^Mircb,??™- }   Fair  Forestry  outside  of  the  United  States.        1 2  5 
Manitoba  having  such  a  good  general  collection,  stood  on  her 
dignity  and  would  not  accept  the  small  space  allotted  her,  but 
erected  a  commodious  building  outside  the  Fair  Grounds  on  Stony 
Island  Avenue,  opposite  the  California  Building,  and  there  displayed 
her  products  to  not  only  her  satisfaction,  but  all  visitors  also. 
A  warmer  neighbor,  Mexico,  presented  to  our  view,  a  very  com- 
plete set  of  timber  specimens,  mostly  of  dark  woods,  but  not  well 
classified,  and  having  lost  our  Spanish  somewhere  en  route,  we  did 
not  recover  it  until  after  sampling  their  genuine  Zapote  chewing 
gum,  then  these  are  what  we  saw  and  read  :  under  the  South 
Colonnade,  a  Mahogany  Log,  43  feet  long  by  41  inches  square 
(Swietenia  Mahogani),  Ebony  (Diospyros  ebeneum),  Bombax 
(Acacia  Acapulcensis)  , Mulatto  wood  (Xanthoxylon  Clavi-Herculi), 
Guaco  (Aristolochia  grandiflora),  contrasting  strongly  to  our  small 
species  of  Aristolochia,  Linoleum  (Amyris  lignalce),  Cedar  (Cedrela 
odorata),  for  cigar  boxes,  Brazil  wood  (Caesalpina  crista),  Campeachy 
wood  (Haematoxylon  campeachiaum),  Dragon's  blood  (Pterocarpus 
Draco),  many  Magnolias,  Schinus  molle,  known  as  Pepper  Tree, 
and  which  was  used  so  much  this  past  season  as  a  decorative  shrub 
on  the  Fair  Grounds,  especially  around  California  Building,  Cypress 
(Taxodium  distichum),  Pitch  Pine  (Pinus  communis)  and  many  forms 
of  Cactus  wood.  To  represent  their  oaks,  of  which  they  have 
many  species,  they  showed  Quercus  Virens  or  Live  Oak,  and  claim 
it  as  the  most  durable  as  well  as  the  strongest.  The  Balsamo 
(Myroxylon  Pareira)  is  one  of  their  hardest,  and  used  principally 
for  railroad  sills.  Zopilote,  an  Ash  (Fraxinus  trilobata)  or  Turkey 
Buzzard  Tree,  is  a  very  common  one  ;  it  has  a  smooth  brownish 
bark,  which  annually  peels  off,  depositing  itself  at  the  base  of  the 
trunk  in  large  quantities  and  emits  on  fermentation  the  odor  of 
musk.  Mora  excelsa,  one  of  order  Mimosae,  yields  75  per  cent, 
tannin,  according  to  their  statement,  and  is  found  not  only  in  the 
bark,  but  the  wood  itself.    They  call  it  Granadillo. 
Spondia  canescens  furnishes  a  very  hard  wood,  but  as  they  say, 
its  great  peculiarity  is  to  concrete  its  sap,  in  amber  colored  crystals 
as  hard  as  flint,  thereby  completely  inutilizing  the  implements  of  the 
workmen.  Last  that  I  shall  mention  from  this  country  is  the 
sweetest  of  all  chictzapotl  chicle  (Sapota  achras),  which  forms  the 
most  beautiful  evergreen  tree  in  the  country. 
Here  we  are  now  in  Central  America,  but  not  in  Forestry  Hall, 
