses of trailing and creep
ing plants, and, although late in the season, some
magnificent roses. But space will not admit of
even bare mention Of half the beautiful things,
and therefore on to the useful. There is wheat
and oats and barley and rye aud miet and corn
and clover and grasses equal to anything pro-
duced anywhere. The corn is just immense.
There are potatoes and squash and ruta bagas and
kohrabi and cauifower and cabbage and
every variety of vegetable the ever
shone upon-and old Sol never created such
! mammoth growth az when he produced these
enormties. One man, j. Kranz, shows forty va
rieties. And then the fruits, who will say that
Ramsey county cannot produce apples, after
seeing the varieties shown at Market hall, and
such apples, who ever saw better or larger or
more symmetrical than the plate of duchess
awarded the blue ribbon? Fifty-fve varieties of
apples from the state experimental
farm, twenty-seven kinds of grapes
! from Mr.. Knapleides winery, plums
| in abundance But the exhibition stock has other
attractioss There is needlework, architectural
drawings, some fine crayons from photos by c..
b. Mantz-spiendid work. A beautiful bunch of
! babes-splendidlY toned and finished, and
mounted from the Seven corners gallery, and
another cluster OF grown babies from the same
gallery; sewing machines (the Home princi-
pally), musical instruments by Dyer & Howard
saddlery and harness by Berkholz; picture
| frames and bronze work by Blakemore 81 Co.
pressed flowers and embroidery by Miss Simmon
natural flowers, naturally preserved, by Mrs.
Montman; some excellent china and glass, shown
| by Pollock, Donaldson 81 Ogden; splendid cur
tains and carpets, shown by Auerbach Finch g.
| Van Slyke; furs and robes by Albrecht g. Co. +;
stoves-'real radiant home daises." These are
| just few of the attractions outside the show
| proper. Yesterday one of the attractions was
the music, supplied by the two blind musicians,
| Chas. Miller and w. Furness, and still another
was the Sitting Bull starring company. To-day
the last, will be the biggest day of all, The
! First regiment band will be in attendance, and
| Sitting Bali and his retiuue will be exhibited on
the stage in the evening.
'only an ArmOr Bearer will be sung at Fran