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apple trees seldom stopped n\) the tiles. Professor Townsend said be 

 had proved, by experience, that barley on drainage land produced 

 twice the crop as on other land. The tilage had cost him $22.50 per 

 acre. 



THE EXHIBITION AT THE TABERNACLE. 



The exhibition in connection with the Horticultural Society con- 

 vention opened Wednesday noon and attracted hundreds of visitors 

 during- the day. The plants, tiowers and fruits placed on long tables 

 in the old tabernacle took away much of the gloom of the large hall 

 and transformed it into a beautiful retreat. Messrs. Kendall and Rob- 

 erts, who arranged the exhibit, did themselves proud. Strings of ever- 

 green were festooned along the walls and balconies, and the large 

 stage was transformed into a conservatory tilled with hot house plants. 

 Nearly 200 exhibits were received at noon, and during the afternoon 

 many more were placed in the hall. Upon the stage Edwin Geering, 

 the gardener for Mr. J. H. Wade, had filled the center with fifty vari- 

 ties of plants that had been gathered from all corners of the earth, 

 many of them being very rare. David Charlesworth, the Sibley street 

 florist, also exhibited fifty plants and choice ferns of the finest 

 kind in competition with ]Mr. Wade's contribution. In floral de- 

 signs there were two entries. Mrs. Ella Grant Campbell, of the 

 Jennings avenue greenhouses, showed a dainty white parasol of 

 carnations with a lining of bright scarlet Lady Emmas. The exterior 

 was decorated with a drapery of La France roses, and auratum and 

 candidum lilies softened by a spray of delicate ferns. The whole 

 was supported by a stand of tropical ferns. The other entry was by 

 J. M. Gasser, of No. 71 Euclid avenue, who exhibited a large fish made 

 of vineas, lying upon a huge platter of white carnations. The green 

 fish and white platter were relieved by a spray of choice roses, the 

 whole being a work of art. Mrs. Campbell had a fine exhibit in the de- 

 partment of cut flowers, showing a lot of pansies, rare varieties of the 

 annual i)hlox and one hundred other choice plants and flowers. Peter 

 Harkey, of Holmden avenue, had an'exhibition of all classes of astors 

 and geraniums. Thorpe, the New York florist, had a collection of 

 about seventy five varieties of gladiolas, which were in competition 

 with gladiolas entered by Mr. Sked of Cleveland. 



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