SUBSCRIPI'ION PRICE, $1.U0 per year, entitl ng the subscriber to membership ot the Fruit 

 Growers' Association of Ontario and all its pi-ivileges.' iuclud-.ng a copy of its valuable Annual 

 Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees. 



REMITTANCES by Registered Letter are at our risk. Receipts will be acknowledged upon 

 the address label. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



The Exposition Huii.ding.s of the World's Fair will be dedicated with 

 a})propriate ceremonies on October 12th, 1892, the 400th anni\ersary of the 

 discovery of America by Columbus. Some $300,000 are to be spent to make 

 these ceremonies as im])ressive as possible. The exposition is to open its doors 

 to the public on May ist, 1893, and close them on October 31st, of the same 

 year. 'l"he buildings are all making satisfactory progress, and the horticultural 

 pavilions are up at the roof line. The electric lighting of these building will 

 require 138,218 electric lights, and the cost will be something like $1,500,000. 

 Transportation conveniences to and from the exposition, both for visitors and 

 exhibits, are to be as perfect as possible, and the facilities will be so abundant 

 that a maximum of 400,000 persons can be carried to and from the grounds 

 every day. 



Groundless Alarm Over American Fkiit. — The Horticultural Times, of 

 London, England, in its attempts to develoji the English fruit growing industry, 

 is lending it.self to the trick of abusing the American competitor. In its issue 

 for the 18th of January, an article appears headed, " Arsenic in American 

 apples. Death stalks in the wake of the poisoned fruit." This article states 

 that American ai)ples are coated with arsenic to destroy insects-=-that a fine 

 delicate powder may be rubbed off all such apples when the barrel is first 

 opened, which is arsenic — that this is absorbed through the skin into the apples, 

 poisoning the flesh — that the high color of American apples is unnatural, and is 

 due to the presence of arsenic. A mysterious case of poisoning is noted where 

 the husband was suspected of administering arsenic, but he was acquitted on the 

 ground that the lady has eaten freely of American apples, which jierhaps contained 

 arsenic. 



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