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obnoxious regulations changed, which prevent the delivery of even perishable 

 goods except between the hours of eleven at night and eight the next morning. 

 The consequent delays will seriously hinder the project of making a good 

 exhibit of small fruits. 



The Princess Eulalia has received a great ovation in Chicago. From 

 the Women's Building she walked through the Horticultural, passing through 

 Canada's Court, leaning upon the arm of Director General Davis. She is quite 

 fine looking, and seemed much interested in our fruit exhibit. 



Later. — The Nurserymen's Association meeting here on the nth inst., 

 have co-operated in seeking a redress of the Fruit Growers' rights, and now we 

 have every privilege granted us, so that fruits may be delivered to us at all 

 times, without hindrance. It is therefore determined to continue a successive 

 exhibit of fresh fruits and vegetables, as they ripen, right through the season. 

 Some should come from each province and render the display as representative 

 in character as possible. 



The other day a Russian representative passed through our fruit display 

 and asked many questions. His name is Ivan Tanschul, and he is a Professor of 

 Political Economy in the University of Moscow. He seemed much interested 

 in our Horticultural progress, and solicited copies of our Fruit Growers' reports, 

 and those of the Central Experimental Farm. 



Another day Franceso Ingegnoli, of Milano, Italy, called. He is the 

 Secretary of the Italian Horticultural Society, and took careful lists of our more 

 valuable fruits, for trial in Italy. 



The Theory Of Thinning". — We have become familiar with the state- 

 ment that thinning the fruit on over-loaded trees, while it is young, does not 

 materially diminish the number of bushels of fruit, the lessening number of 

 specimens growing large enough to compensate for the difference. The super- 

 ficial observer sees apples on a tree two inches in diameter, and on another four 

 inches, and at once pronounces the larger ones twice the size of the smaller, 

 four being twice the number two ; but he decides hastily, for the cube of the 

 two is only eight, while the cube of four is sixty-four, or eight times that of 

 two. The large fruit is no less than eight times the size of the smaller, and it 

 would require eight times as many specimens of the smaller to fill a barrel. This 

 is of course an extreme case with extreme measures • but similar results will be 

 obtained on a smaller scale. For convenience in multiplying and dividing, 

 reduce the inches to quarters, and it will be found that a globular fruit eight 

 quarters in diameter, will be more than twice the size in cubic measure of one 

 six quarters in diameter. Any number of similar calculations may be made 

 with like results. No wonder then that an orchardist found that his thinned 

 fruit produced more bushels than that from the crowded trees. 



