The record-union., 1895-01-16
FRUITS AND FLOWERS IN WINTER.
Sights for Eastern Visitors to Feast
Their Eyes Upon.
The Hall Where the American Pomo.
logical Society VIII Hold Its
Sessions This Week.

At 10 o'clock this morning the Conven-
ton of the American Pathological So
ciety will meet in this city.
The interior of the Pavilion at Sixth
and M streets has been converted into a
bower of beauty by the skillful fingers of
the mem bers of the Decorative Commit
tee and their willing assistants in honor
of the visitors from the far East. Long
festoons of red, white and blue bunting,
artistically draped, depend from the cell
ing, interspersed with smilax and ever
green's, while on all sides of the building
are rows of the various varieties of palm
trees in decorated boxes.
The entrance to the hall is through a
bower of orange branches, literally cov-
cred with hanging clusters of the golden
fruit, which will be plucked and distrib
uted to the Eastern visitors before the
end of the session.
The platform, with it's background of
palms and ferns, has, peeping through
the deep green foliage, cluster OF flags
surrounding a shield, while on either
side the futed pillars are entwined with
festoons of smilaX.
In front of the palms is vase Of bril-
liant red roses, tianked with glass dishes
containing camellias, the snowwhite
blossoms resting in a bed of smllax and
maiden-hair fern, while on either side
are vases OF vari-colored chrysanthe-
NUNS.
The platform proper is a literal mass of
potted plants and palms, while vases
containing roses of La France, carna-
tlon, tea, rainbow and numerous other
varieties are intermingled in charming
confusion until one may imagine 1t a
veritable flower garden.
The SD6ak6r'B table lS hidden
fusion of cypress and smilax, and is
decorated with bouquets of pinks, roses.
geraniums, Gala lilies and violets, with
trimmings of five-fnger ferns.
THE FRUIT EXHIBITS,
Which occupy the southern portion of
the hall, have, as a foreground, a series of
arches covered with bunting and ever
green, interspersed with olive and orange
branches covered with fruit, while the
base OF the exhibit is hidden with an
artistiCally arranged mass of palm leaves
of the fan variety. Inside the arches, on
q blue background, is the word "Wel-
come" worked in oranges.
At the LETT OF the platform is the exhibit
from SonOma County. 1t contains over
forty varieties OF apples, English and
japanese walnuts, citrus and dried fruits
OF ali KINDS, pears, perslmmonS, olives,
nuts and Japanese palm fruit. There is
also a section of redwood bark, eighteen
inches thick, mammoth squash weigh
ing 2U1 pounds, a sugar-beet that weighs
forty pounds, and display of one-year-
old fruit trees that are twelve feet in
hight, heavily brauched, and which were
grown in sandy soil without irrigation.
The display is decorated with vases of
chrysanthemums, dattodlls, begonias,
cactus blossoms, veronicas, roses, ferns
and ornamental grasses.
The Cooperative Fruit Company of
Placer County has fine exhibit OF citrus
and dried fruits, comprising apples, nuts,
preserved fruits in jars and olives. En-
Draced in this exhibit are a quantity of
olive branches laden with ripe truit,
taken from the orchard of 2. w. Butler
Of Penryn, in that county.
the State Board of Horticulture has
hne display OF preserved olives OF the
Mission variety, in jars; olive oil in bot
tied form, various nuts and large Sec
LOn OF olive tree wood from Santa Clara
County.
The Sunset Seed and Plant Company of
San Francisco has an exhibit OF garden
and Hover seeds, among the latter being
collection OF torty-nve varieties OF
sweet peas. The decorations consist of
artIstcally arranged bouquets of carna-
tions, vlolets and maiden-hair ferns.
Amador County has forwarded a collec-
ton of dried fruits.
Tulare County has a fine collection of
citrus fruits.
The Palermo Colony of Butte County
has five Vatieties of oranges as its ex-
hibit.
Sacramento County has beautiful dis
play OF various fruits In glass, many of
which were exhibited at the Midwinter
Fair (which demonstrates their keeping
qualltles), nuts, dried fruits, French
prunes, oranges, lemons, olives, jellIes
and asparagus (bo tn fresh and in glass.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
Professor c. II. Allen of San Jose, II.
7. Stabbler of Huba City and Howard
Overacker of Niles have been appointed
committee of three to oversee the cook
ing and preparation OF California dried
fruits, with a view of demonstrating their
nutritive value and qualities. They have
kitchen and line OF tables at their COM
mand where all can mple the sun-dried
products OF the orchards and vineyards
OF the Pacific Slope.
A HANDSOME EXHIBIT.
Like everything Californians under
take the exhibit will be a decided sue
cess, and Sacramento will have no cause
TO blush for lack OF energy on the part Of
her citizens in contributing to make the
visit OF our Eastern brethren pleasant
and profitable one. 1t will no doubt
seem to many of the visitors, who have
LETT their suow-covered farms and
orchards in old New England and other
Eastern States, simple impossibiiity
that such profusIon OF plants ana flow
ers can flourish in the open air at this
season of the year. Yet it is an absolute
fact that the entire decorative display is a
voluntary contribution culled from the
open-aIr gardens OF Sacramento County.
DELEGATES ARRIVING.
The Boston contingent arrived at 6:IO
o'clock A. NJ. yesterday. They remained
In their special car until 7:30 when they
were waited on by detail from the local
reception committee, who escorted them
10 the parlors OF the Golden Eagle Hotel
and subsequently assigned them suitable
apartments IN adjacent residences.
Members Of the party state that they
had very enjoyable trip across the con-
tinent. They stopped on the way at Salt
Lake City, where they attended the serv-
ices held in the Tabernacle and visited
various points of interest in the city
They are all highly delighted with what
they have seen of California, and ex-
pressed themselves very enthusiastically
when mentioning the reception they re-
celved by the local committee
During the forenoon they visited the
Capitol. strolled through the grounds and
assembled to the dome 10 enjoy the ex-
tended view of Sacramento'S beautiful
valley. The afternoon was devoted to
visiting the Art Gallery.
The party is in charge of &. d. Sage and
wife of North Bloomfield, Mass, and is
composed of the following persons; Ben
iamin q. Smith, Treasurer of the Pomo-
logical Society of Cambridge, Mass; Call
vim Green and wife, SattIllo, Pa; VIM
Parry and wife, Parry, n. y; X. a.
Wichersham, Winchester, Va; j. l..
Packer, Corning, n. y; John w.
Rockwell, and wife and Miss May
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