1862. 



THE ILLINOIS FAEMRE. 



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or quite all of the valuable hardy evergreens. 

 In this connection we take occasion to do full 

 justice to our Blootnington friend, by giving a 

 a list of TVhat we omitted yesterday. In his col- 

 lection are eighty-three varieties of verbenas un- 

 der name, forty- four hardy roses, forty-six of ap- 

 ples, seventy thaee-year old apple trees, thirty 

 two-year old apple trees, eighty-six varieties of 

 dahlias, and fourteen of pears. Taken all to- 

 gether, the ccllection is among the largest and 

 most varied iii the hall. 



Half a dozen plants of cotton, from the farm 

 of M. L. Dunlap, of Champaign, have been added 

 to-day. The plants are an average of those in a 

 lot of three-fourths of an acre, under field cul- 

 ture, as recommended by "Rural" in the Trib- 

 une last March, Many of the bolls are nearly 

 full grown, and will be ready for picking the last 

 of this month. The season has not been favora- 

 ble to this plant, the wet weather giving it too 

 rank a growth, at the expense of early maturity. 



VEGETABLES. 



The vegetable departuent is but poorly repre- 

 sented, so far as the number of entries are con- 

 cerned, while in the quality of the specimens 

 they are unsurpassed. The Society offered pre- 

 miums for well grown table vegetables, not the 

 overgrown Brobdignags so common at all fairs, 

 consequently the exhibitors have confined them- 

 selves to that class of vegetables that are the 

 most desirable in the kitchen. The Tremontand 

 sevei'al other gardens are not represented, for the 

 want of proper assistance to prepare for the ex- 

 hibition ; this is to be regretted, but undar pres- 

 ent circumstances, must be borne. This difficul- 

 ty has not been confined to this department, but 

 has extended to all others, and it is really sur- 

 prising to most visitors to see the hall as well 

 filled as it is. 



In this department Mr. J. Periam, of Calumet, 

 is the most prominent, his collection filling near- 

 ly a hundred feet of table room, and consists of 

 sixty-six vaoieties, iucluding many novelties, 

 many of which promise to be valuable. The dis- 

 play of melons is unequaled, comprising Moun- 

 tain Sprout, Black Spanish and Imperial. The 

 family of squashes are not so large as select, the 

 big ones having been set aside for those more val- 

 uable for culinary purposes. Among these the 

 Boston Marrow ranks at the head. Mr. P. has 

 a good collection of sweet potatoes, comprising 

 Early Nansemond, Red Bermuda and Yellow Ber- 

 muda. A dozen years ago the man who would 

 propose to grow sweet potatoes on the plains of 

 C&lumet would have been called insane, but here 



we have the proof positive that the thing can be 

 done, as will be seen by the list of awards. To- 

 day, for the first time, this collection has attract- 

 ed considerable attention. The part of the hall 

 devoted to this lot being but poorly lighted, visit- 

 ors have passed it by until the gas light in the 

 evening, shows up this great variety of "garden 

 truck." 



D. W. and G. W. Tenny, of the town of Lake, 

 show a good collection of vegetables, among them 

 esrg plants of enormous size, flue celery, cauli 

 flowers, etc. 



G. B. Alverson, Rockfcrd, shows onions and 

 tomatoes, all fine. A. W. WelJon, Rockford, 

 shows onions of the Denver's Yellow variety. 

 Joel Reeves, of Ainsworth, shows Irish potatoes 

 and nutmeg melons. Newhall & Clark, of South 

 Pass — a superb show of Nansemond rweet pcta~ 

 toes. J. C. lire, of "Grapeton Garden," shows 

 yellow pumpkins, that "is pumpkins,'-' also mel- 

 ons and winter radish, all fine and well grown. 



AWAKDS ON VEGETABLES. 



Best display, 1st premium, J Periam 



2d premium, D W and G W Tenny. 

 Best collection Irish potatoes, J Periam. 



2d best, the same. 

 Best late Irish potatoes, Joel Reeves. 

 Most profitable market potatoe, J Periam. 

 (Early York.) 



Best sweet potatoes, Newhall and Clark. 



2d best, J Periam. 

 Best late beets, J. Periam. 

 Early beets, J Periam. 

 Table parsnips, D W & G W Tenny. 

 Early table turnips, the same. 

 Table carrots, the same. 

 Winter radish, J C Ure. 

 Yellow onion, G W Alverson. 

 Eill onions, J Periam. 

 Sett onions, from previous year, J Pe?iam. 

 Early sweet corn, J Periam. 

 Extra early dwarf sweet, corn and late do, J 

 Periam. 



2d best, D W and G W Tenny. 

 Best okra, J Periam. 

 Lima Beans, J Periam. 



Best and largest variety of garden peas, J Per- 

 iam. 



do late market, Mr Strocham, of Rockfcrd. 



do early cucumber, D W and G W Tenny. 



do water melon, J Periam. 

 Best citron melon, D W and G W Tenny. 



do cantelope melon, H W Austin. 



do Hubbard squash, D W and G W Tenny. 



do Boston Marrow, D W and G W Tenny ^ 



do suinam squash, J Periam. 



do golden pumpkin, J C Ure. 



do celery, D W and G W Tenny. 



do early cabbage, J Periam. 



60 culliflower, D W and G W Tenny. 



do tomato, the same. 



2d best, J. Periam. 



