NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1908. 
ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF FLOWERS 
Fruits and Vegetables held at Manchester Wednesday and Thursday. 
The annual summer exhibition of 
flowers, fruits and vegetables of the North 
Shore Horticultural society, was held on 
the grounds of the Essex County club, 
Manchester, on Wednesday and “‘Thurs- 
day of this week. While the rain all 
(A. E. Parsons, gardener). ‘This took 
first in the class, a beautiful silver cup. 
Mrs. Leland’s group on the opposite end 
of the tent took second prize, a silver 
medal. 
A feature of the show was the collec- 
Essex Country Cius, MANCHESTER, THE SOCIAL CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE 
day Wednesday and the’ inclement ten- 
dencies of the weather yesterday was re- 
sponsible for a smaller number of entries 
than usual, and caused a poor attendance 
on both days, the quality of the exhibi- 
tion was far superior in many instances 
than the shows of previous years. 
The display was of a most excellent 
nature. ‘Tables were piaced around the 
whole of the huge tent, and were filled 
with beautiful Howers, fruit and vegeta- 
bles, while running lengthwise in the 
center were the more hardy foliage and 
flowering plants. 
A very pretty setting to the rest of the 
display did the three big groups in the 
center give. In the very center was the 
group of foliage and flowering plants 
from Mrs. Lester Leland’s (Eric Wet- 
terlow, gardener). “This was very im- 
posing and won Mrs. Leland the silver 
cup. On the other end was the group 
of ferns from Mrs. Edward S. Grew’s 
tion of vegetables éntered by Mrs. Gor- 
don Abbott. It was not only the best 
display shown this year, but one of the 
finest if not the finest ever exhibited here. 
Mrs. Abbott (William Irwin, gardener) 
won the special prize offered by Thos. 
J. Grey Co. for the best collection of 
vegetables, 12 distinct sorts, etc., and al- 
so the special offered by Schlegel & 
Fottler Co., for the best collection of 
vegetables. Schlegel & Fottler Co. also 
offered a special prize for the best col- 
lection of tomatoes and Mrs. Abbott 
won this, too. ‘The table of tomatoes 
included over thirty varieties, ranging in 
size from the red currant tomato to the 
Livingston’s new coreless. 
A novel exhibit that attracted univer- 
sal attention was the vegetable bouquet 
entered by Mrs. W. Scott Fitz, the 
work of her gardener, Wm. Kiss. The 
bouquet occupied a small stand in the 
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RANDOM THOUGHTS. 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
No. XXVII. 
It is something to be grateful for, that 
whichever of the leading Presidential can- 
didates is elected, we may be reasonably 
sure of a clean and upright administra- 
tion; there may be a preference for cer- 
tain party principles or policies, but eith- 
er candidate must be respected even by 
his political opponents. It is agreat thing 
to have personal animosities and_ bitter- 
ness eliminated from a Presidential cam- 
paign; inthis respecttimes have changed 
for the better. 
Native taste sometimes counts for 
more than ‘culture; a mere layman -in 
art may see more ina picture than one 
who has all the advantages that the 
schools furnish; one may have more eye 
for perspective without training, than 
another with years of artistic theory and 
practice: 
‘The same holds true in other things. 
Hugh Miller, the stone-mason, was mas- 
ter of a better English style than a ma- 
jority of the scholars in the United 
Kingdom. Dwight Moody, rising ina 
few years from the shop counter, be- 
came one of the greatest preachers in 
America. 
All of which does not prove that edu- 
cation and training are by any méans 
us l:ss; as amatter of fact, these men 
had some of the best kind of education 
and training, if not of the technical sort. 
Perhaps all that can be said is, that a 
foundation needs to be laid in nature; 
and then, the more that can be done by 
study and art to improve it, if they can 
improve it, the better. 
Some things there are that the passing 
age does not take too seriously; among 
them is Solomon’s rod, which is quite 
out of fashion nowadays, doubtless be- 
cause its usefulness was somewhat exag- 
gerated by our forefathers; for another 
thing, we are told that sermons must be 
short, while playwrights are allowed am- 
ple scope and verge, as if when the 
world refuses to hear Moses and the 
prophets it is going to be persuaded by 
Smith and Jones. 
We pride ourselves much upon our 
modern improvements in the art of war; 
but Turks with their scimitars, High- 
landers with their broadswords, English 
archers with their cloth-yard shafts, did 
