Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-10-14
The Idaho Fruit Exhibit.

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Special Correspondence to BLACkFooT NEWS.
Idaho State Building, jackson
Park, Chicago, Ill, Oct Z, l893-Ida-
no has the largest apple at the Worlds
Fair. 1t was little late in coming,
and several other states proudly hung
out card with the weight of "the
largest apple at the Worlds Fair. "
Now on a pyramid of apples, and sur
rounded By hundred other large APP
Piles in the Idaho pavilion, is the
queen of the Fair; and above it reads
"Gloria Mundi-27& ounces-the
largest apple at the Worlds Fair. We
beat Arkansas two ounces, and British
Columbia one and a quarter"
Indeed, if the impartial criticism of
visitors is a safe criterion, Idaho has
now the best exhibit of fresh fruit at
jackson Park. The EXPLANATIONS of
surprise as the people pass through
the hall are most extravagant This
Is Idaho. didn't know they raised
fruit out there. Why, this is the best
we have seem is a very common re
mark.
Not only in apples, but in pears,
prunes and plums is the idaho exhibit
complete. There are now about four
hundred plates in her exhibit, and
from four to dozen samples on a
plate. They are arranged in eight
rows, and the shelves rise one above
another on the table like a pyramid,
and the different colors and sizes are
so placed as to make an artistic effect
Among other surprises Idaho has
the honor of producing a new plum
1t is from the orchard of T. p Ca
rothers, of Boise 1t is of a trans
parent, golden color and its quality
is unsurpassed anywhere. At the sug
gestion of Commissioner Wells th,
authorities here have named it the
.'Ada" in honor of the county where
it was produced A number of per
sons have already expressed desire
to secure trees of this new plum.
Among the apples most conspicuou
are the Blue Pearmaln and Craven
stein. Idaho was the last state at tn
Fair to have 1892 apples on exhibi
tion, thus showing their superior keep
ing qualities. Hardly had the Blu
Pearmain, somewhat shrunken an,
dry but sound, been taken off til
plates till the new crop filed thei
place.
The other varieties Of apples are
Duchess, Alexander, Wine, Earl
Summer. Swltzenberger, Twent
Ounce Pippin, Grimes Golden, Rhod
Island Greeniug, Northern Spy, Bale
Sweet, Gloria Mundi, White White
Pearmain, Rambo, Wealthy, Whit
Pippin. Lady, Pennock, Yellow PHI
pin, King, Porter, Johnlthan and SCI
eral other varieties of crab apples.
Among those who have contribute
to the success of Idaho's fruit exhib
the present season are l.. A. Porte
S. w. Wheatley and NJ. j. Vessel
of Lewiston; John Buckley, G. j
Rust, A. Mcpherson, I. z. Carother
Robert Wilson, J. Il. Timer and NJ
Miller, of Boise; and n. A. jacobson
Of Payette.
At last the value of all this work
now made apparent, and the comm
generations OF the state will read I'll
history Idaho has made at the Fla
with great deal Of pride. Idaho
the only state or country that will r
ceiye three medals and diplomas o
the Horticultural department, one f
her dried fruits, one for her fruits
solution and one for her green fruit
Tbs first two have already been awar
ed, and the entries ia the green fru
close October 18th. Washingto
Oregon and California, all three, g
left on their dried frui., and did n'