Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-09-28

tractive exhibit Of ornamental gourds, pie
pumpkins and pineapple and delcata
squashes. Small but merltorious displays
were made by G. f. Hubbard of West
moreland, n. II and Charles W. Sargent.
Smaller exhiOits we're made by George
Z CrOwell. II. A. Stebbins, John Farnum,
Chas. E. Farnum, George d. Odell, S. l..
Goodell, W. b. Haskell and Charles Harris
Of Brattlebo-o, r. f. Fisher and j. P. Goode-
nough of Yves, Brattleboro, Ida Weather
head Of Guilford, Warren b. Dnnklee, A.
A. Dunklee and Ernest Dunklee of South
Vernon, G. Baxter Reed of Bernardston
and c. d. Potter of New Salem, Mass.
The grains consisted principally OF corn,
by Merrill T. Moore of Mortified, G.. w.
Sargent and G. w. Pierce Of Brattleboro.
o. w. Amidon Of Dummerston and A. G..
Brown OF West Halifax, field beans by j.
q. Stafford, wheat, rye, barley and buck
wheat by j. p. Llscom, beans by Mrs
Lolita Bingham of Guilford, and rye by
William II. Winslow of West Brattleboro.
On one side of the entrance to the build
ing was large castor bean stock, exhibit
ed by j. Z. Lawrence, which attracted
much attention, and on the other side was
a Chinese yam over 20 feet high, exhibited
by John p. Goodenough of West Brattle-
boro.
There has n9ver been a parallel at the
Valley Fair TO the show of apples made
this year. The crop has been unusually
abundant, and the result was better ex-
hibits and more of them than ever before.
Probably the largest single exhibit of APP
Piles ever seen in the hall was made by +.
K. Wetherell & Son of Warwick, Mass,
who had over 100 varieties. One could
scarcely mention a variety that was not in
cluded in this exhibit and all of them
were of excellent quality
An exhibit of over so varieties was
made by l.. o. Gum of Millers Falls,
Mass, which for general excellence could
not be beaten. f. l.. Wellman of Gull
ford Centre, followed Mr.. Gum closely
with 45 varieties. Next in order, in point
OF number of varieties, was j. G. Stafford
with 40 varieties, and then came (. B.
Barrows with 32 varieties and then H. N.
Burnett of West Bratteboro with 80.
Other noteworthy exhibits of apples
were made by o. W. Amidon of Dummer-
ston, who had 20 varieties, +. II. Miller of
Halifax with 10, Laura j. Haskins with
ID, j. A. Miller of Dummerston with 12,
j. w. Scott of Spofford, N. H., with 10,
and Charles F. Wilson of West Dummer-
ston with about 10. A plate of Wolfe
River apples shown by d. McGillivray of
Brattleboro was probably the largest and
best exhibited in this town.
No exhibit of peaches was ever made at
the Valley Fair that equalled that made by
j. A. Miller of Dummerston. The
peaches were arranged in a large shallow
case standing against the wall, nine varie-
ties in all, and more tempting display
could hardly be imagined Another re-
markedly clean and wholesome exhibit of
peaches was made by W. II. Alexander of
West Brattleboro. j. p. Liscomb of West
Brattleboro also showed handsome collec-
tion of peaches, and four varieties of pears.
The largest collection of pears was
shown by l.. o. +. Gum of Millers Falls,
who had II varieties. Mrs. Laura j.
Haskins and L. M. Howe of Brattleboro
and f. E. Wetherell & Soa of Warwick
also made good exhibits of pears.
James A. Horton of Greenfield, who al
ways leads with grapes, had IS varieties,
one bunch of Niagaras weighing % ounces.