Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-27
STRAWBERRIES AND ROSES.
Salem Will try to Hold an Ex.
hibitiOn,
IN HONOR OF TIE CROWNED QUEENS
Of the Horticultural and Floral
WOrld-DetaiIs of
the Fair.
The date is set.

as those days fall in the midst Of thq
strawberry season. This was
left to the principal berry growers,
The place will be announced
in the Salem papers and on the
premium lists which will be issued
soon. The committees have com
pleted their work. A special com.
mittee, composed of 7. McF. Pat.
ton and Mrs. w. w. Martin arrang.
ed the rose premiums Monday.
The Fruit Growers Association
set aside $40 for rose premiums and
they are to be awarded as follows:
l. For the largest and finest dis.
play of roses, named varieties, S..
2. For best and finest display of
roses, ten named varieties, So.
8. For best display any one vari.
ETY., 81.
ROSE RULES.
The rose committee adopted the
following rules for exhibits:
Each variety must be labelled true
to name.
Com petitors will be assigned a
number. Name of exhibitor must
not be attached to roses.
There will be great enthusiasm
over roses and the display will be a
large one, and well worthy of the
Bouquet City.
THE STRAWBERRY PREMIUMS.
Owing to prospective shortness of
crop of some varieties of Strawberries
the strawberry premiums have been
rearranged as follows:
1st. Best display standard va
rieties, 1st So; End So.
2nd. Best display new varieties,
1st SO; End 81.
3rd. Biggest display all varieties,
1st So; 2nd 81.
4th. Best sample canning berries
not less than a peck Especial prize
offered by Salem Canning company
SIS.
In addition to the prize offered by
Canning company for best canning
berry Seth Hammer, Esq, will give
for same $3.50.
9Th. For best plate of any new
variety Special prize offered by
Seth Hammer, Esq.,) ST..
9th. Sweepstakes premium best
plate any variety Especial prize Of
fered by : McF. Patton,) Wixon's
work on Pacific Coast Horticulture,
575 pages elegantly bound and richly
illustrated in colors-a very valuable
work, valued at So.
9TH. Jumbo prize by r. ]. Hen
bricks and others, for plate of biggest
Strawberries, $40.
The rules governing thestrawberry
exhibit will be printed on the pre-
mium list. Indications point to an
immense display of strawberries.
Growers ought not need prize to
induce them to exhibit their fruit.
They have a greater interest at
stake than any one else, and every
grower should make personal effort
10 make this fair a great success.
There il much to learn by all. This
most lucrative branch of fruit grow
ing is in its infancy. Let all take
hold with vim.
THE QUEEN OF THE ROSES.
Which shall be voted the Queen
of the Roses at the coming rose show?
That is going to be an exciting con-
test and Salem rose growers have
their favorites. At the Cottle house
on Commercial street stands an early
bloomer that time may bar out OF
the contest. 1t is large tea rose
witha creamy heart, that is not fully
unfolded until late, and wealth or
involute petals turning pink and
streaked with the blush of sunset
lust before the blossom falls to pieces.
The heart unfolds spirally like the
screw-w heel of an ocean steamship
and all the phenomena of its BIOS
somlng are marked. 1t is claimed
this rose was brought from Japan by
Mr.. Patton, but this is denied by
others. The rose is a wonderful
beauty and has attracted many
persons to see it. There is rose
almost its familiar at Mrs. w. w.
Martins.
A JOURNAL reporter made the
rounds of several rose gardens today
and discovered remarkable displays,
In climbing roses Mrs. l. N. Gilbert
has "a magnificent display, and in all
a most wonderful variety. AT Mr.
e. NJ. Waite's the reporter found a
ravishing bush Of Mareschal Mel
and Refine Marie Henrietta
heavy red climber, that would today
probably walk off with the prize
among its species.
The city has hundred enthusias-
tic rose growers who have mostly
the finer and rarer varieties ana II
thew could he brought together at
the show would be worth travelling
a thousand miles to see. The La
France is a gorgeous pale red beauty
with endless admirers who are VIII
ing TO lay down their lives metaphor
ically that she is the sweetest rose rose
that grows. The JOURNAL edl'ol
swears by the General Jacquemlno'
1900, ,,ia daana of DurDliSn