PAN-AMERICAN HORTICULTURE. 



Total entries in all States — 3,661. 



Total awards in all classes 1,206 



Total gold medals given 146 



Total silver medals given 157 



Total bronze medals given 457 



Total honorable mention 446 



COMPARISON' WITH GROUPS OF 

 STATES. 



The following gives, in tabular form, a compari- 

 son of Ontario winnings as compared with the 

 combined winnings of three American States. 



The following gives a similar comparison with 

 three American States. 



Hon. 

 Gold. Silver. Bronze. Mention. 



Illinois 12 5 20 14 



Michigan 5 10 18 26 



Missouri .., 8 2 82 6 



Total . 

 Ontario 



25 

 19 



17 



120 



35 



46 



Another comparison with six good States: 



Florida. . . . 

 Delaware . . . 



Maine 



Wisconsin . . 

 Nebraska . . . 

 New Jersey. 



Gold. 



7 



Hon. 

 Silver. Bronze. Mention. 



Total 19 



Ontario 19 



17 

 2 



13 



68 



35 



13 



3 



14 



3 

 7 



40 

 8^ 



The Windup of the Fruit Exhibit. 



Mr. W. L. Smith of the Sun writes of the 

 grand display by Ontario at the close of the 

 exposition as follows : — 



The Ontario fruit exhibit at Buffalo is being 

 wound up in a blaze of glory. So abundant are 

 the supplies now going forward as a result of vol- 

 untary effort on the part of the contributors, that 

 Superintendent Bunting was last week obliged to 

 arrange for an overflow exhibit, and this is now 

 tastefully displayed about one of the pillars in the 

 principal aisle of the Horticultural building. 



The two most striking features in the principal 

 display made by the Province last week were in 

 the form of two great mounds of apples, one locat- 

 ed at each end of one of Mr. Bunting's tables. 

 One of these mounds was made of Fameuse (Snow.) 

 apples, and the other was composed of Spys — the 

 former having been contributed by R. W. Shep- 

 pard, Montreal, and the latter by Warden Rickard 

 of Durhana and Northumberland, and W. H. 

 Dempsey of Trenton. These mounds caught the 

 eye of everyone who came near, and the artistic 

 arrangement and fine quality of the fruit weie 

 greatly admired. Mr. Sheppard it may be noted 

 in passing, for years sent the late Queen Victoria 

 an annual present of Canadian apples, and this 

 year he has continued the present to King Edward. 

 In commercial matters he makes a specialty of 

 boxes of carefully selected fruit for the Army and 

 Navy Stores in London — selling these boxes at a 



guinea when ordinary packed apples are selling at 

 about $4 the barrel. 



Among the other contributions to the display 

 last week, deser\nng of special mention, were: 

 Some excellent Ben Davis, Baldwins, and Spys 

 sent in by W. H. Chaplin, Newcastle ; some beau- 

 tiful Pewaukees contributed by Geo. L. Bolster, 

 Orillia; Kentish Fillbaskets, forwarded hy R. L. 

 Huggard, Whitby (one of these seemed almost 

 large enough to fill a basket itself); some large, 

 well colored, and perfectly formed Kings sent by 

 James McGregor, Whitby ; fine specimens of Ben 

 Davis and Baldwins from the orchard of James 

 Bell, Whitby ; some St. Lawrence sent in by 

 Harry Dempsey, rivalled the blush of a maiden, 

 and Wolf Rivers that were worthy mates of Mr. 

 Huggard's Fillbaskets ; while J. E. Hambly of 

 Cedar Springs contributed the finest quinces seen 

 in any part of the Horticultural building last weeji. 



Besides all this stock, a lot of the cold storage ap- 

 ples were still on exhibition, some of last year's 

 Ben Davis, after an exposure out of cold storage 

 tor a month, being still as bright and attractive in 

 appearance as this year's fruit. 



Finally, there were shown a collection of sweet 

 potatoes grown by James Titterington, St. Catha- 

 jines. These sweet potatoes, with the peanuts 

 previously referred to, prove that Ontario, besides 

 producing the finest of Northern apples, can equal 

 the southern States in at least some products of a 

 semi-tropical nature. 



With the help of those fruit-growers who came 

 to his assistance from different parts of the Prov- 

 ince, Superintendent Bunting was able to put up a 

 display which puts Ontario ahead of any State 

 which exhibited at Buffalo with the single excep- 

 tion of New York. New York obtained 42 gold, 47 

 silver, and 103 bronze medals, and 173 honorable 

 mentions, or a total of 365, as compared with 19 

 gold. 33 silver, and 35 bronze medals, and 85 hon- 

 orable mentions for Ontario. 



While Ontario obtained 19 gold medals, no State, 

 outside of New York, secured more than 12 of this 

 class: while we obtained 2,Z silver medals, the best 

 of the others, outside of N ew York, secured 1 1 ; in 

 bronze medals we got 35, only three States getting 

 a higher number. In honorable mention we were 

 led by but one State, viz.. New York. 



This can be put in an even more striking form. 

 Ontario took 19 gold medals , as compared with 25 

 taken by the three States of Illinois, Michigan, and 

 Missouri. In silver medals we took 33 to 17 of the 

 same class of medals by these three States. In 

 bronze we had 35 to 120, and in honorable mention 

 85 to 46. Moreover the three States named were 

 on the grounds all the time, and occupied four 

 times as much space as Ontario, while each one 

 spent many times as much money on their exhibit 

 and help as Ontario spent. 



The next comparison is with six good States- 

 Florida, Delaware, Maine, Wisconsin, Nebraska, 

 and New Jersey, All told, these captured exactly 

 the same number of gold medals as Ontario alone 

 secured. In silver medals we outnumbered their 

 combined winnings by nearly two to one. In 

 bronze medals we won more than half the number 

 won by the six, and in honorable mentions we won 

 double the number that they did. 



