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variety, seedling of Eumelan, resembling Concord in color, but 

 very sweet. Missouri showed by far the finest lots of peaches 

 in the building, the chief variety being the now famous Elberta. 

 This State also displayed new apples and pears, native plums, 

 and grapes in variety. Colorado, which heretofore had con- 

 fined itself almost wholly to bottled and wax fruits, now had 

 fresh peaches, wild goose plums and a long table of new apples. 

 Oregon was receiving new grapes, pears, apples and plums. 

 The great space at the north end of the curtain, occupied by 

 Florida earlier in the season, was rebuilding, and Nebraska was 

 spreading a very large and attractive display of apples, peaches, 

 grapes and native plums ; and Oregon had secured some of the 

 space for a show of stone-fruits, including the Early Red nec- 

 tarine and the Hungarian prune, the latter showing many 

 double specimens. 



Even at this date, it was too early to judge of the compar- 

 ative merits of even the early displays of new fruits, but it was 

 clear that Illinois, Oregon, New York, Missouri, Arkansas, 

 Ontario, Iowa, New Jersey, Nebraska and Wisconsin were to 

 make strong exhibits. California seemed inclined to rest upon 

 its citrous exhibits, and many States, even in the East, which 

 are capable of making important shows, had so far made no 

 effort. 



Late Stone Fruits at the Exposition. — Peaches, plums and 

 nectarines comprised the stone fruits on exhibition at the 

 World's Fair the middle of September. In peaches, Illinois 

 led, both in extent and variety. The peach-growing area 

 of the State comprises its southern half, and the peaches upon 

 the shelves were largely those which close the peach season in 

 Michigan and New York. Illinois and Kentucky were show- 

 ing varieties of similar type and season. These Illinois peaches 

 were chiefly Smock, with many specimens of Stevens' Rare- 

 ripe, Old Mixon, Heath Free, Silver Medal, Yellow Stump, Late 

 Crawford, Chair's Choice, Texas Ranger, Heath Cling. Some 

 plates of Elberta still persisted. Many of these are varieties 

 practically unknown in the northern peach areas. Among late 

 peaches from Kentucky were Salway, Fox's Seedling, Stump, 

 Ward's Late, and White Heath. Michigan had filled her tables 

 with a good lot of fruit, and that from the fruit region of 

 Oceana county was especially interesting. This northern 

 region, on September 13, was showing Early Michigan, which 

 comes in between Hale and Early Crawford, a white freestone, 

 of much better quality than Hale. There is some discussion 

 as to the difference between this and Lewis, but most growers 

 consider the two to be distinct. From Southern Michigan the 

 chief varieties on exhibition at this time were Kalamazoo, a 



