AVISCONSIN FEUIT GROWERS ASSOCIATION. 



The Annual Fair of the "Wisconsin Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion, for the year 1857, was held at Janesville, in connection 

 with the Fair of the State Agricultural Society, on the 28th, 

 29th, and 30th of September, and the 1st and 2d of October. 



The Society's large " Floral tent " was appropriated exclusively 

 to the use of the Association. The tent is circular, or, strictly 

 speaking, oval in form, enclosing an area of about one hundred 

 feet in diameter, and three hundred in circumference. The 

 tables arranged for fruit occupied the entire outer rim, or mar- 

 gin, of the tent covered area, except the entrance,, and were 

 three feet in width. 



A flower stand, about thirty feet in length, including semi- 

 circular tables on the north and south, straight tables on the 

 east and west, and raised step-like platforms for flowers above 

 the tables, in outline conforming to the ground plan of the tent, 

 occupied the centre. 



By Wednesday noon the tables designed for fruit were all 

 filled, and additional space required. The circular tables were 

 in part reduced, but not suiSciently to accommodate exhibitors. 

 Two or three large collections, and some smaller ones, of fruit, 

 had to be intruded upon the flower stand tables, where their 

 colors blended in pleasing harmony with the flowers. 



Of the different collections, we write as their comparative mer- 

 its appeared to us, with limited time for making our examination 

 and notes ; often without the aid of exhibitors to explain their 

 tangled nomenclature, and want of time to perform that in 

 nowise easy task, could the whole five days of the fair have 

 been devoted to that single object. 



Most of the exhibitors are doubtless clear of any just impu- 

 tation of blame for the confusion existing at the time of plant- 



