Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-07
FRUITS And FLOWERS GALORE
First Annual Fair OF New Mexico HOr-
ticulturaI Society Now i'll Pro-
gress at Santa Fe.
A DISPLAY THAT EXClTES WONDER
Hastily Prepared Notes Regarding the
Fine Exhibits from Pecos, Mesilla
and Espanola Valleys-Maior
Twitchell's Address Com
plete

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The frat annual fair of the New Mex
loo Horticultural association was opened
to the public in the city of Santa Fe at
10 O'Clock this morning. The building
selected for the purpose is the large red
structure on the Fort Marcy reservation
formerly used "a a government warehouse
for the storage of military supplies. 1t
is both commodious and convenient, The
public entrance is about opposite the
Palace hotel.
A New MEXICAN representative visit
ed the exposition hall q few moments
ago. The place is bower of beauty,
filled with the fragrance of fruits and
flowers, and rendered particularly at
tractive by the profusion of red, white
and blne bunting, floral designs, and
evergreens that have been artistioally
placed in exactly the right places by the
fair and deft hands of the members o
the Santa Fe Woman's board of trade
Santa Fe is justly proud of the splendid
achievements of these enterprising ano
capable ladies.
But fragrant and beautiful decorations
count little unless they nre suitably su5
tanned. Fortunately the first annual fall
Al - nj DoID
ton now Just blossoming into full glory
more than iustifies the most sanguine ex
pectetions of its promoters. 1t is al
ready admitted to be real success ant
yet some of the finest exhibits remain t.
be unpacked and displayed. Those VIII
witnesse d the budding of the rose toda.
are invited 10 study the colors OF tn
flower in full blossom tomorrow.
Among the conspicuous outside exhib
its is that from Eddy and Roswell in thu
lower Pecos valley. This exhibit con
sists of carload of the fruits, vegetables
and cereals produced in the fertile soil o
the sunny region indicated. Among tn,
principal features thereof is the wonder
ful display of sugar beets from the seet
to the fully metured and marketable prod
uct therefrom, which is refined and granu
lated sugar of the very best quality. The
beets exhibited are not SO dreadful large
but they are sweet, very sweet The
sugar beet, next to the gold bearing quartz
ledge, may safely be classsd as the most
important factor in the future prosperity
of New Mexico.
But the Pecos valley display ia by no
means confined to sugar beets. The val
ley comes to the front with celery that
easily beats Kalamazoo for brlttleness,
size and flavor; broom corn that is Ger
tain to fill the valley with blind broom
makers; cotton of the very best quality
that has this year yielded one bale to the
acre;a glass case containing 100 pounds
of honey, so pure, transparent and sweet
that even rosy checked and charrNlinpef
maldens envy the sweetness thereof;
peaches, apples resio, piums, grapes, crab
apples, c9monds, and Walnuts in glass
jays, which are as near perfect in size and
quality as can helmagined; tomatoes, sweet
potatoes and the common poor mau +
Irish potatoes in absolute perfection f.;
cornstalks IA feet high go heavily laden
with fully matured ears of grain rs ever
were grown in old Missouri; caulihower,
onions, turnips, and cabbage in glass
jars that cannot be beaten on earth, and
watermelons and muskmelona that caused
the mouths of both small boys and grey
headed men to water and wish.
Among the other outside exhibits are
those of Thomas McQuston of Rinconnda
whose display of apples, pears, peaches,
nectarines, German prunes and plums is
the admiration Of all beholders the Agri-
cultural college of Las Cruces, with a
magnificent showing of grapes, apples
pears, peaches, guinness aud prunes; Luis
M. Ortiz, with fiLe exhibit of apples,
pears, peaches and plums from the Es
pamela valley in Rio Arriba county; Mrs.
Casad, with peerless collection of APP
pies from Las Cruces; Jim Curry, the
railroad conductor orchardist, with col
lection of peaches, nectarines, plums and
pears from his Espanola orchard that en-
titles him to the honor of delivering the
next annual address before the sssooia-
ton, and Oscar Mallinckrodt of Espanola,
with display of penches, pears, primes
and apples that will certainly attract
much attention.
Major Twitchell's exhibit, from his Es-
pamela orchard, would have been placed
on file today except for the fact that he
mislaid his Latin dictionary and could not
properly label the different varieties.
Governor Prince will also come to the
front with fine display of fruit from his
Espanola ranch in the morning.
Arthur Boyle, Grant Rivenburg Robert
Helwig, Jose ID. Sena, Captain s. II. Day,
Geo. FL. Cross, Mrs. W. II. Man 1erield, FL
s. Kaune and numerous others are among
the home exhibitors. Full particulars as
to these exhibits will appear in these
columns tomorrow. In this connection
the New MEXICAN desires to add that too
much praise can hardly be bestowed upon
the people of Santa Fe for the noble way
in which they have come to the front in
support of this notable and creditable
exposition.
The feature of the fair this afternoon
was the annual address of Major r. L
Twitchell of Las Vegas, Santa Fe and
Espanola, which is produced below YER
batim, ct literatim, ct punctuatim