The Canadian Horticulturist. 



PREPARING FOR CHICAGO. 



R. N. AWREV, has been apjiointed Commissioner for 

 Ontario to the \Vorld's Fair, and Mr. A. H. Pettit, our Pres- 

 ident, superintendent of the fruit exhibit at the Cireat Ex- 

 position. This gentleman is now, June 8th, in Philadel- 

 phia, where he will meet Prof. Saunders and purchase a 

 large number of suitable jars to contain the choice 

 Ontario fruit. Prof. Saunders has been experimenting 

 with various liquors in order to find one that will effectually preserve our 

 berries, peaches, pears and other fruits, without changing the color and causing 

 shrinkage; he is placing all the results of his investigations at our disposal. 



Ontario has a large and well-chosen allotment of space of 2400 square feet 

 in the Horticultural Hall, at Chicago, for her fruits, and it is desirable that it be 

 filled the whole season, from the first of May until the end of October, with the 

 best possible display of our fruits, both canned and fresh. 



Arrangements are now being made to have a cold storage in Chicago, ready 

 by the first of November, for keeping a good stock of the different varieties of 

 our winter apples and pears. These will be brought out as required during the 

 first month of the exhibition. 



Each Provincial Government has agreed to make as fine a collection of their 

 fruits as possible, so that Canadian progress in this industry will be fully repre- 

 sented. Each will undertake the work of preparing its own fruit for this great 

 exposition, and the expenses of providing containers for the same. 



Speaking of the grandeur of the horticultural exhibit, a recent bulletin says : 



" In the rear curtains of the buikling will be shown the fruit exhibit, which will include 

 all varieties grown in any part of the world. As far as it is possible to do so, probably in 

 a great majority of cases, tine specimens of the natural fruit will be shown. Otherwise wa.x 

 moilels, so perfect in appearance as to be indistinguishable from the real fruit, will be sub- 

 stituted. For this exhibit about 44,000 scjuare feet, or more than an entire acre of space, 

 13 resers'ed. A very complete and splendiil exhibit of citrons and other fruits will be sent 

 from California, Florida, 5lexico and Soutii American countries. Hy means of refrigerators 

 lipe fruit can be sent long distances without injury, and after reaching the Fair cold 

 storage facilities will be available to keep it in perfect condition. 



" In the north pavilion of the Horticultural building will be a very extensive display 

 of vegetables, canned goods, liorticultural appliances, etc. In the second story of ejich 



Savilion will be a restaurant capable of seating about "JOO and profusely adorned with ferns, 

 owers, and exotic plants. Outside will l)e a nunilier of greenhouses, where visitors may 

 Bee an exceptionally complete collection of tropical vegetation. There will also l>e large 

 auxiliary greenhouses, not open to tlie general public, wjiere plants will be brought to 

 perfect exhibit condition, and wlicre plants will be cared for after their beauty season has 

 paiHsed. 



" It may be rightly inferretl that the Horticultural exhibit at the ex])osition will l>e 

 tlic most complete and extensive ever made or attempted. It is certain to attract a great 

 deal of attention an<l prove to be of great scientilic and educatioiuil interest. It will have 

 important featuicH not hpeci/ied above, as, for examjile, a very complete collection of 

 insects, i>otli the injuricjus and beiieticial ones, whose operations allect tlie fruits and other 

 products of tlie horticultiuint. It is the intention t> have in one place an exliilut of all of 

 the species of plants mentioned in the l^il>le, and in otiiers collections of almost et^ual his- 

 torical interest.'' 



