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said it was a favorite cooking- plum. It is 

 grown in the orchard of George Drake of 

 Clarksburg. 



Mr. W. W. Hillborn made a fair showing 

 of varieties of peaches, the most prominent 

 variety being the Champion, an excellent 

 white flesh peach ripening just in advance of 

 Early Crawford. 



Mr. Hillborn also showed a collection of 

 Japan plums, the largest and finest of 

 which was the Wickson, but unfortunately 

 the tree lacks vigor. It seems to be related 

 to Simons plum, judging by the foliage, and 

 is probably short lived. 



Mr. M. Pettit of Winona, showed fifty 

 varieties of grapes, well colored for the 

 beginning of September. 



The most prominent varieties in the col- 

 lection were Berckman, a remarkable fine 

 bunch 8 inches long, that promises consider- 

 able value, and Campbell's Early, named after 

 its originator, Mr. G. W. Campbell of Ohio. 

 It is certainly large and handsome both in 

 berry and bunch, and, ripening along with 

 Moore's Early or slightlyin advance, it should 

 be very profitable. The bunch is close, the 

 berries hold well to the stem, and promise 

 to be good keepers. Mr. Pettit speaks 

 highly of Woodruff Red also, as a market 

 grape; the Lady lacking in vigor, and the 

 Green Mountain being too small in berry. 



Mr. W. H. Dempsey showed about 120 

 varieties of apples, and among them very fine 

 Duchess, Alexander, Kentish Fillbasket and 

 Trenton. He has increasing confidence in 

 the Trenton as a valuable early fall desert 

 apple. It was a seedling raised by the late 

 P. C. Dempsey, his father, who was so long 

 on our Board of Directors. It is of good 



size, covered with deep red, apparently of the 

 Fameuse type, but a cross between Spy and 

 Russet. Its season is October ist. He has 

 planted an orchard of fifty trees of this var- 

 iety. 



Mr. H. Jones of Maitland showed t^t^ var- 

 ieties of apples, and among them the Brock- 

 ville Beauty, a seedling of that section. It 

 is a fine large red apple, of about the season 

 of the Astracan, and he prefers it to that 

 variety. He also showed the Scarlet Pip- 

 pin, a rival of the Mcintosh Red. It is cer- 

 tainly a beautiful dessert apple, and 'de- 

 serves to be universally grown as a fancy 

 export apple. 



Mr. Huggard showed a fine collection 

 from his fruit station at Whitby, and Mr. 

 G. C. Caston from his in Simcoe County. 

 The latter showed in all seventy varieties of 

 fruit. 



This exhibit by our fruit stations was 

 really the most interesting exhibit in the fruit 

 building, and every year it increases in in- 

 terest. Next year we shall require two long 

 tables instead of one, and have made appli- 

 cation for them already. 



The first prize for forty varieties of apples, 

 went to Prince Edward Co., as indeed we 

 might expect, for apples there are not the 

 failure that they are with us in the western 

 sections. For 20 varieties of pears, both 

 the first prize and the silver medal were 

 taken by Hamilton exhibitors, this fruit 

 being an excellent crop all about that part 

 of the Province. 



With the advice of the Dept. of Agricul- 

 ture we have forwarded the whole collection 

 to the Pan American, to compete for the 

 Wilder Medal. 



The First National Exposition of the street, and of the house and room. The 



Modern Decorative Art will be held at American Park and Outdoor Association 



Turin, Italy, from April to November 1902 ; will probably exhibit designs for completed 



comprising the artistic and industrial parks, home grounds and gardens, and 



productions which concern the aesthetics of photographs of the same. 



