'pie (anadian Ijorticolrorist 



JULY, 1904 



Volume XXVII 



worn 



Number 7 



CANADA AT THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION 



T. H. RACE, OF THE STAFF OF THE CANADIAN FRUIT COMMISSIONER. 



THIS is truly a World's fair. The 

 average American's idea of things is 

 bigness, and that idea is carried out here in 

 St. Louis to almost an extravagant degree. 

 Magnitude seems to have been the end aimed 

 at in the planning and execution of every- 

 thing, and now the almost universal verdict 

 is that the w'hole tning is too big. 



The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous 

 palaces, the stupendous temples are planned 

 and executed on such a magnificent scale 

 that it may truly be claimed the world has 

 never beheld the like before. But they 

 cover too much ground, and one loses too 

 much time and energy in getting from one 

 to the other. 



But all that aside, the readers of The 

 Horticulturist will want to know where, 

 amid all this magnitude and splendor, Can- 

 ada comes in. In the common phraseology 

 of the day, let me assure them that Canada 

 is fully and emphatically "in it." No 

 country or state is more so. And let me 

 observe just here that nothing less than 

 Canada has done would have sufficed to give 

 that effect required at the present time. The 

 name of Canada, and I might say the fame 

 of Canada, has penetrated every quarter of 

 the United States during the past two years, 

 and every citizen of the United States has 

 heard what is called here " the Canadian 

 boom." What Canada is doing here at this 



great exposition is practically substantiating 

 all that has been heard of her boundless re- 

 sources and the marvellous variety of her 

 products. " These exhibits," said a promi- 

 nent Cincinnati man, " tell us more than we 

 have ever 'heard about Canada, and we can 

 no longer doubt." 



The majority of Americans were willing 

 to believe that Canada could produce grain, 

 live stock and agricultural products in al- 

 most unlimited variety, but they were 

 scarcely prepared to believe that she could 

 produce such a variety of fruits. " Does all 

 this fruit grow in that cold country?" is the 

 question that we have to meet continuously. 

 That we are meeting and answering the 

 question convincingly, may be gathered from 

 the remarks that one hears on the streets, in 

 the public places, and even from the pulpits 

 sometimes, when the features of the fair 

 come under observation. 



SOMETHING ABOUT OUR EXHIBITS. 



Of the Canadian exhibits in the mining, 

 agricultural and other departments I will 

 merely say that they are attracting wide at- 

 tention and provoking much favorable com- 

 ment. The horticultural building, general- 

 ly speaking, comes last on the list, and the 

 visitor has seen pretty nearly everything be- 

 fore he comes to the fruit. We have the 

 advantage, therefore, in getting the impres- 

 sion that he has alreadv formed of Canada 



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