Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-18

ber 16.-Horticultur Week at tn
exposition opens on the 21st wit
the Palace OF Horticulture the seem
of violent activity on that date IL
particular. Five bands will be there
the Hawaiian singers and dancers
Spanish singers and dancers, and a
night everybody will dance through
the aisles of the palace. This will be
a day OF gifts, no less than 100000
packages of flower and vegetable
seeds being offered to visitors Twen-
ty thousand potted ferns will be there
for the ladies, and $4,000 dahlias will
be distributed. Besides this, apples
prunes, cider and fruit of other kinds
will be given away. The fall flower
show will be on during Horticulture
Week and it is expected that this will
prove one OF the expositions most
successful periods.
Chief of horticulture for Oregon,
c. n. Ravlin, has been dressing the
Oregon booth and has made a splen-
did showing with the fruit sent from
different sections of the state. While
Oregon will show an Insignificant
quantity of the apples, peaches, pears,
grapes, ETC., offered by some other
states that are putting tremendous
sums of money into their displays,
the Oregon exhibit will be one of
which Oregonians will have no reason
to feel ashamed. For instance, take
the grapes. This fruit has come but
from two places in Oregon thus far,
and not in great quantity, but the
Oregon booth has beautiful display,
amply large enough to convince any
one that the state does grow grapes
and just as acceptable grapes as other
regions more famed for this fruit.
From a ten-box display sent by A. H.
Carson & Son of Grants Pass, fifty
or sixty fine punches of Tokays and
Malagas have been hung in portiere
effect beneath the big gold-lettered
"Rogue River Valley" sign, and the
effect is stunning. The red and white
bunches alternating offer contrast,
and the lighting in the Horticulture
building filters into the Oregon booth
in such a way that this display of
grapes is a most artistic and attract
i've feature. The Grants Pass grapes
are beautiful in their perfect color
ing, and in the display of 10000
boxes on Grape Day here, last Satur-
day, there we're few bunches finer
than those now hanging in the Ore
gon booth, and none were put up
more attractively than those in the
boxes. Under the Hood River sign
hangs The Dalles contribution of To-
kays, labeled as coming from ]. ].
Fleck. They, also, are beauties, but
of lesser quantity.
Grants Pass has also just sent in
some wonderfully beautiful peaches
from the Fort Vanoy orchards, but |
not more lovely than those now on
display from A. n Wright at Med
ford, and this display as a whole will
please anybody.
Hood River Winter Banana apples
are prettier than anything OF the kind |
on the grounds, and there are good |
looking apples from different sections
of the state. The showing of pears !
is fully M to standard, most Of these |
coming from Ashland and Medford. |
A shipment of D'hnjous from Hood |
River is the only one rivaling the
southern Oregon fruit Coos Bay |
Gravensteins that came in some time
ago are holding up in great shape
and it is believed will be in excellent |
shape for the Horticulture Week.
These apples occupy a whole corner
of the booth in the Horticulture Pal
ace and make a most attractive dis
play.
The Willamette valley fruit display |
is confined largely to a twenty-box
showing of several varieties of apples |
at the Oregon building, these coming
largely from Messrs. Beebe and Olsen
at Eugene. Spitzenburgs, Kings
Northern Spy, NewtownG, Shows and
Wolf Rivers are in the lot, also some
very acceptable pears.
Eastern Oregon's fruit display is
also confined to the Oregon building.
J. A. Lackey is just now completing
a new arrangement of his booth and
is showing some beautiful Winesaps,
Jonathans, Roman Beauties, Della
ware Reds and Ortleys, and he also
has some peaches and pears, the dis
play being very pleasing. Most of
this fruit came from Malheur within
the past few days. Union county
has some Wolf River apples in the
lot, and Baker county some of the
same kind and some Northwest
Greetings.
Taking it as a whole, the Oregon
showing of fruit is good to look upon