The herald., 1895-03-01


The exhibitor in the thirty" classes does
not even know his own fruit when dis
played. This and other precautions have
been taken in order to insure the object
aimed at, viz, that the awards may be
made only upon the commercial merit OF
the fruit displayed, The exhibit of "thir-
/ ties" is made upon a table ITO feet long by
feet wide, and embraces something like
700 entries.
Los Angeles County
Returning to the entrance into the
pavilion and again facing the stage, the
display Immediately upon the right hand
of the central aisle is the modest one OF
Los Angeles county, represented by the
Duarte- Monrovia Citrus Association and
the Duarte Fruit Exchange, the whole be-
! ing in charge of William Chippendale.
This exhibit occupies one stand but
forms valuable and interesting EXPOSE
| ton of Los Angeles county citrus fruit
growths. Again, it may be said that the
exhibit embraces almost everything capa-
bic of growing upon an orange stock. An
elongated and raised fancy design has
been carefully wrought out forming most
interesting novelty. Midway of It's length
and in a circle are the names "Duarte-
Monrovia, p" and within this is seen 'Cal.
raised piece and in large letters are the
initials "D.-M. C. A" The whole is
worked out in citrus fruits, and is one OF
the great attractions of the fair. The
principal exhibitors are J. A. Maddocre,
K. Carter, H. A. Buttolph, William Chip
pendale, F. NJ. Douglas, W. w. Bacon, W.
H. Young As Steadman, b. d. G. Nor
gan, Bailey & johnson, Bliss Bros, and
Mrs. u. A --Crane. In addition to the
beautiful, display of bright fruit, jarde-
nieres of cut flowers lend many colors to
the scene.
San Diego County
Starting down the central aisle from
the entrance, the visitor comes across the
exhibits from San Diego county. These
are in charge of ]. G. Frisbee of San
Diego city. No attempt has been made
at an elaborate or intricate display of the
fruits and other semi-tropic products of
this county, but the various exhibits are
we'll placed and show to good advantage.
The two large stands devoted to the dis.
| play from San Diego county are laden
with oranges, lemons, grape fruit, citron,
olive oil, picked olives, preserved citron
peel, crystallized fruits, marmalades and
jellies. Frank Kimball has on exhibition
some excellent olive oil and pickles. Mrs
McLaren exhibits marmalade, jellies, pre-
served citron and crystallized fruits. H.
M. Higgins and R, @. Allen are exhibit
ors of lemons, among which are the hand
propagated by the first mentioned gentle
man. The display of oranges is contrib
uted to by R. G. Allen, H. NJ. Higgins, j.
c. Frisbee, Ralph Granger, G. A. Whit
more, W. G. Klmball and H. L. Story. G.
A. Whitmore shows some fine grape fruit
as do also Uhlrich Bros. A handsome ex-
hibit of raisins is made by Souther &
C,roe1axy Of tho Rncto, ha
table has in its center a magnificent bas-
ket of navel oranges of uniform size and
general excellence The whole presents a
valuable display and one that reflects
credit upon the Southern county.
San Bernardino County
| W. F. Grow, San Bernardino grower
of citrus fruits, has charge of the Sar
Bernardino exhibit which is found upor
the large stand next met with in passing
up towards the stage. This exhibit consists
of oranges, embracing the navel, Mediter
rean sweet, st. Michael, Malta blood
ruby blood, tangerine and king varieties
lemons, shaddocks, pomolos, grape fruit
citron and their manufactured products
The principal exhibitors from San Der
nardino are G, l.. Frazer, W. E. Nye, W
F.sGrow, L. G. Waite and the Highland
Fruit Growing Association. The exhibi
! is most handsomely displayed the cente
| being fashioned much after the style of
| garden rockeIy. This feature consists O
| three circular tiers each of lesser diam
eter than the one Immediately beneath il
| the top one being surmounted by a choice
collection of large specimens of the grap'
fruit family in the center of which is {
! single red electric light.
| The whole of this handsome design il
! fruit, the colors from lemon to ruby blooC
J happily blended, is graced with sprays o
| ivy and is made scintillating by larg,
number of electric incandescent lights.
is simple, quiet yet handsome effort ant
is proving a cause for many delighted
| calculations and comments.
| Ontario
| The next stand one comes to is tn
counterpart of the one upon which River
| side has its exhibit, and is next to tn
stage on the right-hand side of the mali
or central aisle as one faces it. This stant
| is devoted to the exhibits from Ontario
and in the size of the display, in the va
riety of the citrus fruits composing it ant
in the artistic arrangement it will shar
| the honors with it's neighbor, Riverside
| j. G. Wood has charge of this excellen
exhibit, and it is with very pardonabl
| pride that he bears the responsibility.
The theme in the mind of the designe
of the Ontario exhibit must be the on,
the mind of the gardener artist in plan
ming his beds of flowers. There are Dor
ders, crescents circles, pyramids. basins
and terraces. The whole is artistic with
out stiffness and pleasing without repeti
ton 1t is a magnificent exhibit and on,
| hardly susceptible to improvement.
Among the exhibitors in the Ontario
! display are Colonel 0. S. Pitcher, A. P
| HARDWOOD, Charles Harwood, Ensley &
| Griswold, John Hoffman, William M
| Stroud, W. j. Robb, J. W. Freeman anc
the Ontario Fruit Growers Association.
| Riverside County
G. ". Mcleod is in charge of the mair
portion of Riverside county's exhibit. L
occupies an irregularly shaped stand stu
ated between that of San Bernardinc
county and the stage. AS Riverside county
would be looked upon as the center of tn,
citrus industry so it has made one of tn,
| largest exhibits to be found within tn,
| pavilion walls. The main display take
the form of an orange ground with ser
| pentine tracings of lemon and grape fruit
In the center is an illustration il
shape of a Moorish mausoleum, it
sides describing the Moorish curve o
| arch so much thought of by architects
| The sides and ends of this decoration O
J structure-one scarcely knows by which
term to describe it's done in oranges