The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-22
FRUITS AND
VEGETABLES
Range of Choice Specimens
Left Little to Be
Desired
LARGE DISPLAY OF
APPLES AND PEARS
Retreat Garden Exhibit Covered One
Side of Hall-Good Show of Potatoes
in Spite of Blight and Rot-Flowers
and Canned Fruit.

The display of fruits on the second
floor of the agricultural building wbiIe
not so extensive as last wear. which
was one of the greatest fruit wears in
history of the country, was well worth
inspecting. In point of choice speei-
mems of wide variety of the product
OF Vermont S fruit trees it left little
TO be desired.
In one group were strawberries.
blackberries and raspberries from the
bushes of barrow & Aiken in Pu+nev
The Green Mountain Orchards of Put
ney, W. II. Darrow and H. p, Stafford
proprietors, had the largest variety of
apples on display. Among other speci-
mems they showed Baldwins, Ben Da-
VS., Longfeld, Greetings of several va
rletles, Spitzenburg, Twenty Ounce.
strawberry, GilliflOwer, Haskell, Toll
man Sweet, Northern Spy, Blue Pear
main and several varieties of Russets.
Others who showed fine lots of apples
were E. Il. Hildreth of Brattleboro.
Dana II. Stafford of Brattleboro. O. w.
AmIdon of Grove, always a large ex-
hlbltor in this branch of industry. Ar
thur l.. Miller of West Brattieboro.
who had among others some unusual
specimens of the Wolf River, the
Scott farm, c. L. Witherell of Middle
bury and NJ. E. Chamberlain & Son of
West BrattlebOrO, whose exhibit in
eluded some. fine pears. ofNseyeral- xa--
rieties.
Mrs. E. ". Aiken of Putney had
some fine pears and peaches and f. w.
| Rice Of Amesbury, Mass, several va
rieties of peaches. E. b. Barrows of
BrattleborO displayed some pears of
exceptional size and quality and
James \. Horton of Greenfield, Mass,
had an attractive display of grapes, as
! did r. III. Messenger of Brattleboro.
Mrs. \. G. Stacy of Brattleboro showed
pears and apples and some fine black
berries. Newton NJ. Hastings and
Charles Nesbitt were sponsors for some
peaches of several popular varieties.
The display of canned vegetables and
fruit, while not of very large proper
lions, was of the sort that brought to
mind well filed fruit cellars. Among
those who had displays in this line
were Ida Weatherhead of Guilford,
Mrs. \. w. Sweeton, Mrs. A. G. Stacy,
Mabel T. COombs, and Mrs. G. ID. Pratt
lof Bernardston, who included jelly in
her display, while her daughter, Lottie
Pratt, IS years old, had tempting dis
play of jelly. d. G. Yeaw exhibited a
fancy decanter of cider vinegar. On
this floor was an attractive display of
honey by Robert G. Coombs.
The usual attractive display of cut
flowers and plants was made by c. S.
Hopkins, florist. Miss Marjorie Pier
and Mrs. Frank Pier had on display
several varieties tastefully arranged.
Asters were shown by Mrs. A. w.
lSweeton. Paul Taylor and L. f. Holden.
Mr.. Holden also showed zinnias, SALIVA,
cosmos and cannas. Mrs. Charles +.
White of Griswoldvillc, Mass, had a
lprettily arranged "old-fashioned bou-
quet of our grandmother s day" There
was pretty collection of wild flowers
from Leon johnson of West Brattlebo-
70, &c varieties of ferns and sc varie-
ties Of wild flowers by Mrs. Harold
! Smith, dahlias by Mrs. a. p. Simonds,
marigolds by Mrs. G. Broekington,
. gladioli by Mrs. +. III. Johnson of
West Brattleboro and numerous other
small exhibits.
On the ground floor the usual large
exhibit from the BrattlebOro Retreat
farm occupied one side of the hall.