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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



pened for the first time with us at Maplehurst, 

 and it impressed us favorably as a dessert 

 peach for the home garden, because of its ten- 

 der, juicy texture and pleasant flavor. It is 

 not a clingf like the Hale, but only a semi- 

 cling, like the Early Purple, which was always 

 a favorite dessert peach, when fresh from 

 the tree. The tree is a fine grower, and 

 quite productive, and evidently an early bear- 

 er, for it produced its first fruit at three years 

 of age. When ripe, the skin and the flesh 

 are both creamy white, wMth a red cheek. 



This peach would be wholly unsuitable 

 for shipping to a distant market, as indeed 

 are nearlv all our earlv varieties. 



The Sneed originated in Tennessee about 

 1880, and was named after the originator, 

 Judge Sneed, of Memphis. It is a seedling 

 of the Chinese cling. 



Lourance, of N. C, wrote in the Rural 

 New Yorker, last year, very favorably of 

 this peach, as follows : " The Sneed is 

 about ten days earlier than .A.msden's June 

 or Alexander ; it is somewhat larger, ripens 

 much better to the pit, is of excellent flavor, 

 juicy and, when fully ripe, the skin readily 

 peels off" with the fingers. It has a large, 

 full bloom, and therefore is not so easily 

 killed by frosts. It is also rather late 

 bloominpf." 



PAN-AMERICAN HORTICULTURE- 



.UR second official visit to this grand 

 exposition \vas made on Dedication 

 Day, the 20th of May. Wonderful 

 changes had taken place in the 

 buildings and grounds in the month since 

 our last visit, for then heads and trunks of 

 statuary lay topsy-turvy and prospective 

 elegance of architecture still revealed bare 

 construction timbers. Now these are all in 

 place and the magnificent, many-colored 

 buildings now blend into one harmonious 

 wh^le, in style a fine representation of the 

 Spanish Renaissance, rich with sculpture 

 and color decoration. One can well believe 

 Mark Bennitt's statement in his " Illustrated 

 Souvenir " that this great enterprise repre- 

 sents a total expenditure of S 10,000,000, not 

 to mention the enormous value of the 

 exhibits themselves. 



Entering by belt line railway from X. Y. C. 

 station, one is ushered through the Propylaea 

 and its wings or colonnades, decorated with 

 beautiful statuary, into the very midst of 

 these magnificent structures ; before you 

 the Electric tower, 410 feet in height, a sort 

 of guide to keep one from being lost, and in 

 front of it the grand esplanade, where 



thousands of people can be seated and watch 

 the electric glory o'i the evening lights, 

 which mark out the outlines of the buildings 

 to people miles away on every side. On the 

 east wing is a group of statuary by 

 H. Adams representing "The Age of 

 Enlightment," expressing the progress of 

 man from the savage to the enlightened 

 state. Another group is " Heroic Music," 

 by Konte, showing the blind bard with the 

 lyre and over him a winged female figure 

 carrying the laurel branch, the whole 

 expressing the conventional idea of heroic 

 music. Cuts of these groups were kindly 

 sent us by Mr. Bennitt, Chief of the Publicity 

 Department. 



We just hint on the general beauty of this 

 marvellous exposition, because it emphasizes 

 the importance of the opportunity here 

 afforded of exhibiting our Canadian indust- 

 ries to the world. More attractive than the 

 World's Fair at Chicago, more convenient 

 of access to Canadians than any great 

 exposition has ever been, there will be more 

 Canadians at the Pan-American than at any 

 former one, and we cannot stir up the 

 national pride of our country in a more 



