The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-10
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
Schedule for Next Thursdays Joint Exhibi-
ton at Horticultural Hall.


A joint exhibition under the aus
pices of the Worcester Agricultural So
ciety and the Worcester County
Horticultural Society is to be
given at horticultural Hall next
Thursday beginning at 10 a.
m. and continuing until p. m. All
the articles offered for premiums must
be in the hall at 10 a. M A dinner
will be served at / o'clock, at which
President o. b. Hadwen of the Hor-
Ncultural Society will preside, and it is
expected that Mayor Dodge, Secretary
Sessions and several members of the
state board of agriculture and dele
cation from the Massachusetts Horti-
cultural Society will be present At
the dinner the awards in the following
special classes will be made as a re-
suit of the examinations made last
month on the premises of the own
ers:
Dairy, for the best entire herd of ten
mich cows-$4O $50, 500 and $40.
For the best field of celery, not less
than 5000 plants-$20, SIS, $40 and IS.
For the best acre of field corn-$15,
$40 and S..
For the best acre of ensilage corn
SIS, $40 and S..
For the best half-acre of cabbages-
S12. SIS and So
The regular schedule of premiums Of
fered by the Horticultural Society is
as follows:
Cut flowers in any form-Gratuity.
Apples-Fallawater 50, $3.50, 81 and
Soc; Peck, $3.50, 81 and Soc; Pound
Sweets, $1.50, 81 and 50c.; Rhode Island
Creening, 49, 80, $3.50, 81 and Soc; other
varieties, not scheduled, gratuity
Pears-Anjou 81, SO, 81, $1.50, 81 and
Soc; Comice, 81, SO, 81, $1.5o. 81 and
soc.
Vegetables Squash, Bay State, 81,
$3.50, 81 and Soc; parsley, half-peck,
S1.50, 81 and 50c,; turnip, Purple Top
Globe, 50, $3.50, 81 and Soc; White Egg,
81, $780, 81 and Soc; Brussels Sprouts,
$3.50, 81 and soc.
In addition to the above regular
schedule, the following special pre-
miums will be offered by the two so
cieties Jointly:
Apples, IL on Baldwin, Fa-
meuse, Hubbardston, Tompkins King,
Lyscom, Mcclellan. Northern Spy,
Palmer, Sutton Beauty Twenty Ounce.
Sweet, Hyslop Crab, three premiums
in each c1ass-$1.50, 81 and soc.
Pears, II on plate-Bosc. Lawrence,
Louise Bonnie de Jersey. Onondago,
Paradis d Automne, Seckel, Sheldon,
Urbaniste, Angouleme, or any other
variety-$1 so, 81 and soc.
Grapes, three punches on a plate
Concord. Worden, Green Mountain, Nj
agara, or any other variety-$150, 81
and soc.
Plums, 70 on a plate, any variety
$780, 81 and SOC.
Peaches, u on a plate, any variety
1.50 81 and soc.
Ounces, IL on a plate Champion and
Orange-s150, 81 and SOC.
Beets, Turnip Beets-$1.50, 81 and
SOC.
Cabbages- stonemason, Savoy and
Red--$1.5o 81 and Soc
Carrots, 12-Table-S150. 81 and Soc
Caulifiower-$15 0, 81 and soc.
Celery, 6 roots-Golden, Giant Pas
cal, or any other variety-$.50 81 and
SOC.
Corn, Il. ears Early Sweet. Late
Sweet and Crosby-$15O, 81 and SOC
Onions-Red, Silver Skin, Yellow
Globe-$1.5O, 81 and 5Oc.
Parsnips, - of any variety-s1.50, 81
and soc.
$3.50. 81 and Soc; collection of four
Three premiums of $1.50, 81 and SOC.
each are offered in the following
classes:
Pumpkins, field and sugar; peppers,
any variety; squash, Hubbard, Turban
or any variety not named in either
of the above schedules; satisfy; tur-
nips, White Egg, White Swedes, yell
low Swedes; spinach; lettuce; toma-
toes, any named variety; corn, trace of
rs ears of IL rowed, trace of rs ears of
s rowed, and trace of % ears of pop;
field beans