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the least degree. Each specimen should be wrapped in three or four successive 

 sheets of soft paper. Great care should be used to prevent the breakage of stems. 

 All the specimens of a variety should then be placed in a tough paper sack, with 

 suflicient packing about specimens to fill out the sack and prevent the possibility 

 of bruising. Mark the sack plainly with the name of the variety in ink ; then 

 pack the sacks containing the varieties belonging to a given exhibit together in a 

 box or barrel, which should be well ventilated. Keep the more perishable kinds 

 together in same packages, as far as possible. Then attach to both heads of the 

 barrel, or both ends of the box and to the top, gummed labels, which will be fur- 

 nished by the Chief of this Department upon application, and fill out the blanks 

 thereon with the name and residence of the exhibitor, the kind of fruit and the 

 numl>er of varieties, and the names of varieties so far as possible, contained in the 

 package. 



If intended for cold storage in New Orleans, ship immediately to the Director 

 General, prepaying freight or express through to New Orleans. Arrangements 

 will hereafter be perfected for reduced rates of freight to exhibitors, of which due 

 information will be given. 



Exhibitors should immediately advise the Chief of the Department of what 

 shipments have been made, when made, and bow made, and of the numbers of the 

 premiums to be entered for. Exhibitors should, when practicable, attend the ex- 

 hibition, and open and arrange their own fruits; but when this can not be done, 

 the Chief of the Department should be advised, and he will have the exhibits 

 properly placed. No charge will be made to exhibitors for cold storage in New 

 Orleans. 



The New Orleans Refrigeration Company have placed apartments at the com- 

 mand of this Department, where an even temperature of about 35°, and a dry air, 

 will hold fruit well without much change; but it will decay soon when taken out, 

 and it is not desirable to place varieties which will keep well at home in this 

 storage. The time for special displays of particular fruits, if any be decided 

 upon, will be hereafter announced. 



Belleville: that the readier will be interested in a detailed description of the 

 great IlortievUtural Hall, we republish from the New Orleans Times-Dcvwcrat 

 of a late date, the following: 



A CRYSTAL rAL,\('E THAT IS THE LAR(;EST STRUCTURE DEVOTED TO HORTICUL- 

 TURE IN AMERICA. 



As was announced in the Times- Democrat two or three days ago, the building 

 committee from the Board of Management of the World's Industrial and Cotton 

 Centennial Exposition selecteil the design for the Horticultural Hall submitted by 

 Mr. Arthur E. Rendle of New York. Under the provisions of the ordinance passed 

 l>y the city council, granting the use of the Upper City Park for the exposition, this 

 )>uilding is to be permanent in its structure; so the committee, in making the se- 

 lection from the plans subniitteil, had to satisfy an element — that of durability — not 

 cfinsidered in the designs for the main iiuibling. The i)lan chosen seems to em- 

 brace all the necessary conditions — adaj)tability, beauty and durability — and the 

 buibling, when completed, will be a striking and long-needed ornament to the city. 



