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The Fruit Exhibit in London, England. — Mr. W. White, of Ottawa, 

 sends a clipping from the Canadian Gazette, of April 21st, concerning the ex- 

 hibit of fruit which is to be made in London, England, in the autumn of the 

 present year. In the elaborate preparations which our country is making for the 

 exhibit of our fruits at the Chicago Exposition of 1893, there is a danger of over- 

 looking other almost equally important exhibits which are within our reach. 



Great Britain is the principal apple mart for the apples of Ontario, while very 

 few of our apples go to Chicago, or to any other country of the world. We 

 should, therefore, lose no opportunity of making known to the people of Great 

 Britain the superior excellencies of the apples of Ontario. London is an enor- 

 mous city, containing according to the latest reports, nearly five million inhabi- 

 tants ; the importance, therefore, of taking advantage of the opportunity which 

 will be offered to us next September is too evident to be passed by without 

 careful consideration. We, therefore, call the attention of the fruit growers, not 

 only of our own Association, but of the Fruit Growers Associations of British 

 Columbia and Nova Scotia, to the notice that next September there is to be an exhi- 

 bit of fruit in London on the largest scale ever attempted there. It is to be under the 

 auspices of the Fruiterers' and Gardeners' Companies, the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, the British Fruit Growers' Association, and other kindred societies. 

 According to the Canadian Gazette, published in London, England, the corpora- 

 tion of the City of London has lent the vacant land of the Thames embankment 

 for the purpose, and a temporary building will be erected for the exhibit which 

 will last at least one week. The exhibits will be classified under three heads, 

 and prizes to the amount of over $1,500 will be offered for the best specimens. 

 The classes will include dessert fruits, orchard, house-grown fruits, collections of 

 fruit trees, English market fruits, hardy fruits grown in the open air, farm, orchard 

 and plantation grown fruit, cottage garden and allotment produce, foreign and 

 Colonial fruit and jams. Canada should not fail to be well represented, and the 

 Canadian associations may be able to use this exhibition to dispose finally of any 

 false impressions left by the recent arsenic scare. Canadian fruit, as we now 

 know, was not included in the allegations, but it would be well to seize this and 

 every opportunity to bring home to the English consumers the superiority of 

 the Canadian product. 





