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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



of Jan. 17th, from heart failure, the result of 

 over-exertion. He was born in Grenvile 

 County in 1834, was twenty-five years head 

 master of the Iroquois High School, and 

 for several years classical master of the 

 Morrisburg- Collegiate Institute. He had 

 been publishing the St. Lawrence News for 

 about four years. 



Rev. Robt. Hamilton, of Grenville, Que., 

 of the Horticultural staff of the Paris and 

 Glasgow exhibitions, called at our office a 

 few days ago. He states that the Glasgow 

 Exhibition was a financial success ; the ex- 

 penditure was limited to exhibits and very 

 little spent on exterior show. No doubt the 

 immense sums spent on ornamentation of 

 the exterior of the buildings and of the 

 grounds at the Pan-American was the secret 

 of its financial failure. 



The Great World's Exposition at St. Louis 

 in 1903. — On the 20th of December last, the 

 first spadeful of earth was lifted by Presi- 

 dent Francis, and deposited in a wagon 

 drawn by four white horses ; and this was 

 made the occasion of several most enthusi- 

 astic addresses. It is expected that the 

 United States Government will spend at 

 least one and a half millions upon its exhibit, 

 which will be much in excess of that spent 

 upon its exhibit at the Chicago Exposition. 



Pomology.— Prof. F. A. Waugh, of Ver- 

 mont, criticises Prof. Bailey's statement that 

 Fruit Growing and Pomology are synony- 

 mous terms, because the latter is a science, 

 the former an art. Pomology is the study 

 of fruits and their characteristics, and of the 

 trees and their habits, and a systematic pur- 

 suit of it, in his opinion, receives altogether 

 too little attention these days. " In partic- 

 ular." he says, " I think attention needs to 

 be called to the lack of recent work in des- 

 criptive pomology. The other day I re- 

 ceived a report from a leading horticultural 



society, sustained by a great state on the 

 other side of the Mississipi river. In this 

 report there were given a large number of 

 descriptions of varieties of fruits. The 

 great majority of those descriptions were 

 taken bodily from Downing's " Fruits and 

 Fruit Trees." Think of it ! Those descrip- 

 tions were written fifty years ago or more, 

 from specimens picked in the Eastern or 

 New England States, and yet they are the 

 only ones which an enterprising secretary of 

 a strong horticultural society can find when 

 he goes pirating about for the wherewithal 

 to make up his reports. In this same report 

 there was hardly an original description 

 given." 



The ** Fruits of Ontario," a work under- 

 taken under the direction of the Board of 

 Control of our Fruit Stations may be slow 

 of progress, but fortunately will escape this 

 severe censure. One merit, at least, it will 

 possess, that it describes fruit and fruit 

 trees as they grow in Ontario and not as 

 Downing found them in some distant sec- 

 tion of North America, fifty years ago. 



New Buildings at the Industrial are now- 

 assured, since a by-law has been passed by 

 the citizens of Toronto granting $133,000 

 for new buildings. This will make the 

 Industrial Fair of still greater importance to 

 the province, and we should see to it that 

 better provision be included for our fruit 

 exhibits. We have two representatives on 

 the Board, viz., Mr. A. H. Pettit and Mr. 

 W. E. Wellington, and no doubt that they 

 will see that our interests are not neerlected. 



The British Apple Market in 1901 has given 

 satisfactory returns to shippers, though not 

 equalling the extravagant expectations of 

 those who judged the world's crop by the 

 shortness of that in their own immediate 

 locality. 



The imports to Liverpool to Dec. 31st, 

 1901 amounted to 252,000 barrels, just about 



