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THE ILLINOIS FARMER 



Kov. 



Best egg plant, D W and G W Tenny. 

 2d best. J Periam. 

 do pepper, J Periam. 

 do sugar beets, J Periam. 



FRUIT DEPARTJIDNT. 



In the fruit department is a large collection 

 of paintings of fruit of natural size and color, ex- 

 hibited by Dr. J. E. Kimball, of Iowa City, and 

 painted by J. & G. Prestle. It may be new to 

 eur Western fruit growers to know that these 

 gentlemen, father and son, do this kind of work 

 for the Eastern nurserymen, and also similar 

 paintings in all branches of natural history for 

 the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C. 

 Shall we pay tribute to Eastern dealers on the 

 products of Western artists ? This department 

 has been from the first the great center of at- 

 traction, more especially that section labeled 

 "Egypt," whose great orb like apples, immense 

 pears, lucious gripes and melting peaches, at- 

 tract the lovers of fruit. Northern grown fruits 

 are nowhere The choice collection from the 

 "Leyden farm," and others, are in the same fix. 

 There is but o^e way to do in the premises, and 

 that is, to divii^ie the land, so far as to make up a 

 list of premiums for each section of the state, this 

 has its advantages as well as disadvantages, but 

 in a show of this kind, size and beauty will al- 

 ways win The northern orchardist may con- 

 tend that his fruits, though smaller, are more 

 highly flavored, but this will not avail him, for 

 the big showy fiuit will carry the day on all such 

 occasions. 



It is interesting to observe what effect climate 

 has on the size of almost all kinds of fruits, more 

 especially apples and pears. The difference be- 

 tween those grown near the lake and those at Al- 

 ton find outh Pass; in Union county. The Iowa 

 fruits are also a fair size, and in all respects very 

 good. The collection of James Smith & Son, 

 which is graced with the blue ribbon, is worthy 

 of especial notice — not that it is the largest, but 

 that the fruits are well grown and true to name. 

 Mrs. J. A. Kennicot. Kenwood, 111., first pre- 

 mium on each, fresh fruits, best peaches, first 

 premium ; cherries, first premium ; raspberries, 

 first premium; blackberries, first premium; 

 strawberries, first premium. 



Preparation — Three-quarters of a pound of 

 sugar to one pound of fruit ; one-half the amount 

 of sugar layered with the fruit, in shallow ves- 

 sels, stand over night then poor off the syrup, 

 with which mix the remaining half of sugar ; 

 bring to a boil ; strain and then poor OQ the fruit 

 while hot. 



Large fruits may require a second scalding of 

 the syrup. 



LIST OF EXHIBITORS. 



It will be interesting to know who arethefruij; 

 growers and their location as an index to the 

 source to which we may look for good fruits: 



H W Austin, of Harlem. 



Suel Foster, brother of Dr Foster of this city, 

 of Muscatine, Iowa, apples. 



C H Hibbard, Mc Henry county. 



J G Sherman, Rockford. 



George Haskell, Michigan. 



Samuel Edwards, Bureau county. 



J A Pettengill, Macoupin county. 



H Chaffre, Tolono. 



Mrs Asa Reeves, L B Piatt & Co, fruit dealers, 

 presented specimens of peaches in baskets from 

 the Michigan peach growers, all very fine sam- 

 ples. 



W S Steele, of Evanston, had a fine lot of 

 the Lawton blackberry, also a seedling black 

 cap raspberry. 



H H Mar.<b, of Chicago, German prunes. 



C H Hibbard, craub rries. 



J E Starr, of Elsah, Jersey county, plums and 

 peaches. 



E C Peck, Winetka, 111, a large collection of 

 pears. 



B Galusha, President of the Society, shows 

 apples, pears and small fruit dried in sugar. 



Joel Reeves, of Ainsworth, Cook county — his 

 apples and fruit dried in sugar. 



Francis Hooker, of Chicago, giapes. 



Jas Smith & Son, of Des Moines, Iowa, grapes. 



L A Tolcott, b isket peaches for market. 



L A Houston, Lee county, apples and plums. 



Suel Foster, pears and apples. 



Wm Muir, Secretary of the Missouri State 

 Horticultural Society, wine from the Merrimack 

 Horticultural Society. 



K H Fell, of Bloomington pears. 



A & F Starr, of Alton, a large collection of 

 apples. 



A R Whitney, apples. Mr W did not compete 

 for premiums. He may be said to be rather a 

 large orchardist, having a crop of four thousand 

 bushels now on his trees — a pretty good answer 

 to the oft repeated question, "Can you grow ap- 

 ples in Northern Illinois." 



J A Carpenter, of South Pass, (Coben Station) 

 twelve apple and six dw^irf pear trees. 

 . Parker Earle, South Pass apples. 



G H Baker, South Pass pears, grapes and ap- 

 ples. 



Benj Vancil, South Pass, pears and apples. 



C A Montross, Centralia, pears. 

 Evans and Brother, South Pass, apples, pears, 

 grapes and peaches — am(ng them a seedling 

 peach of very large size and high promise. 



Samuel Dunlap, of Harlem, apples. 



Mrs D M P Davis, of Winetka, Lawton black- 

 berries. 



Isaac A Poole, currant wine. 

 A S & George Barry, of Alton, pears and cur- 

 rant wine, 

 Dr E S Hull, of Alton, grapes and peaches. 



Geo Booth, Alton, peaches. 



