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is lit at night to show that something imiisual is going ou 

 within, The interior is also tastefully decorated with ever- 

 greens, and well-selected chromo pictures add not a little to 

 the beauty of the scene. Long tables around the walls and in 

 other places, judiciously arranged, are laden with fruits of 

 every description placed on exhibition. In the center of the 

 room, Morton, the florist, has erected a splendid pyramid of 

 gay flowers and plants of a variegated foliage, while Leckenby 

 & Laird and J. W. Turner, also Richmond florists, have beau- 

 tified the west end of the hall in like manner with flowers 

 carefully selected and tastefully arranged. These all combine 

 to make the spectacle as the visitor enters the hall one of rare 

 beauty. 



THE EXHIBITIOJf. 



Without further introductory or descriptive remarks, we 

 proceed to note the features of the exhibition most worthy of 

 mention, classifying the collections according to the States 

 which they represent. 



NEW YORK. 



EUwanger & Barry of the Mount Hope Nursery, liochester, 

 N. Y., display 150 varieties of superior apples. 



Smith, Clark & Powell of Syracuse contribute a good assort- 

 ment of pears, which arrived last evening. 



MARYLAND. 



W. D. Brackinridge of Govanstown, near Baltimore, is the 

 only exhibitor from this State. He sends a pretty assortment 

 of pears, embracing forty varieties. 



IOWA. 



Iowa, we think, takes the lead in the apple department. 

 She has two exhibitors, — Mark Miller, editor of the Des Moines 

 Westerti Pomologist, and H. Leonard of Burlington, Iowa- 

 Mr. Miller has 118 varieties of apples, scientifically classified. 

 They were raised in the vicinity of Des Moines, where 33 

 years ago there was not an apple tree of any kind whatever. 



