Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-13
The san Diego County Fair.

The great annual fair of the San Diego
County Agricultural Society, held last week,
seems to have been the most pronounced
success of any fair held in that county. The
people of that region are taking hold in
earnest to develop the richness of their op-
ulent valleys, that have waited for thous-
ands OF years for the farmer and orchard
ist.
OF the extent and richness of the exhibit
tion the San Diegan has the following excel
lent notice:
Armory Hall was crowded las. night with
hundreds OF delighted sightseers, charmed
with the multiplied attractions that invited
The product OF the orange groves appealed
in their golden beauty to the unpreJudiced
Judgment of friend and strange to the won
derful capabilities OF our soil and innate
grapes in endless profusion, to the number
Of our vineyards and the adaptability OF our
soil to their growth. The magnif-
cent apples from the mountain dis
zone, testified to the wide range OF our
climate. embracing within few miles the
essential characteristics OF two widely
separated latitudes.. Side by side in the
Seen Zee the product Of the North, and the pc.
culiar growth of the sunny South. The
olive fg and pomegranate mingled their
tropical beauty with the blushing peach
aud rosy apple OF the temperate cline.
there be found such Protean forms Of ag-
ricultural and horticultural possibilities?
Neither under Italian skies, in sunny
France, or on the historic plains where the
human race was cradled when the world
was fresh from the hands Of Omnipotence,
can a spot be found more richly lowered
with the gifts of nature, than this belt OF
Southern California. washed by the waves
world TO match our soil and climate, as
demonstrated by practical illustration in
Armory Hall last night. Not only could
be seen the delicate fruit. that oy common
consent are always associa'ea Win tne s1it
old fashioned Puritanic. patriotic pumpkin,
SQUASH, beet and cabbage, corn and grain,
that thrive In native excellence,
where the mGSstan 9Se oneeF sIse7e ana s'iSs Shs
returning fet seasons bind with icy fetters the
prolific earth and running stream; Two
climates have married and settled III san
Diego, and in Armory Hall was seen
grand reunion OF family stock. The aristo-
cratic orange may turn up her nose at the
plebean cabbage, but the world is SO consti-
tuted that many times sauerkralt take the
blue ribbon over orange marmalode. Ihe
fig and the olive may think Oh Sodomons S
apostrophe to his country sweetheart ana
try TO put on airs over the low-born sweet
potato and onion, but there are Places
where baked 'rossum and sweet potatoes
would command unchallen red homage and
the picked olive go a-begging. Let the
monster beet and the delicate fig forget
their rivalry, for their presence. at Amory
Hall, side by side as representatives OF our
county, tells n tale OF truth to the stranger
within our gates that neither paper. nor
pamphlet could do as well. The fair Is
nearly over, and 1t has proved success II
| fruit and vegetables are just criterion OF
| success. May next year, and the next, wit
ness larger aims and better results: The
| Horticultural Society should be literally
sustained, It's power enlarged, its means
augmented and made an incorporates
the Increased demands of our rapidly mul
| tiplying necessities.