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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



ity Building the same. The Main Govern- 

 ment Building is 600 x 130 feet, with a dome 

 250 feet above the main floor. The lesser 

 buildings of the group are each 150 feet 

 square, connected with the main structure 

 by curved arcades, the three structures en- 

 closing a semi-circular court which opens to 

 the west. The Ethnology Building and the 

 Temple of Music are each to be about 150 

 feet square. The Stadium, or sportihg 

 arena, with the ornamental buildings which 

 forms the entrance, will cover about 10 acres. 

 It will have a seating capacity of 25,000 

 people, and will contain a quarter-mile track 

 and abundant room for all the modern 

 athletic contests. The live stock display 

 will cover about 10 acres, and to the " Mid- 

 way," or pleasure ground, about 20 acres 

 have been allotted. 



The Electric Tower, which is to stand in 

 a broad aquatic basin, will be 348 feet high, 

 the main portion of the tower being 80 feet 



square. The position of the tower is between 

 the Agricultural and Electrical Buildings, 

 dividing the Court of the Fountains from the 

 Plaza, and it will be the centerpiece of the 

 Exposition. It is intended to have the 

 electric displays the most elaborate ever 

 undertaken. The nearness of Niagara Falls 

 makes this possible, on account of the un- 

 limited power developed from the great 

 cataracts and transmitted to Buffalo by 

 means of large copper cables. It is expected 

 that between five and six million dollars will 

 have been expended on the Exposition build- 

 ings and grounds before the installation of 

 exhibits begins. The work of preparing for 

 this great, AU-American display is proceed- 

 ing with commendable speed and system, 

 and the plans are such that it will be com- 

 pleted in ample time for the opening of the 

 gates on the date announced. 



Mark Bennitt. 



The Bosc pear is rather gaining in favor, 

 especially as a shipper. A writer in the 

 California Fruit Growers' Journal says of it : 

 The Bosc pear will never be a glut in the 

 market, for the reason that the tree grows 

 so crooked and slowly that nurserymen will 

 not grow it. Those who buy trees, says 

 Edwin Hoyt in Rural New Yorker, do not 

 understand that there is as much difference 

 in the habit of growth in trees as there is in 

 animals, and are not willing to pay any 

 more for one tree than another of the same 

 species. If a nurseryman were to bud 

 1,000 stocks to Bartlett he would, no 

 doubt, get 900 good trees, while if 1,000 

 stocks were budded to Bosc, he might not 

 get more than 100 good salable trees, and 

 many of these might have to be staked 

 while growing to get the body up straight 

 so as to make a tree a customer would 



receive if sent to him. Many nurserymen 

 grow a few Bosc by top-working them, that 

 is, by budding the Bosc in the top of some 

 strong-growing variety like Clapp, Buffum 

 Anjou. To raise the trees this way, the 

 nurseryman has to charge more for them to 

 pay him for his extra trouble. If one wishes 

 to obtain a Bosc pear orchard, the best way 

 to get it is to set Clapp or some strong- 

 growing variety. Let it grow two years, 

 then top-graft it. This, of course, is some 

 trouble and expense to do, yet the one who 

 does it will get a good paying pear orchard, 

 for this variety will never be overproduced. 

 It is a fine pear, a heavy bearer, and usually 

 grows smooth and fair with good feeding 

 and cultivation, such as any orchard should 

 have for profit." Our plan at Maplehurst 

 is to grow KeifTer as stocks and top-graft 

 them with Bosc. 



