232 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Fruits. No. of Varieties. No. of Jars. 



Raspberries 13 50 



Blackberries 4 27 



Apricots 1 4 



Wild fruits and nuts 8 • 24 



Apples in jars in 273 



Crab apples 4 14 



Peaches 20 83 



Plums 56 137 



Pears 75 188 



Grapes 70 1 10 



Quinces. 2 10 



Passing Ontario in the centre aisle, the visitors walk through the fine exhibit 

 of bottled grapes, plums, gooseberries, Russian cherries, etc., by the Central 

 Experimental Farm, prepared by Mr. John Craig, the Horticulturist ; and then 

 through a large show of 400 or more bottles of fine apples, plums, grapes, small 

 fruits, etc., sent by the Province of Quebec. This province also shows some 

 three hundred plates of apples, of the crop of 1892, and about seventy-five 

 varieties ; many of them smaller than the average of Ontario apples, but 

 valuable for their hardiness. Noticeable among them were Scott's Winter, 

 Arabka, Flushing Spitzenburg, Wealthy, Mcintosh Red, Walbridge, Pewaukee,. 

 McMahon, Canada Red, Canada Baldwin, Fameuse, etc. 



Mr. Blachford, B.A., of McGill University, has recently been sent on to 

 assist us in the care of the Quebec exhibit, a young man of excellent ability ; 

 while Mr. Robert Starr, of the Fruit Growers' Association of Nova Scotia, who so 

 ably superintended the setting up of the fruit, has now been succeeded by Mr. 

 John Starr of the same province, who comes as the representative of the 

 Nova Scotia Government. This latter exhibit is also creditable, though a large 

 part of the apples of 1892 were injured by frost in transit and by care'ess 

 re-packing in cold storage. The intention was to have shown one hundred 

 and fifty varieties of apples, and these have now been reduced to eighty. 

 Nova Scotia has one side aisle, excepting a portion occupied by Prince Edward 

 Island's exhibit of fresh and bottled fruit, while the other side aisle is devoted to 

 British Columbia and the North West, of which a fuller account will be given 

 later. 



On the wall at the end of the Court, in large letters, is the words " The 

 Fruits of Canada," a list follows, and the motto " The Apple Belt of North 

 America."' 



It may seem conceited for us to speak of Canada as surpassing the world 

 in any particular, but we feel justified in paying the fair young lady one more 

 compliment. Passing through a wealth of magnificent apples bottled and fresh, 

 from Washington, Missouri, Idaho, Colorado and Oregon, we reach the north 



