Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-03-23
AMERICAN FRUITEXHIBIT
Large Shipment Of Apples Sent
to the Paris Exposition.
OVER TWO THOUSAND BARRELS.

Said to lie the Finest Exhibit Of App
pies the United states Has Ever
Mnde-CHIifornia VIII Send Fort
nightly shipment. OF Fruit - In
structise Feature of the Display.
The 81. Paul recently carried across
the Atlantic the United States exhibit
Of apples for the Paris exposition. II
Is pronounced ly those who have had
charge uS the collection. storage and
shipment Of this fruit Ia be the fiutsl
exhibit cf apples ever made by liz,
United States There are ia all about
2,5o0 barrels. representing the or
chlrds of the entire country, SAYS
the Washington correspondent OF Ia,
New York sun. As the exhibit was
volunteer one. some states have
very large collections. and others. while
sending smaller exhibits. are thorough
~ represented. california has 2Jl bar
rclS. and Missouri sends from her mag
nticeut orchards in the Ozark noun
taiRS about 200 barrels. There ars
large exhibits from Michigan. Illinois,
New York. Indiana. Pennsylvania and
North Carolina. Virginia, Connecticut
and West Virginia are represented by
very choice examples of a great mum
Der Of varieties, although the aggre
gate in each is not large. New York
sends 200 hushel boxes. showing the
standard line OF best Keeping winter
apples.
All these collections have been made
under direction of the division Of po
mology of the department OF agricul
turc. chiefly under the superintendent.
cy of Colonel Bracket. the pomologiSt
and his assistant, Mr.. W. A. Taylor.
the secretary Of the American Pomo,
Paris Il few days ago to get ready for
the arrival of this exhibit and install
it in its place in the United States
building. All these apples are double
wrapped first with parchment butter
paper and then with the regular apple
fruit wrappers made OF manila tissue.
l.um the moment these various eXhib
its We're picked and packed especial
care was taken to insure the best con.
ditiOn of preservation. The fruit was
collected at various cold storage cen.
tiers and shipped in refrigerator cars to
New York and placed in large cold
$ rage compartment on the st. faul
.,aScd by the government for the trip.
The only time that these apples will be
out Of cold storage since they came out
of the orchards will be during the few
hours when they are in transit from
Havre to Paris as the French have no
refrigerator cars.
one Of the finest features Of the h0r-
ticultural exhibit will be furnished by
the Califuruians, whose legislature ap-
propriated $4,000 for the purpose.
They intend to send all during the fruit
season this coming summer, fortnight
ly. specimens in refrigerator cars and
the refrigerator compartments OF the
ocean steamers Of pears. plums aud
peaches. They will also send grapes
as soon as the new crop comes in.
The horticultural exhibit will be open
ed April 10. and there will be con.
tinuous exhibit of all American fruits
until Nov. 10. Mr.. Taylor made
splendid effort to have an exhibition Of
Catawba grapes at the opening In
April and had an agent at Hammonds.
port. y. y, to make the selections last
fall. But the early frost on Oct. 20
made ii impossible to get Catawhas
that would keep until April There
will also be exhibited In connection
with the fresh fruits large exhibit Of
canned and dried fruit of every lie.
scription known to the American mar.
ket and varied and extensive collec-
ton of vege ables.
The most instructive feature Of the
exhibit will appear In large number
of photographs. showing every phase
in the business Of raising fruit IN our
large commercial orchards. There il
large collection also on the orna men.
tai side of American horticulture. 1t
is the aim of the apple growers in the
United States 10 break down II posi-.
bic this year, by the exhibit OF fruit at
Paris. the prejudice of Germany
against our apples. All the leading
German hortlculturists have been in
vitcd to make a special examination OF
the American exhibit. The Germans
have barred out our apples, and even
our dried fruits. on the ground that
the San Jose scale. which is very de.
Structive of orchards. would be ear
ricd into their country on the fruit.
Leading scientists Of the United States
and of Germany also have proved sew.
eral times by experiments that this
cannot he the case Still our fruit Is
kept out of Germany. The department
officials are confident that the great
battle between science and prejudice
will be fought out successfully at Paris
this summer