Tables for display of fruit fill the entire center of Horticultural Hall. Four rows, side by side, seven to eight feet wide, go the whole length of the Hall, amounting to over two thousand feet in length. It is now about two months that these vast tables have been crowded with the various fruit displays. The question has been asked whether the display has been equalled ? A gentleman who has had some experience in such matters, Mr. Lyon of Michigan, says it never has been equalled. Early exhibits were mainly apples and pears from the different states and territories. Seventeen states contributing to the display, with small contributions from Canada, England and France.

The best exhibits were from Arkansas and Missouri, each taking a first premium. The marvel of all was to see the progress made in fruit growing in the newer Western states and territories, exhibiting displays ahead of many older states. Mexico, Jamaica and British Honduras, have fine displays of oranges, lemons, pineapples, cocoanuts, with also sugar cane. The Mississippi State Horticultural Society makes a truly fine display of preserved fruits - apples, pears, quinces, and small fruits. Wm. Parry of New Jersey, has also a fine display of preserved Kieffer pears and small fruits. The early displays of Northern fruits, remaining on exhibit from six weeks to two months, having been much thinned out by decay and other causes, have partly been removed or condensed so as to make room for Florida's display, - a truly wonderful one. The State exhibit is in charge of Dr. G. W. Davis of Jacksonville. The exhibit is large and has many attractions, but the greatest of these are two private exhibits made by Major O. P. Rooks of Fruitland Park, Sumpter county; and C. P. Magruder of Rock Land Home, Indian River. These two exhibits are much the same, and would be hard to surpass.

To particularize, in Magruder's exhibits are Lemon Citrons weighing 11 lbs.; Rose Shaddocks, 7 lbs.; French Lemons, over 2 lbs. They claim about 80 distinct varieties of oranges. Their other fruits are pineapples, cocoanuts, guavas, etc. The Florida exhibits taken together cover several thousand plates.

Although the plant portion of the show is not what we had a right to expect it would be, the fruit display is all that could have been expected. Indeed the plant display, unfortunately, very unfortunately, is the only lame point (and that is not as lame as it might be) in the whole affair, covered as it is by about seventy acres of roofs.

New Orleans, La.