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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
THE ISEXT GREAT FAIR . 
Agricultural Building to be the Largest Building Ever Constructed 
Dedicated to This Great Industry—More Than a Mile 
Around It—Important Features of the Louisiana Pur _ 
chase Exposition at St. Louis In 1903. 
Agriculture, by which the great Louisiana Purchase was 
developed, will receive the highest compliment which the 
World’s Fair at St. Louis can bestow. To this greatest of 
industries the greatest of all buildings ever constructed for any 
purpose will be dedicated. The Agricultural Building for the 
Lmisiana Purchase Exposition will be 2,000 feet long and 700 
feet wide, containing an area of 1,400,000 square feet, or about 
32 acres. Any person can best realize what these dimensions 
mean by finding a field of 32 acres and walking around or 
across it. Any man living in a city may compare it with the 
area of 320 city lots of 30 feet frontage, each 114 feet deep on 
a 66 foot street, and including streets. Allowing 20 lots to a 
square, the squares being 300x228 feet, it would be equal to 
16 city squares or blocks, an area of two blocks in one direc¬ 
tion and eight blocks the other, all under one great roof. 
Allowing two square feet for each person, 700,000 people could 
stand under this roof. An army of 50,000 men could assemble 
and go through its evolutions with freedom within this space. 
Its outside walls will measure 120 feet more than a mile. A 
good walker could encircle it in twenty minutes. The fast 
flyers of our best railroads would require a full minute to 
cover the distance. The Mississippi River flows an equal 
distance in about twenty minutes. It will contain about 
100,000,000 cubic feet of space, and the area of the floor space 
is sufficient for 4,666 exhibitors, allowing to each a space of 
10x20 feet, and a space of icxio to the center of the aisle, 
or 300 square feet in all. 
The Division of Agriculture will be the most complete and 
comprehensive ever presented, treating broadly of the science 
and principles of agriculture, farms, buildings, tools and 
machinery, the culture of cereals, grasses and forage plants, 
the culture of tobacco and textile plants, the vine and its 
products, economic horticulture, having special reference to 
vegetables and fruits, recreative horticulture, including land¬ 
scape gardening, floriculture and window gardening, domes¬ 
ticated animals, stock raising, the dairy industry, wool grow¬ 
ing and the minor animal industries. 
Enlarging upon these subdisions of the subject it may be 
stated that the agricultural division will treat of the agricul¬ 
ture of the past and of other countries, the agriculture of the 
Indians and of frontier and ranch life. The Experiment Sta¬ 
tion is a modern institution of great influence and will have a 
prominent place here for the display of agricultural geology, 
physics, chemistry and biology, physiology of plant and animal 
life, and meteorology. Soils will be classified by their charac¬ 
ters and by regions, systems of tillage and the rotation of 
crops will be shown, drainage and irrigation systems will be 
illustrated and the subject of fertilizers and their application 
will be treated in a way to be understood by the inquirer. 
Agriculture and its relation to stock raising constitutes another 
attractive branch of the subject. 
The section of viticulture will treat of the natural history of 
the vine, collections of vines and illustrations of varieties 
systems of vine culture and training, grape raising for the 
fruit market, the raisin industry as carried on in California and 
other countries of the wor'd. The process of making wine, 
champagne, brandy and other products of the grape, showing 
the construction of wine cellars, vaults, vats and machinery 
used in the industry. 
Horticulture naturally divides itself into two sections, the 
first that of growing vegetables and fruits, the second that of 
ornimental or recreative horticulture. The first of these may 
be again divided into garden economics and pomology. The 
exhibits relating to the first will include soils and fertilizers, 
and the principles of gardening, tools and appliances as dis¬ 
tinguished from those of agriculture, species of vegetables and 
specimens of cultivation, plans and drawings of hot houses, 
methods of heating, etc. Pomology will treat of all the tree 
fruits, as well as strawberries, melons, pineapples, bananas, and 
nuts of all kinds. To this may be added seed raising, methods 
and appliances, the fruit market and statistics of trade. The 
section devoted to ornamental horticulture will include pic¬ 
tures representing gardening of the past and present, the 
Dutch formal gardening, Japanese miniature gardening, and 
examples of th-e curious and beautiful in the art of gardening, 
with specimens of plants and their cultivation. Modern land¬ 
scape gardening will be shown by photographs, plans and 
drawings, bedding plants, ornamental bulbs, hardy perennials, 
shrubbery, roses, shade and ornamental trees, the window and 
roof garden, house plants, fern culture, the lawn and its care, 
the pleasure conservatory, orchid culture, propagating houses, 
flower markets and the flower and seed trade. 
Besides the great building devoted to agriculture there will 
be the vast area of live stock buildings, the outdoor horticul¬ 
ture exhibits, and other extensive special displays housed in 
special buildings, or having a special location out of doors. 
McKinley memorial trees. 
Mrs. O. D. Baldwin, of this city, whose family has associa¬ 
tions connected with the planting of the famous Charter Oak, 
which was, until some years ago, a conspicuous landmark near 
Hartford, Conn , suggests that a tree might be planted in this 
city to serve as a living memorial to President McKinley. 
The suggestion is a good one. If the ceremony of planting 
could be performed under the auspices of the public schools 
such an event would doubtless leave a lasting impression on 
the minds of the children. In fact, the suggestion is good 
enough to be taken up by every school department throughout 
the land.—San Francisco Chronicle. 
Xong anb Short. 
Elberta peach trees are offered by the Emporia Nurseries, Emporia, 
Virginia. 
An assistant foreman is wanted by the Giles County Nursery Com¬ 
pany, Lynnville, Tenn. 
Apple trees, cherry trees and forestry trees, all sizes, and grafts made 
to order at A. L. Brooke’s nursery, North Topeka, Kansas. 
A list of special surplus at bargain prices is quoted in another 
column by Jackson & Perkins Company, Newark, N. Y. 
A scene showing the digging of Nebraska northern grown apple 
seedlings is given on another page of this issue. J. A. Gage, Beatrice, 
Neb., has apple seedlings, Kieffer pear seedlings, cherry trees, one and 
two year, mulberry, black locust, ash, Osage seedlings, asparagus and 
rhubarb. He guarantees seedlings to be up to the best standard grades 
