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AKIsTALS OF HORTICULTURE. 



In this great display, many States and several Provinces 

 were concerned, and each one had its distinctive merits. Bnt 

 it is conceded that New York was among the first in the uniform 

 excellence and variety of its display, and in the correctness of 

 nomenclature and abundance of educational features. Califor- 

 nia, both in the Horticultural Building and its own State Build- 

 ing, was the most lavish in its displays, and it attracted most 

 attention. Illinois was one of the largest and very best exhib- 

 itors. Ontario, like New York, displayed a great variety of 

 fruits of high character. Oregon, Washington and Idaho 

 astonished the Eastern visitors with the glowing colors and 

 enormous sizes of the tree fruits. Other leading exhibitors 

 were Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Arkansas, Nebraska, 

 New Jersey and Michigan. Over half the States made no 

 definite attempt at display, although, first and last, something 

 in the line of fruit was received from residents of nearly all of 

 them. 



The Opening Exhibit of Apples.* — Apples of the crop 

 of 1892, taken from cold storage and exhibited in the Hor- 

 ticultural Building, at the opening of the Exposition, were dis- 

 played by States and Provinces, as follows : Maine, New York, 

 New Jersey, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, 

 Iowa, Colorado, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Onta- 

 rio, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island; and New 

 South Wales sent 10 varieties of the current year's crop. The 

 displays of apples from the Northwestern States — Idaho, Ore- 

 gon, Washington — were characterized by fruits of enormous 

 size, high color and remarkable freedom from scab. To an 

 Eastern man, the most interesting variety from these States was 

 the Yellow Newton Pippin, which is the leading apple over a 

 great territory there, and which is twice as large as the same 

 apple grown in the Hudson River valley. Blue Pearmain, 

 which is little known in the Eastern States, ranks second in 

 general importance in the Northwest, and specimens on exhi- 

 bition measured 14 inches in circumference. Th£ Idaho com- 

 missioner considered Yellow Newton Pippin, Blue Pearmain, 

 White Winter Pearmain, Winesap, Janet, Ben Davis, Wolf 

 River and Esopus Spitzenburgh the leading winter apples for 

 that State. He had an exhibition of 23 varieties in the fresh 

 state, and an additional number in liquids. There is a con- 

 spicuous difference in specimens of the same variety when 

 grown with and without irrigation. The irrigated apples are 



*For an account of the geographical differences in the apple exhib- 

 its and for lists of the varieties shown by New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, 

 Washington and New South Wales, see Rep. Am. Assoc. Nurserymen, 

 1893, 1-5. 



