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elongated, and this in question is not more drawn out than I 

 should expect. I place my judgment on record that it is the 

 Red Beitigheimer." 



There were a few exhibits of nuts in the second story of 

 the north pavilion, comprising walnuts from California, and 

 pecans. There was no general or consecutive display of the 

 nut fruits, however. The most important displays in this line 

 were those devoted to the pecan, because this is a fruit of 

 American origin and one which has only very lately attracted 

 the attention of fruit growers. Pecans were the subject of 

 four small, but very interesting exhibits. The Stuart Pecan 

 Company, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, in which W. R. 

 Stuart, author of The Pecan, and How to Grow It, is a leading 

 spirit, showed a collection of varieties in jars. These varieties 

 were Stuart, Van Deman, Columbia, Jewett and Beauty. B. 

 M. Young, Morgan City, Louisiana, showed an interesting 

 series of photographs of trees, flowers and nuts, and also speci- 

 mens of the following varieties : Pabst, St. Martin, Miller, 

 Vermilion, Frotscher, and many seedlings. E. E. Risien, San 

 Saba, Texas, had a number of large and very fine varieties, 

 which, however, were unnamed. He also had photographs 

 showing the top-grafting of large wild trees. The trees are 

 " topped" twenty or thirty feet high, in March, and buds are 

 set the middle of June. The Swinden Pecan Orchard, of 

 Brownwood, Texas, showed a picture of its pecan orchard of 

 16,000 trees, together with a collection of nuts and confections, 

 and oil and soap made from them. 



Raisins, prunes, Zante currants, and other prepared fruits, 

 were shown in profusion by exhibitors from various States and 

 countries, but a discussion of them is not germane to this 

 account. 



General Remarks on the Fruit Displays. — The fruit exhi- 

 bition, particularly late in the season, was probably the most 

 complete and best effort of the horticultural department. 

 Yet even here the entire country did not respond to the efforts 

 of the Exposition as it might have done. A few States and 

 Provinces only, notably California, New York, Illinois, Oregon, 

 Washington, Idaho, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, 

 Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Michigan and Canada, made large 

 and more or less extended displays, but these States do not 

 represent the pomology of North America; and as for foreign 

 countries, only New South Wales, Russia and Italy made any 

 attempt to show fresh fruits. The most lamentable gap in the 

 pomological department was the almost entire absence of 

 exhibits from the Southern States. A few States did remark- 

 ably wellj but the country as a whole certainly fell short of 



