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1893. 1894. 1895. 1896. 1897. 
Class A. Plants ee ROT Hil OS! h. 835, .5:3904 5572 
95 a sEONVEES); CLG? 039 5-47 2/45... 69.147 
Pan Cote hast oes 74.6 168),.105), 271.541 
sige WeSetaUNes. 4065580 wi 7A uuh2 54-27 Es) 552 
» E. Econ. Produé&ts — 84 71 298 479 
s, . tay Miseellaneous... 5: 17) | 12.;4 30 7 
» G.. Poultry we = 42, G6 87 
Totals «+» 235 596 535 1,425 2,086 
To still further illustrate the difference in the amount 
of material which has now to be entered, arranged and 
judged, in comparison with earlier Shows, it is sufficient 
to point out that the exhibits in each of the two classes 
of Fruits and Vegetables, in 1897, more than exceeded 
the total number of the whole Show two years ago. - 
The entries under different heads were in many cases 
very numerous, there being for instance 123 under 
sweet and bitter cassava, 97 for starches, and 76 for 
limes. In the great classes of fruit, vegetables and | 
economic produéts, the chief competition took place 
under bananas, pines, guavas, sweet and seville oranges, 
pomalloes, limes, shaddocks, cocoanuts, plantains, yams, 
sweet and bitter cassaya, tannias, ochroes, peppers, 
cornmeal, plantain meal, cassava meal and starches 
there being little—in some cases none—under pumpkins, 
cucumbers, vegetable marrow, radishes, lettuce, celery 
salads, cabbage, watercress, shallots, citrons, grapes, 
melons, custard apples, star-apples, cocoa, kola, rice, 
Liberian coffee, vanilla, tobacco, black pepper, pimento, 
ginger, chutnee, bees wax and crushed feed. Under a 
tew heads, such as grapes, chutnee and crushed feed, 
there was,not even a single entry. 
