PAN-AMERICAN HORTICULTURE— V. 



IR, — Before this number of the Hor- 

 ticulturist will reach the hands of 

 iv^^ 11 your subscribers, the Pan-American 

 ^^'' Exhibition will have passed the last 

 milestone of its existence, and to a great 

 extent will have become a memory. As a 

 representative collection of the achievements 

 of the Americas in Science, Art and the 

 various industries, which have been here 

 displayed, it will live forever in the thoughts 

 and memories of those who have been priv- 

 ileged to enjoy its beauties. It will also, I 

 am sure, have a very potent influence upon 

 the minds and hearts of the many thousands 

 who have visited the grounds and buildings 

 during the past summer, in giving a strong 

 impetus to the love of the beautiful and 

 artistic, and, 1 believe, that the influence 

 will come with greater force to no class of 

 people than to those who are engaged in 

 cultivating the soil in the neighboring repub- 

 lic and in this Canada of ours. Inasmuch 

 as our Canadian people have visited the 

 Exposition in vast numbers and have re- 

 peatedly done so, there is no doubt thoughts 

 and ideas have been carried away in connec- 

 tion with the improvement of home sur- 

 roundings in our rural sections, and a 

 longing to reproduce in a modified way, 

 around home and farm, some of the beauti- 

 ful eff"ects that have been seen and admired. 

 This will result in more careful selection, 

 more thorough cultivation, and a greater 

 attention to the small details of landscape 

 improvement and adornment, and thus we 

 will see on every side steps taken in advance 

 that will be of exceeding value to every sec- 

 tion of our country. 



I, however, Mr. Editor, started out not 

 so much to give your readers a dissertation 

 on the general result of the Exhibition as a 

 whole, as to send you a few jottings having 



reference to the Horticultural features, more 

 particularly of our own exhibit. Ever since 

 the meeting of the American Pomological 

 Society, on the 12th and 13th of September 

 last, the fruit exhibits have been at their 

 best, and from day to day a magnificent 

 collection of the fruits indigenous to the 

 United States and Canada has been main- 

 tained. In this friendly competition, thanks 

 to the hearty co-operation of so many fruit 

 growers from all over the Province, I am 

 glad to be able to say that we have had no 

 particular cause to be ashamed of our dis- 

 play. As the awards in our Department for 

 fruits at this writing have not been finally 

 determined, it will be premature on my part 

 to go into particulars ; I might, however, 

 say that so far, we have obtained one gold 

 medal, three silver, three Wilder silver, four 

 bronze and two awards of honorable men- 

 tion upon our preliminary entries, and I 

 trust that these awards are but a harbinger 

 of what is to follow. In the brief space at 

 my command it will not be possible for me 

 to mention more than a very few of the 

 principal exhibitors during the past month 

 In apples, Messrs. W. H. Dempsey, Trenton; 

 Harry Dempsey, Rednorsville ; R. L. Hug- 

 gard, Whitby ; Francis Peck, Albury ; R. J. 

 Graham, Belleville; Harold Jones, Mait- 

 land ; Prof. Macoun, Central Experimental 

 Farm, Ottawa ; Wm. Rickard, Newcastle ; 

 Thomas C. Hagaman, Oakville ; J. Pritch- 

 ard, Harriston ; C. L. Stephens, Orillia, 

 and many others, have furnished as fine 

 specimens as it would be possible to procure 

 even in a season of full crops of this stand- 

 ard fruit. From the Queenston, St. Cath- 

 arines, Fonthill, Niagara, Brantford, Grimsby 

 and Essex districts, through many constant 

 contributors, we have had an excellent sup- 

 ply of peaches from day to day, and I can 



