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AKKALS OF HORTICULTURE. 



burgh, Canada Baldwin, Pewankee, Winter St. Lawrence, 

 Pomme de Fer, Blue Pearmain, Haas, Bethel and Alexander. 

 Switzer is one of the promising new kinds. Fameuse is disap- 

 pearing, because of scab. From Prince Edward Island, Canada 

 Baldwin, Blenheim, Graven stein, Bibston Pippin and Alexan- 

 der, were the chief varieties shown. 



Maine had a very handsome collection of 35 varieties, in 

 which Baldwin, Northern Spy, Fameuse, American Golden 

 Russet and Hubbardston were most conspicuous. New Jersey 

 displayed a small unnamed collection in a refrigerator case. 



The New South Wales collection was from the current 

 year's crop. Duplicate shipments were sent in opposite direc- 

 tions around the world. The first to reach Chicago came by 

 way of San Francisco and was 52 days in transit ; but the other 

 consignment reached its destination in better condition, prob- 

 ably because of less rail transportation. The collection com- 

 prised the following varieties : Winter Pearmain, Claygate, 

 Golden Busset, Kentucky Bed Streak, Northern Spy, Pomme 

 de Neige (or Fameuse), Five-Crowned Pippin, Triomphe de 

 Luxembourg, New Hawthornden and Brown's Perfection. 

 These apples averaged about the size of large New York 

 specimens. 



Taken as a whole, the apple exhibits were good, especially 

 when one considers that none of the States were able to fully 

 prepare for collecting them the previous season. They did not 

 represent the entire country, to be sure, but they comprised 

 excellent specimens of all the leading types of American winter 

 apples. 



Citrous Fruits were the most prominent displays at the 

 opening of the Fair, and for four months they continued to be 

 the greatest attraction, among the fruit exhibits, to the general 

 visiting public. This was because the fruits were displayed in 

 almost reckless profusion and in many bold designs. The 

 largest single exhibit was made by Los Angeles county, Cali- 

 fornia, in the south-west curtain of the Horticultural Building. 

 A monument 35 feet high, covered with 13,873 oranges and 

 some lemons, stood near the north end of the curtain, the eagle 

 which surmounted it standing in the very peak of the roof. 

 The base of this monument was at first covered with the Wash- 

 ington Navel orange, which is the one distinguishing orange of 

 California; but as these passed out of season, Mediterranean 

 Sweets and others were substituted. At the southern end of. 

 the same room, a large central table or platform, 24 by 52 

 feet square, contained a Los Angeles exhibit in the central por- 

 tion, San Bernardino on the north, and San Diego on the south. 

 The boldest figure upon this table, which was overlaid with 



