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specimens. All these are arranged very artisticall}- and kept in excellent 

 condition. 



It was here that our good old friend and lover of horticulture, Parker 

 Earle, presided over the Department of Horticulture in the most able and 

 affable manner, during- the entire winter, while the exhibits were being 

 made and judged. The corner where we had our off'ices is now a bower 

 of plants. The place where the memorable contest between the citrus 

 fruits of Florida and California was held is all quiet now, not even a 

 smell of the oranges, lemons, limes, pomelos and kumquats remaining. 

 In another familiar place where the apples of Arkansas, Oolorado, Min- 

 nesota and Kansas were shown to such good effect and so surprisingly 

 to nearly all the horticultural world, a quiet display of rare plants and 

 tropical trees is now seen. 



It was here that our good friend, Dr. B. T. Galloway, now chief of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry at Washington, got his modest start in the 

 public service, potting plants and picking the decayed fruit from the 

 tables. How well I remember the spot where my dear old friend, Peffer 

 of Wisconsin, made a remark to me that led me to think of the origin 

 and organization of the Division of Pomology in the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture; and it w^as from this exposition that I went h'ome to 

 Kansas by way of St. Louis, where I met Commissioner Norman J. Col- 

 nan, recently placed in office at Washington, and there, in the office of 

 the Rural World, spoke to him of the establishment of that division of the 

 government work, which he afterwards carried into effect. 



Here many of us fruit lovers met one another for the first time, or 

 renewed acquaintance and deepened our respect and love for each other. 



We entered into friendly competition with our fruits. We discussed 

 varieties, and tested them. In a larger building on the grounds we held 

 a delightful and instructive meeting of the American Horticultural So- 

 ciety. 



But there is a minor strain echoes through the memory. Where are 

 all those who met in this beautiful building that is now the only relic of 

 the exposition ? Some are with us yet, busy in life's horticultural work. 

 Parker Earle is at Roswell, New Mexico, planting orchards ; W. H. 

 Ragan is at Washington, D. C, working on the government fruit list : 

 J. C. Evans and L. A. Goodman are at Kansas City, Mo. But manv left 

 us, among whom are Geo. P. Peffer, J. M. Smith and J. C. Plum of Wis- 

 consin ; N. Ohmer and Geo. W. Campbell of Ohio: Samuel Barnard of 

 Nebraska ; Dr. Shaw of Colorado ; J. Guy Lewis of Arkansas ; Prof. 

 Geo. Husmann and W. H. Jessup of California ; P. M. Augur of Con- 

 necticut ; Dr. H. E. McKay and W. H. Cassell of Mississippi ; O. P. 

 Rooks of Florida ; T. T. Lyon of Michigan ; A. J. Cay wood of New York ; 



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