The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-03-04
splendid Exhibit Sent to Fair-Otber
Punta Gorda Products Also
Win Prizes.
De SOTO STANDS FIFTH IN
LIST OF COUNTIES ENTERED
county Exhibit Makes Better Show.
ing Than at State Fair.


fact has been proved again. Tbot
Funta Gorda raises the best pine
apples in Florida and this means they
are the best in the world.
Flneapples grown at Punta Gorda
look the first prize at the State Fair,
held at Jacksonville a few months
ago and again at the South Florida
falr at Tampa. The prize-winning
pines were grown by A. Rickenbach.
the award being based upon the
quality Of fruit; and Punta Gorda
was awarded first place for her ex-
hibtt of pines.
In addition to taking first award
on pineapples, Punta Gorda won first
prize on beets and Irish potatoes:
third on beans; and with Wauchula
shared honors for the second best
collection Of vegetables.
DeSoto county stood fifth in the
long list of counties having exhibits.
thus making better showing than in
the state fair, in which DeSoto stood
eighth.
OF the DeSoto county exhibit and
Punta Gorda's pines, the Tampa Tri-
bune had the following to say:
Miss Connie r. DeVane, the home
demonstration agent, was holding
forth when the booth was visited by
The Tribune man, and If there was
anything overlooked we don't know
what 1t was.
ITO begin with there was some
wonderful honey and some bleached
and unbleached wax, but the thing to
eaten every eye was q display of large
luscious pineapples - the largest
Florida pineapples ever shown at any
fair. There are enormous naval or
anges, and Miss DeVane said that a
display of twenty-five varieties of or
anges sent in by one grower of Desc
10 county had not yet arrived and
nat the wires were being kept hot
o locate the shipment and bring IL
n by truck. There is some gigantic
celery and an attractive display of
assava root and the starch derived
rom 1t. Peppers as big as canta-
oupes, rice grown in Arcadia. stock
eed, potatoes and pecans from
Bowling Green.
Corn, sweet potatoes and bananas.
nd practically every variety of vega
able that Florida can produce, and
n unusually handsome arrangement
citrus fruits also, showed the var
'ty of crops which this fertile sec
on of the state can produce.
Those pineapples that everyone
raving over, said Miss DeVane,
re from Punta GOrda, and we are
lowing both the bloom and the ripe
'uit; all are shade grown and given
lie most scientific care; in fact, the
pineries" in this section are the
est in the world The lady was
king on some territority, but the
oods backed up her words. There
the biggest papaya you ever saw
nd there was a still bigger one on
le bunch that came from, but the
rover who owned it gave 1t to a
'urist to send up north. You can't
eat that home-cured lard, and
link we have more lemons in Desc
county than are elsewhere in the
ate. Here is six different kinds.
nd here is thing you never saw be-
re in your life; 1t is "tangerine
me"-a cross between the tanger-
e and Tahiti lime
This novelty was displayed in
inches. 1t is the size OF a small
but in color is partly dark
d and partly dark green and pre-
nts a most unusual combination of
e two popular shades. AS the
uit hangs on the tree the green is
ove the red, so we would suggest
Hing 1t the Limerick lime
"As In all the other county ex-
BITS, one cannot but admire and
aise the work of the home dem
agents as shown in the
rk of the different canning clubs.
e object Is to make every home
f-sustaining and to make the
ntry of every residence a young
'cery store. Meats, fish, fruits.
d vegetables all are displayed in a
, DeSote county booth. the All
md of tomatoes in real CONNER
| tins being especially worthy of
ntion."