Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-04-20

me Projected Fruit and Flower Fair
It will be remembered that at the
Hast meeting Of the Board OF Trade, q
letter from Mr.. Brown Of Kent
County, this State, addressed to Enoch
Moore, was read, asking that some
action be taken towards holding fruit
and flower fair next fall, or rather
indeed in the early winter, say Decem
Der. The Board of Trade very properly
appointed committee, with Mr.. Moore
M chairman, to take the matter In
hand, without bringing the Board into
any financial responsibility, ~ fruit
and flower fairs were entirely foreign
% the legitimate business OF the Board.
From what we can leAyn from MI.
Moore one Of the princiIai objects Of
che fair is to show the many improved
methods Of preserving fyuit, the latest
method being that byswhich apples,
pears and peaches, and indeed all kinds
Of fruit are preserved in thar natural
fresh state far beyond their season
sinply by keeping them in boxes OIL
baskets In . room with . certain even
eemperature. The larger fruit, such 81
apples and pears, have been kept In q
perfectly natural state all winter, By
letting them sit In the baskets In which
they were picked. Everything, We arr
Informed, depended entirely upon the
temperature. We had the opportunity
o month ago Of seeing some pear
which William r. Peters had preserved
through the winter by this process, and
the pears were 90 green, fresh ant
Juicy as the day they were picked from
the tree. But while this Ia one Of tn
main plans to be exhibited Of preserv
ing fruit It Is not the only one. Their
In TO be q general exhibition Of nj
kinds Of conserved and preserved fruit
and We may we'll imagine that no Stat
I'm the Union can equal nttle DelawAr
I'm the variety Of her fruit and the Va
xious improved methods OF preserving
ik. In the fruit line then We may OK
poet the fair to be grand suoces
whenever held. Delaware cannot
taken wrong In that respect.
But how about the floral department
There win be n general opinion tina
the time will be too late for genera
Aower fair to all gosrs and corners VIII
raise flowers that make . grand sho'
I'm September and October, but In d.
oember they would have none, If th
frost gets about its work early in th
season, as 1t has not failed to do 70
several seasons past The floral d.
partment will DO thrown entirely int
the hands Of the greenhouse gardeners
OF course there will be no lack q
pretty and odd flowers 10 show, for on
florists always have them on hand, bu
the outdoor growers will be cut out
They cannot In December even exhibi
the grand, far-spreading chrysAnthe
mum, upon which they may have d.
voted hours Of particular care an
attention. A flower fair would III
doubtedly be greater success II bel
in the latter part OF September rath'
than In December, but that early fa
month 10 too early for the fruit exh
hilton, as the larger fruit would not
gathered from the trees ct that time.
Mr.. Moore assures Us upon the .
thority Of gentlemen In Kent Coun
interested in fruit preserving and ladi
interested in flower raising, that ev'
ct that late season Of the year the
will be no clashing Of interests, but th
all will work harmoniously and t
fair will be grand success. II 90, tn
Il will be the greater novelty to have
late. To have q green fruit and how
fair In December looks like bidding 4
AAnce to winter, the very novelty
which will make 1t = success. Q
suggestion some time ago that one
our skating Kinks would be the VI
place in which to hold such projec
fair has been well received, and
prospect now Is that we will hAv
grand fruit and flower fair in wini
and that In one Of eur Kinks. Decem
will become rs pleasant a. May so
rs fruit and flowers canmBke 1t 30.