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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



The Toronto Exhibition. — The Directors of the Toronto Industrial Ex- 

 hibition Association are determined to look well after the interests of the exhi- 

 bitors in the Horticultural Department at their Fair. They are now erecting 

 for the coming Exhibition a new building, costing over $6,000, specially for the 

 exhibit of fruit. The building is very commodious and attractive looking, and 

 is being erected in view of the large exhibit of fruit which is sure to be made at 

 the Exhibition this year. The building is 118 feet long by 58 feet wide, and 

 contains 6,844 fcst of floor space. Two thousand one hundred square feet of 

 Shis space is devoted to the displays for fruit, leaving ample space for the public. 

 Provision is made for 2,500 plates of fruit. Ample ventilation has been pro- 

 vided for, the ceiling being 24 feet in height. This new Fruit Building will be 

 a great point of interest during the coming Exhibition from the 7th to the 19th 

 of September, which promises this year to be greater and better than ever. 



The American Pomological Society will hold its next biennial session 

 in the city of Washington, D. C, on the 22nd of this month, to continue for 

 three days. The meeting is to be held there in accordance with an invitation 

 from the Secretary of Agriculture, Hon. J. M. Rusk, and will meet in the Na- 

 tional Museum in that city. The work of this Society in promoting and elevat- 

 ing the standard of pomology in the United States and the British provinces has 

 received the hearty recognition of the Department of Agriculture, as is shown by 

 this invitation to hold the next meeting under the auspices of that Department. 

 A cordial invitation is extended to all pomological, horticultural and agricultural 

 societies and associations, in the United States and the British provinces, to send 

 as large delegations as they deem expedient to attend this convention. 



