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THi; WORLDS FAIR. 



IK readers will have noticed, in our January number, some 

 reference to the important exhibit of Canadian fruits which 

 is proposed to be made at the great World's Fair of 1893, 

 in the City of Chicago. That both the Provincial and 

 Dominion (lovernments will heartily endorse the accom- 

 plishment of so worthy an object and make liberal grants, 

 such as will be necessary, is quite evident : and it is to the 

 Ontario Fruit Growers' Association that the authorities wiH 

 look for a collection of Ontario fruit for this exhitition. 

 The great point of importance before us in Ontario is, to see to it that every 

 fruit grower in the province is prepared to do his part. Nor is it too early to 

 consider this matter, for we must begin with the opening of the present spring 

 to give the most careful cultivation and fertilizing to those trees and plants from 

 which we expect to gather the fruits for such an important exhibit. Then, the 

 fruits on these must be most carefully thinned so as to produce the large size 

 and high color, which should characterize the perfect specimens selected. 



There is another reason why it is necessary to consider at once the careful 

 preparations for this great exhibit. The Fair opens in the month of May, before 

 any of our northern fruits have ripened. What can we do at that season with 

 three thousand square feet of space which we have asked for to accommodate 

 the exhibit of fruits from Ontario, unless we have a large collection of our finest 

 fruits, both large and small, put up in glass to help fill it up and attract the at- 

 tention of visitors until the arrival of the fresh fruit. A collection of this kind 

 was made at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, under the superintendance of 

 the worthy Director of the experimental farms of Canada ; and the effect is very 

 marked in the attention which has ever since been given us in the Old World. 

 Mr. Saunder-s, who will do everything he can to for^vard the work before us, 

 under the approval of the Minister of Agriculture of the Dominion, has already 

 been making extended experiments with regard to the most approved liquids for 



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