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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



safely say that our peach and grape display 

 has attracted a g^reat deal of attention, and 

 has elicited many exclamations of surprise 

 and amazement. Supplies of assorted fruits 

 have been coming in regularly from the 

 Burlington Horticultural Society, sent in by 

 nearly every member, through Mr. W. K. A. 

 Peer, who was appointed collector. In 

 grapes and pears, Messrs. Orr, Pettit, Pay, 

 Stewart, Haynes, (jriffiths, Secord, T. R. 

 Merrit and yourself, Mr. Editor, are only a 

 few out of many who have contributed 

 largely in this respect. We have also had 

 a full and constant supply of cut flowers in 

 season from Messrs. Morris, Stone and 

 Wellington, Fonthill, and our old friend, 

 Roderick Cameron, of Queen Victoria Park, 

 Niagara Falls, adding much to the beauty 

 of our exhibit. In tropical fruits, Mr. 

 Randall, of Niagara-on-the-Lake, has sent 

 us white Genoa figs on several occasions, 

 and our Florida and California neighbors 

 have been astonished by the production in 

 Canada of fine samples of Philodendron or 

 Monstera Deliciosa, a most delicious tropi- 

 cal fruit. 



A full list of the various exhibitors is 

 being prepared, together with whatever 

 awards will have been given, and will appear 

 in due course. It will be my desire that 

 every exhibitor shall receive a copy. As I 

 have already trespassed on your space, I 

 will leave the final summing up of the re- 

 sults until a later issue. 



Buffalo, N. Y., W. H. Bunting. 



Oct. i8th, 1901. 



PAN-AMERICAN NOTES. 



Before these words reach the eye of 

 the reader of the Horticulturist the Pan- 

 American Exhibition will most likely have 

 come to an end. The great buildings, 

 majestic tower, and temples of all the 

 arts, which have been the scenes of 

 busy life and friendly rivalry for the past 

 six months will have become desolate, and 



the busy hands that were eng-aged twelve 

 short months ago in rearing those majestic 

 structures will be again employed in their 

 destruction and defacement. But while de- 

 facements may go on, even to the complete 

 obliteration of those temples of industrial 

 manifestation the memories of competitive 

 triumphs and national honors won will re- 

 main to many of us a proud and pleasing^ 

 recollection. Especially will this latter be 

 the case with the thousands of Canadians 

 who visited the great Exposition and noted 

 with proud satisfaction the honorable posi- 

 tion their country held in all the competitive 

 and industrial departments in which she en- 

 tered. Say what you will of the average 

 Britisher, he is very much of a sentimental- 

 ist as well as a shopkeeper, and when he 

 tastes his roast beef and plum pudding and 

 finds it a trifle better in quality, then his 

 bucolic breast will swell with national pride 

 quite as perceptibly as that of his more de- 

 monstrative neighbor the Frenchman. 



In his patriotic sensibilities the Canadian 

 is more acute than the old-land Britisher, 

 and his national enthusiasm is keener and 

 more manifest. 



It was my privilege to be a visitor at the 

 Pan-American, and also at the meeting of 

 the American Pomological Society held at 

 the Epworth hotel in Buffalo when the 

 Wilder awards for the special fruit exhibits 

 were announced. And when the name of 

 our own province was announced as having 

 w^on a silver medal for a general collection 

 of fruits, another silver medal for a display 

 of grapes, a bronze medal for an exhibit of 

 plums, and still another for a general col- 

 lection ; and this in competition with the 

 great fruit districts of the United States, it 

 is needless to say that the Canadians present 

 let the rest of the meeting know they were 

 there. 



Our own general fruit exhibit in the hor- 

 ticultural building I was especially proud of. 

 At first sig-ht it did not strike one as attrac- 



