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Among all the State exhibits of fruits, Wisconsin, perhaps, embraced the 

 (largest number of varieties of apples. Many of these varieties are new seed- ' 

 lings, originated in that State. Some of them are already named and, to a 

 limited extent, disseminated, and are rapidly gaining in popularity, espe- 

 cially in the colder regions of our country. They are chiefly of the Russian 

 strain, or crabs and their hybrids and crosses. 



THE PLANT DISPLAY. 



Aside from the orchid and cacti exhibits, which were very large and in- 

 teresting, the chief feature of the plant show consisted of large and well- 

 grown specimens of plants and trees of economic value. These were chiefly 

 froin Mexico, Central America, Jamaica, Florida and California, and em- 

 braced bearing trees of the cocoanut, coffee, date, tea, banana, India rubber, 

 nutmeg, cinnamon, cinchona, camphor, vanilla, pine-apple, cochineal cactus, 

 etc. In the California collection were to be found a large group of Australian 

 trees and plants, many of which were strange and interesting in their habits. 

 Here were several species of eucalyptus, including the celebrated blue gum 

 tree, also a number of different acacias, some of which, when young, have 

 beautiful pinnated foliage, but as they become older they lose this, and take 

 to themselves foliage of a vei'y different character. There was a number of 

 palms of diflerent species, including the cocoanut, date and royal, of large 

 «ize, from twenty to thirty feet in height ; also two large cactus plants from 

 Arizona. These were conspicuous objects in the hall and a source of great 

 interest to visitors. Later in the season the gaudy display of azaleas and the 

 strange colorings and grotesque forms of orchids, within the hall, formed 

 centers of attraction and interest, while outside the rhododendrons, roses, 

 bulbs and pansies were sparkling gems of admiration. 



The following is a complete list of premium awards which has been kindly 

 furnished by Hon. Parker Earle, late Chief of the Department of Horticul- 

 ture in the World's Exposition, and President of the American Horticultural 

 Society. This list has not been (and probably will not be) published else- 

 where, so that its publication here will constitute the only official record of 

 awards in this, the ajreatest known horticultural exhibition. Secretary. 



A LIST OF AWARDS 



Made in the Department of Horticulture of the World'a Exposition <it Nev Orleans, 



in the Winter and Spring of 1885. 



The following gentlemen all gave valuable service as judges of this depart- 

 ment, several of them giving a number of weeks of exacting labor to the ex- 

 amination of the very extensive and varied exhibits, which aggregated over 

 ififty thousand dishes of fruit and many acres of plants and trees: 



