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Show ( HORTICULTURE THE UTAH HORTICULTURAL EXHIBIT AT COUNCIL BLUFFS. Utah Trophies. I At the section set apart for the ex 1 dibits from the state of UtnJi is a ! display of trophies won by that state, 1 which is dazzling. Ten large cups 1 arc shown, giving an impressive idea of the possibilities of the state. The largest known as the Hearst trophy, was won by the state exhibit at Albuquerque. Albu-querque. It is about four feet high, made of pounded silver, weighs twenty-five pounds, and is veJucd at $3,-000. $3,-000. The cup is filled with Richmond rpses, which blend prettily with the color scheme of green and red which is carried out in the Utah exhibit. One but little smaller and quite as beautiful in design, was awarded" to the state at Sacramento, Cal., at the irrigation congress held there in 1007. It was won- by Utah for excellence ex-cellence of fruits nnd irrigated pro-f" pro-f" ducts. Utah also won at Sacramento t a plate and cup given by Harrison L Grey Otis for tlw best display of wine grapes. A gorgeously decorated decorat-ed cup, known as the sugar 'beet cup, 1 was won by th state oxhibrt five years ago, lost the succeeding your, won again in 1908 and will now remain in Utah. The cup was given by H. O. Havemeycr on behalf of the Amcr-I Amcr-I ican Sugar Refining Company as an award for the best display of sugar beets. A massive silver affair adorned ( with clusters of grapes was won by the best exhibit of canned' fruits from I; a single cannery. i The Anhcuser Busch trophy was I h warded for the best brewing barley. For the best display of products from 1 a single farm irrigated by a pump the huge cup presented by the Joshua Josh-ua Handy Machine Works of San Francisco was won by V. 0. Knud-jon Knud-jon of Brigham City. " Valued at $10,000. The display of trophies is valued at about $10,000 and occupies a prominent promin-ent placa in the Utah "exhibit, which is in charge of J. Edward Taylor, secretary sec-retary of the state board of horticulture; horticul-ture; Prof. E. G. Titus, entomologist from the agricultural experiment station, sta-tion, and Robert S. Northrop, horticulturist horti-culturist from the experiment station. 1 1 Tine Utah display is fenced in with massive green pillars connected by gilt chains, with red and green electric elec-tric globes on each post. A large case of Utah honey is artistically arranged, combs of honey being stacked along tbtf "sides of the tall case to give effect ef-fect of a border, while in glasses and jars the strained honey is shown. The different varieties of nuts raised in Utah arc arranged in glass jars and bottles and cases of dried and cvaj:oratd fruits arc shown in large numbers. Owing to the short time in which the exhibit was gotten together, to-gether, Mr. Northrop stated that the display of apples was limited, only ten varieties out of the many grown there being shown here. Bonners and Hags showing the beehive and done in purple and gold add to the effect of the decorations. Here a register is kept and all visitors to this apartment apart-ment are requested to enter their names. Salt Lake Seconds. J. Edward Taylor, member of the Utah State Board of Horticulture. Salt Lake City, made a short address, in ' which he said that he had had charge of the Utah exhibit ex-hibit at national conventions, of various vari-ous kinds for several years and that with the exhibit he had won trophies to the amount of over $io,ooo' but that he had never been treated ibettcr, nor seen cleaner, better managed expositions ex-positions in all that he had attended. "You should be proud of what you have done here,' said Mr. Taylor. "You have accomplished -m great good and you have been fair with everyone. every-one. I hear good will for Council 15 luffs on every hand among the visitors visi-tors and I want to sec you have the next meeting here." DAILY NONPARIEL. |