St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-09-05
postponed, will be held at Morrisville,
September 25, 26 and 81.
Vermont Peaches.


September 25 rs and 81.
Vermont Peaches.
It has been question for years in some
Vermont towns whether apples could be
grown. Peaches have hardly been thought
OF anywhere in the state except by few
enthusiasts. Nevertheless there have
been instances, rather frequent of late
years, in which good peaches have been
grown and ripened out of doors in YER
mont.
The horticulturist of the Experiment
Station sends information of consider
able peach crops grown in various parts
of the state this year. Last winter is
said to have been especially favorable /;
but the station horticulturist thinks it
practicable to grow peaches and get good
crops fairly often in all the milder local
titles of the state. The peach can never
be staple crop, but it can be grown in
well.cared for home gardens with suffic
ent success to satisfy any farmer who is
at all inclined to gardening.
We are also informed of one successful
crop Of apricots grown in a Burlington
garden.
Petitions to the Legislature.
The Montpelier Daily Journal says
Application will be made to the next gen.
eral assembly to lay tax on Chittenden
county to repair and enlarge the court
house; to annex to the city of Burlington
all the territory not now included there
in which lies within the town of Burling-
ton as originally chartered; to annex
South Burlington to Burlington; to an
mex that part of Wiliston originally Bur-
llngton to Burlington; to annex the part
ofColchester called Winooski village and
Wlnooski park, either or both, to the city
of Burlington; to make the main channel
of the Winooskiriver the line between Will
listen and Jericho, and to annex the towns
of South Hero and Grand Isle to Chitten-
den county and the rest Of Grand Isle coun-
ty to Franklin county.
This is not a new scheme. In an adj
dress delivered before the Vermont Bar
Association in 1898 Chief Judge Taft
maintained that "a county is nothing
but court district. 1t can take no ac-
ton as municipality, there is no neces-
SASy iOi q SONlIl NANN pL clS q (oulI us
trict, therefore in follows that a county
should be organized solely with reference
to the courts and with more equality be-
tween them than now exists. Grand
Isle should be abolished, the south end
annexed to Chittenden and the remainder
to Franklin. 1t is said that
Grand Isle county may be unwilling to
surrender its body polite. Very likely
were it dukedom it would be unlikely
to voluntarily surrender its ducal privi-
leges; were it a kingdom, it would no
doubt vote to retain its king. The real
question is, what is for the public veal,
not what the people Grand Isle want"
Grand Isle has less than 1000 popua-
ton. Rutland county, for instance, has
nearly, ii not quite $4,000. Every city
and many towns in the state each exceed
Grand Isle county in population, and yet
Grand Isle courts are organized on pre-.
clseIy the same scale as those OF Rutland
Chlttenden Washington and other coun-
ties. At recent session of court in
Crane Isle county the business Of the
term was completed in few minutes less
than four hours while the same term of
court in Washington county lasted from
tall to spring and was adjourned in order
tor another judge to open another term,
the unfinished business being continued
by order of the court.