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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
THE NATIONAL APPLE SHOW. 
One thousand dollars in gold will be awarded as a special 
prize to the grow r er of the best single apple exhibited at 
the National Apple Show in the Spokane State Armory., 
December 7 to 14. The competition is open to the world. 
In addition, prizes aggregating $14,000 and numerous 
trophies, medals, banners and ribbons will be hung up for 
exhibits in other classes. 
Officers of the Spokane County Horticultural Association, 
headed by H. W. Greenburg, under whose auspices the 
exposition will be held, have completed preliminary arrange¬ 
ments for the incorporation of the National Apple Show 
Society under the laws of Washington, with a capitaliza¬ 
tion of $100,000, which will be immediately subscribed 
by local people. 
The committee on incorporation and plans is to be com¬ 
posed of Louis W. Hill of St. Paul, president of the Great 
Northern Railway company; D. C. Corbin of Spokane, 
president of the Spokane International Railway company; 
Floyd L. Daggett, formerly mayor of Spokane; Lachlan 
Maclean, president of the Spokane Canal company; David 
Brown, president of the Hazelwood company; W. D. 
Vincent, president of the Washington State Bankers’ 
Association, and Philip T. Beecher, local capitalist. L. F. 
Williams is chairman of the finance committee, and A. 
Van Holderbeke, formerly State Fruit Commissioner of 
Washington, is at the head of the prize list committee. 
Growers in all parts of the United States and Canada, 
as well as Europe, will be invited to send exhibits for com¬ 
petition, and there will be displays in contests between the 
Pacific and Northwestern states and provinces and the 
various districts in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, 
Montana and British Columbia. 
Advices already at hand are that growers in the pro¬ 
vinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British 
Columbia and New York, Maine, California, Ohio, Michigan, 
Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Massachusetts and several 
other eastern and middle-western states will enter as con¬ 
testants, and it is known that practically every recognized 
district in the Northwestern and Pacific states will be 
represented. The chief judges of the show will be exporters 
from England or Germany and experts from eastern and 
middle-western states. 
The prize list will be the largest ever offered in competi¬ 
tion for growers of apples. The purpose is to encourage 
the industry, not alone in the Pacific Northwest, but all 
over the continent and throughout the world. 
The primary object of the organization is to popularize 
the apple as the great national fruit, by creating a greater 
demand for high-grade fruit at prices which will leave a 
profit to the grower without working a hardship upon the 
consumer. The plan is to educate the people to the know¬ 
ledge that there is nothing more healthful than a good 
apple to begin and end the day. Thus will the apple come 
into its own as the King of Fruits. 
To give an idea of the rapid growth of the apple industrv 
in the Northwest it may be mentioned that official reports 
submitted to Governor Albert E. Mead show Washington 
had 3,772,105 producing trees last year, and that 500,000 
more will come into bearing this year, when also 1,000,000, 
one- and two 1 year-old trees will be set out in various parts 
of the state. The value of the 1907 crop in this state was 
$10,000,000. Expert horticulturists say the yield will 
bring from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 this year if they are 
able to secure sufficient help to harvest the crop and ade¬ 
quate transportation facilities to send it to the markets. 
REPORT OF SPRING TRADE 
At this writing we are still shipping wholesale orders. 
Retailers and catalogue men are in the midst of billing out. 
It will take them the rest of the month to finish up. The 
trade here this Spring exceeds that of a year ago and prices 
ruling better, some varieties of pear and apple bringing 
exorbitant prices. Very little stock w'ill be carried over 
except some varieties of plum. I have never seen such a 
clean up of apple and cherry of all grades. Never in my 
time did stock wdnter any better than the past Winter; no 
damage was done. I am satisfied that prices w r ill continue 
good for at least a few more years. About the usual 
amount of stocks will be planted this Spring, some nursery¬ 
men have commenced planting and about the usual amount 
of stock will be for sale this Fall, and as good as usual. 
We had an unusual good Spring for handling stock. It is 
a little early to tell much about collections.—J. M. Kennedy, 
Dansville, N. Y., April 20, 1908. 
THE NEXT WORLD’S FAIR. 
By Frank L. Merrick. 
Now that the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition has 
closed, all eyes are turned tow T ard the next great world’s 
fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition which will be 
held at Seattle, Washington, opening June 1, and closing 
October 15, 1909. 
This exposition will be held in a section of the country 
where world’s fairs are new and for that and many other 
reasons it is expected to be a success, beneficially, educa¬ 
tionally, artistically and financially. 
Work on the grounds and buildings of the exposition is 
well under w r ay and the management is determined to have 
everything in readiness by opening day. This has been 
written about all expositions in late years, but the promise 
has never been completely fulfilled. The officials of the 
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, however, have started 
Out with a completed-on-opening-day idea above every¬ 
thing else, and if they do not carry out their plan it will 
not be because western energy has not been expanded in 
the task. 
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition promises to be 
different from former w'orld’s fairs in many ways, but one 
policy stands out so far above any of the rest that the 
entire press of the country is commenting favorably about 
it. No money wall be asked from the Government. This 
is a neAv feature for a World’s fair. 
