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tive as the Wisconsin display close beside it. 

 But on closer examination our display had 

 the far greater quality and value. While 

 the Wisconsin exhibit was largely made up 

 of such showy apples as McMahan's White, 

 Wolf River, Alexa-nder, Wealthy, Falla- 

 water, and Maiden's Blush ; the Northern 

 Spy, Baldwin, Ben Davis, King-, Russet, 

 and several of the pippins, entered largely 

 into the Canadian display. In pears, dur- 

 ing my visit, there was no state exhibit bet- 

 ter up than the Canadian ; and this might 

 likewise be said of grapes and plums. In 

 peaches, while Ontario made a very credi- 

 table display, and one sufficient to create 

 considerable wonderment among American 

 and foreign visitors, Michigan, with her ex- 

 tra display of this luscious fruit, of course 

 carried off the palm. 



It was quite natural that Ontario sur- 

 passed all the States in apples of long keep- 

 ing quality ; and the cold storage exhibit, 

 then in September, still sound and fresh, 

 was a striking object lesson to the visitor in 

 proof of this fact. I noticed that all the 

 western States ran to showy apples such as 

 I have named above, while New York State 

 alone crowded Ontario closely in fruit of 

 real solid quality. 



I cannot leave this subject without a word 

 of commendation to Mr. Bunting for his 

 management of the Canadian fruit exhibit, 

 ind a word of congratulation as well for the 

 success he had made in attracting attention 

 to it. No Canadian fruit-grower could be 

 otherwise than pleased with the manner in 

 which the fruit interests of his country were 

 presented at the great continental Exposi- 

 tion. And how can I close without a word 

 for our old friend Mr. H. H. Groff ? Truly 

 his display of g^ladioli in the wing of the 

 horticultural building was the admiration of 

 everybody. Even a visitor from Bermuda 

 remarked that he had not seen anything like 

 it before in the world. " Where is Simcoe," 

 one lady from the South asked, and when 



told that it was up in Canada she exclaimed 

 " What ! did all this lot come from that 

 country?" It is but a mild compliment to 

 Mr. Groff to assure him that he scored a 

 greater triumph in the expressions of ad- 

 miration that his magnificent gladioli dis- 

 play drew from the thousands of visitors 

 who stopped to look with delight upon it 

 than in the thirteen prizes and medals he 

 captured out of the total fifteen offered. 

 Ten thousand spikes of gladioli in constant 

 display for six weeks is a sight no other 

 man could have given to the world save Mr. 

 Groff. 



Mitchell. T. H. Race. 



AN ATTRACTIVE FRUIT DISPLAY. 



It was naturally expected that Canada 

 would make a good showing in live stock 

 and dairy produce at Buffalo. Live stock 

 and dairying are well established industries 

 in this country, and even our American 

 friends have begun to learn something of 

 what Canada can do along this line. 



But fruit production is a comparatively 

 a new thing. It is only within the last 

 quarter of a century that apples have been 

 pioduced in any considerable quantity in 

 this country, while peach-growing and vine- 

 yards, on a commercial basis, are a matter 

 of yesterday. Still this Province alone has 

 made an exhibit at Buffalo, in everything 

 except the tropical fruits, which has equalled 

 that made by the best of the States across 

 the line. As Mr. Norris, master of the New 

 York State Grange, said last week (and he 

 kept well within the limits of truth in doing 

 so), " Ontario does not take much of a back 

 seat from any of them." 



Mr. Norris' statement is well sustained 

 by the preliminary list of Exposition awards 

 published last week. This list shows that 

 the Province obtains no less than nine 

 awards on fruit — one gold medal, three sil- 

 ver medals, the same number of bronze 

 medals, and two "honorable mentions." 



