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The Illinois Faemer 



YOL. vnr. 



SPRINGFIELD, ILL., JULY, 1863. 



NO. 7. 



DEVOTED TO THE 



FARM, THE ORCHARD AND THE GARDEN, 



PUBLISHED BT 



• BAILHACHE & BAKER, 



SPRmGFIELD, ----- ILLINOIS. 



Ikl. L. DTJ2Srr4i5^I>, Editor. 



All business letters should be addressed to the 

 publishers. 



^^^ExcHANGES and all matters pertaining to the 



editorial department, must be directed to Illinois 



Farmbk, Champaign, III., as the editor resides at 



that point, and is seldom at the oflBco of publication, 



from which he is distant over eighty miles. 



*4j* For terms see prospectus and special notices in 

 advertising department. 



State Horticulturnl Pair. 



This Fair is to be lield this year at 

 Eockford, Sept. 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th. 

 The premium list is ready, and can be 

 had of H. P. Kimball, Rockford, and 

 probably of most of the officers. The 

 hst is a liberal one, and cannot fail to 

 draw out a large number of competit- 

 ors. ■'■ ,.■■■■■ 



This Society has become one of the 

 most important in the State, and its 

 usefulness is apparent to the most ob- 

 tuse. It does not in the least interfere 

 with the State Agricultural Society, 

 which offers its usual list of premiums 

 in the department of horticulture. 



That the Fair will be the best ever 

 held in the State we have the guarantee 



of some of the most enterprising florists 

 and pomologists in the North West. 



It will be recollected that the garden- 

 ers of Kockford, at the last Fair held 

 in Chicago, outvied their great cit j ri- 

 vals, and carried off most of the pre- 

 miums, in fact the Chicago gardeners" 

 did little else but growl and stand in 

 the back ground, while the Rockford 

 gardners took the prizes and nearly all 

 the honors. The stigma thus cast on 

 the floral skill of Chicago will not soon 

 be wiped out. If the gardeners of that 

 city have a grain of pride, they will in-ir-- 

 vade Rockford in force during fair week," 

 and try to retrieve their lost honor. If 

 these men think that because Chicago 

 is the commercial emporium of the 

 "West, they need only grow their plants 

 and customers will come to them as a. 

 matter of course, they may sometime 

 wake up to the fact that they are a bit 

 mistaken. Rockford is favorably con- 

 nected by rail with the [NTorth West, and 

 her central position wiU make her a 

 troublesome competitor with the Gar- 

 den City. 



The fine prospect of fruit in the north 

 part of the State wiU give a new im- 

 pulse to the show, and we have no 

 doubt that the tables will groan with 

 the rich spoils of the orchard. 



The Society has ignored all shams 

 and mysteries. Ko committees will be 

 blindfolded, the working points and 

 scale of values will be open to inspec- 



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