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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[October, 



rapid growth duriug the fall, and by next 

 summer should give many a delicious feast of 

 fine large berries.— iJ. R. Haines, Moorestown, 



THE ATLANTA COTTON EXPOSITION. 



Above we give an accurate view of the 

 World's Fair buildings in Oglethrope Park, 

 Atlanta, Georgia, which was fully described 

 in a recent letter of our Rome correspondent 

 (J. J. S. ) as a structure that will stand as a 

 wonder before the world, embodying as it 

 does features traceable to the similar struc- 

 tures at Sydenham, New York, Philadelphia 

 and Paris, all of which was seen by our cor- 

 respondent. The main building of the expo- 

 sition stands on a depression under the eleva- 

 tion, while the space intervening is laid out 

 in lots and decorated with fountains and 

 flowers, forming a most pleasing and refresh- 

 ing aspect. Beyond, to the left, is a beauti- 

 ful pond or lake, from which the water by 

 which the buildings and grounds are supplied 

 is forced up into a reservoir for distribution. 

 The main building is not gorgeous, but it is 

 substantial, and, while not showing as much 

 glass as the Centennial buildings, is just as 

 well lighted and the interior protected against 

 heat and cold, wliile nothing heavy or cum- 

 bersome offends the eye or obstructs the view. 

 The longest wings form a continuous avenue 

 of 312 feet, the cross wings 144 feet, both 96 

 feet wide; the grand center or transept is 96 

 feet square, provided with a gallery. The 

 whole place, park as well as buildings, will be 

 lighted by electricity. In the latter addition 

 to its other great novelties and attractions the 

 Atlanta Exposition will stand as the greatest 

 achievement of modern times. 



In the centre of the building is located the 

 fountain and other ornamental devices; also 

 four large steam engines, each of which 

 drives the machinery in one wing. Each 

 section for the display of exhibits is lettered; 

 the columns are eight feet apart, from centre 

 to centre, and numbered; the sections next 

 the wails are eighteen feet wide, with an aisle 

 on the side next the wall six feet wide, and 

 the arena next the centre eight feet wide. 

 The central sections are sixteen feet wide, 

 and face the avenue. Double sections will be 

 thirty-two feet wide, and face upon both 

 avenues. 



The exhibition will open on the 5th of Oct. 

 and will continue three months. Its influ- 

 ence upon the industrial development of the 

 South, and in cementing the bonds of unity 

 between the sections, cannot be overrated.— 

 JTew Era. 



r ee known in the country, wet and dry sea- 

 sons alike failing to affect its growth. Its 

 wood is hard, somewhat of the nature of yel- 

 low pine, but firmer and stronger, and fit for 

 use in ship timbers, while in Australia, cabi- 

 netmakers, wheelwrights and carpenters use 

 it throughout their trades. The bark yields 

 a febrifuge second only m efficiency to quinine 



is fit to cut in five or six years. Por the 

 Eastern and Middle States, where tlie lack of 

 forest production is not frequently felt, no 

 tree has been ofiered the culturist that can 

 present so many primary points of vantage 

 as this Australian immigrant, and its general 

 introduction and culture should be a matter 

 of but little time. It may be added the tree 



THE COMING TREE. 

 The eucalyptus, which is being introduced 

 in California, has many qualities which re- 

 commend it to Eastern sylviculturists. It 

 comes originally from Australia, where the 

 tests of various soils and varying seasons have 

 amply demonstrated the good qualities of the 

 tree and its rapid growth even under adverse 

 surroundings. Trials of late years in South- 

 ern Europe have further verified these claims 

 and there is no reason why the tree will not 

 flourish in every section of the United States. 

 It is hardier than the chestnut, and, like the 

 latter, it will grow in the rockiest of soils. It 

 Is more independent of rain-food than any 



but superior in all medical quaUties to cin- 

 chonia. This quality alone must make the 

 tree invaluable, and its culture here, to an ap- 

 preciative extent, would settle forever the 

 vexed question of quinine duties. The ra- 

 pidity of its growth is its most wonderful 

 feature. It grows four times as fast as the 

 American pine, and for all ordinary purposes 



I yields fragrance, but produces no fruit or nut. 

 1 Its strength goes directly into trunk and bark, 

 i Its beauty of form and luxuriant evergreen 

 i foliage are additional qualities that must re- 

 ^ commend it in country or city. 

 ! [We here give the two sides of the Eucalyp- 

 I tus gloiulus and admonish our readers to gov- 

 ern themselves accordingly. To us, the ex- 



