Show FRUIT SHOW AT OGDEN Soma Comments on the Exhibit Ex-hibit by an Expert ABOUT UTAH ORCHARDISTS What Ono Man dAfter d-After Reaching 70 Years Praise for People Who Prepared for tho Exhibition and for Those Who Arranged Display Ogdon Utah Sopt 20One very noticeable fact was that the gentlemen gen-tlemen in charge of the fruit collections collec-tions from the several States shown during dur-ing the Irrigation congress here were the equal In appearance Intelligence and business acumen to any average member of a banker or merchants association The fad Is palint to all that only scion llfic and wideawake men can hope to grow fruit or to properly exhibit It in auccoasful competition In this progressive Hire 4 One of the successful Utah fruUTgrow ers scent In the horticultural was Mr Henry I 10 Gibson for many years a prominent business man of OGden but now the owner of a 1 fine apple orchard In tine I Syracuse district Davis county Mr Gibson planted the trees in his present orchard seven yearn ago last spring he being at that time 70 years of age From the beginning tine space between the trees has produced crops sufficient to pay all running expenses and during the lasl two seasons a fair crop of apples has been gathered This year Mr Gibson will market mar-ket more than S10CO worth of apples from his ten acres of orchard The help hired to run the place has been Inconsiderable and Mr Gibson despite his 77 years Is halo and hearty and anticipates many years of plcasuire and prollt vet to come from his I beautiful l orchard l I what a lee Ion I-on to the timid man of middle Uje who says If I were only younger r t > Tt was admitted sub rosa that even Idaho and Oregon had Home wormy apples ap-ples at horn but that their delegates were such uptodate horticulturists as to know they could nol sneak them Into a fruit ahoiv This Is I a pointer for certain backnnmbci l horticulturists from Grand and Suit Lake counties who handicapped Utah by their Incompetence as Slate officials of-ficials S f Mr S T 1 Whitaker has been si von much well deserved praise for his artistic arrangement of the Utah fruit display Mr Whltaker very Justly awards due credits lo his aids Mr F J 1 Ilcndershott and his charming dauGhter Miss Evelyne Ilcndcrshott of Ogden Mr Tlcndurshott represented the general board of control In the management of all exhibits In the horticultural 1 hall Being an horticulturist and florist his Ideas and suggestions wore of Inestimable aluo In the placing of the articles so as to produce the best effect Not only In this capacity but In a hundred hun-dred different ways Mr Hen crsholl anticipated an-ticipated the wants of all exhibitors and many visitors emphatically proving that he was the right man In the right place Atlas JSvclyne Ilcndcrshott I Inherits her superb su-perb taste for decorative work both parents being 1 florists and lovers of the beautiful The work of Mls i TCvclyne was not confined to the details of decorating I the fruit display but she also had entire charge of the extensive decorative work I throughout the horticultural and r due arts hall Jn this difficult task Mlss ITcnder I shott showed true artistic tosle und ability i abili-ty to execute An exhibition of Utah fruits would be Incomplete without the magnificent dint tilay that Messrs John L and Andrew Wilson alwayt provide The collection of fruit by Wilson Bros this year Is I or the 1 excellence that always makes Salt Lake county shiver when It Is at the State fair and to snub with dullghl when Wilson IJros arc absent The collection was complete com-plete and most tastefully arranged consisting con-sisting of eight varieties or poaches all commercial sorts sixteen varieties of nil mans and prunes twelve varieties oC poarn nine varieties of chrirlea eleven varieties of winter apples nlno varieties of gropes and a complete showing of tll vegetables of the t sensonOno verv moinl neal feature of the exhibit witH some sundrlcd apricots and plums prnpuvd und packed by two little daughters of Mr Wilson bolh under 12 I years of age The dried frull was packed In the Jest of eommerelal stylo and will compare favorably with the finest Impoited packages pack-ages The fact that the Messrs Wilson supply their large trade with fruit practically prac-tically 03 fine as they put upon exhibi Hon inns enabled the firm lo become us popular as any commercial orclumllsis In Utah Mr 15 II Bower member of the State TJonrd of Horticulture for the Provo dla trlct rolled uj hit alecven and spat upon his hands no to speak and got nut after tho fruit he wanted to show In the Utah collecting I Not only did Mr loner select tho fruit on the trees but he picked packed and shipped It to Ogden and there t he named und displayed I H I t without at t tempting to palm oft any wormy apples or ears > Without questioning the wisdom of Line committee oC iwnrvlx on fruIt the im prcsblon that size counts for more than t quality In judging fruit gained ifionnd at the show Nothing could contribute moro to this Impression than the passing by of the most excellent exhibit of grsipos made by Jlon Thomas ludd of St George Ilah to give both first and second prlu to other exhibitors It I Is no disparagement of Ilu I winning exhibits < i any that the collection from St Goorge was admired by real experts 10 to J moro than any other The correct naming of the seen teen varieties showed all I the must highly prized grapes uso < l for wince nnd raisins aa well us the commercial I aovls common on the local market Tho exhibit cover trig one entire side of Limo central i pavilion In Ian t Lluh section was garnlnhed with Dixie figs rounds and pnmeirraimies forming a picture of exquisite beauty The display semis tho iviiy Ronnie of Mi I i Judds ability acquired through man years of similar exjierlonces It I Is refresnlng enlightening to meet rind converse upon fruit mat era with Col Ilenrv C Dotiuli of Oregon Col Dobch was for many years secretary of the Oregon Ore-gon State Board of Horticulture nnil In JIlt official capacity vas one of the great forces that wrought for butter things and greater progress In fruit growing Himself Him-self a practical und HucucHijfiil fruit grower he stood for orchard disinfection In the strictest seiice and his influence and efforts ha en told upon tho horticulture horticul-ture of his Stale Col Uosch Is horticultural horticul-tural commissioner for Oregon at the St Louis exposition That the Slates Interests Inter-ests will i be full high advanced at St Loulu the Oregonlnns well know for Col Dosch has acted creditably In a similar capacity at the Chicago exposition In 1SDI at Omtiba In 1SOS at Buffalo In 1801 at Charleston In 102 and la at present Ore gona commissioner to the Industrial ex jOHllIon In Tapiui from which countrv he has very recently returned II It IB I unfortunate Indeed that the con tribution of applosi forwarded to Ogilcn by Mr L ircmmenway of Grander Salt Lake county was lost and could not be found Olr Hcinxncmvay Is one of Utahn very best applegrower and his dhisTiIa3 would have rubbed every other competitor for first place I II Tho PnVcttc Ida people i have reason to lie justly proud of the very able and fnerKftlc men comprhilntr their delegation In ChUtlf of the winning fruit display While llu t I y In common with every other Jdnhoan ware exhuberant and Joyful at their success each one refrainitl from gloating over or taunting Utah for her I failure The delegates wore Gentlemen every one 1 A WRIGHT |