The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-11

TUNED nj this time arc A fruit cabinet all the vari
Gus kinds offruit paper from Cincinnati
BY new process which wonderfully exact and ex-
nemey beautiful the fan palm from Japan. pines on
which grow the pine apple, the PhGnix palm, Hibiscus
OF Australia India gum, or rubber tree; Banana tree
new arbutuem with striking blossoms; the Mexican
Yucca sage palm, Australian eversccns, large phlo-
centrum in fruit; horga bearing fruit similar TO
strawberries from Japan; hgs bearing fruit In the
east greenhouse Is large palm stalk stump with
cactus growing from the top In another room is
great variety Of budding plants On the other
side Is a magnificent fernery, among which Is a
new calndium white and lovely South Mexican plants.
qaite curous the deer's tongue, with young leaves
growing out OF old ones; the ceonoma pumla, from
Africa sugar plant dracccna, rare decorative
plant blood rcd Dutch pipe plant which gorgeous;
maranthum, from the Amazon River, seldom seen;
Livingstone PALM from Africa; Maiden hair fern.
Near the north specimens OF coffee ten
and sugar plants On tho grounds is large collection
OF roses Paris, notable from the fact that many
varieties arc budded single OF native wild
rose of Europe.
1t that tho French win be likely excel all
nations In At great distance is large
planting OF American tea roses. now coming Into
bloom and all old and sorts presented Amer
lea will make the best show IL is able to make.
AGRICULTURAL
Undoubtedly Agricultural Hall is the largest struc-
ture that has bcen constructed in America
for rural exhibition, and in some respects its
construction differs from any other chiefly in
the use and combination OF the homo truss
arches. It consists, in the ground plan, OF
long nave, crossed by thrce transeps. Tho
nave is $50 feet long by 100 WIDE and
each end projects 100 feet beyond the square,
OF the structure The point OF the arch IL as feet
above the floor The spaces having rooted
in the floor Is 465 by $50 feet said to be about
ten acres The building is conspicuous from dis
lance by the roof being painted q living green, which
adds to its appearance. Tho objects exhibited EN-
brace all the products Of the soil, whether In
a raw or manufactured stato fish culture and
the apparatus, fabrics OF vegetable and animal
origin general line Of rural implements and labor
saving appliances and whatever pertains to agricul-
tural engineering All kinds or machinery that is do
voted agricultural purposes to be found here
thus the machinery of the Exhibition divided with
Machinery Hail. Ample steam power is in place ready
to be applied that tho Of all inventions
can be observed and tested.
Two engine houses have been added to the cast sdc
for horizontal 125-horso power engine and the
other for a vertical S0horse power Further belong
ing this department dairy and brewers buildings
also ono for wagons, of which several nations will ex
hibt specimens; Pathological hall and fifteen
twenty wind mills, applicable to agricultural purposes
The number or exhibitors is Of Americans 1,45o; OF
foreigners about 500 In the Of the hall is
fountain SAID be among tho largest in this country
dschargng eighty gallons minute 1t would be an
almost endless tnsk to mention in detail
the exhibits OF confectionery, tobnccos, prepared
meats, fruits, bread, wines, Seeds starch and the
hike but 1t will be interesting to many hereafter
and especially will II profitable to give descriptions
OF the WOOL cottons and other materials form
fabrics from all parts OF the world and which
tincay arranged not in simple but In CONNER
ciai packages
The display OF agricultural mrle or, what is
the thing, OF labor saving machinery, is the most
complete made this, and probably in any other
country and the workmanship OF the specimens is
marksbly praseworthy. The progress OF civilization
Is moro intimately connected with these
things than with any other through the whole
range OF human achievements. for they have
multiplied the powers Of human hands and
tended the boundaries Of time 1t is yet too
compare implements with those OF Europe, Africa
and Asia, these last not yet fully exhibition,
and when tho proper time comes Il will be highly
proper to place the implements used by our fathers
along side those which to-day.
or all the foreign exhibitors Ia this Agricultural Hall
in such readiness, and probably is
varied and exhaustive, that OF Brazil. Tho
range mauulactOry,
mine forest; taste correctness carefuness and
good Judgment shown in the collection OF Brazil
IL this department Of agriculture Indicate directing
that much resembles the sagacity and breadth Of
that which characterized Horace Greeley II win be
pleasure hereafter to indicate the mind which gov
crncd and directed in this Exhibition and II shall
be found-as Is suspccted-that It that OF the EN-
peror's rural industry and life and duties no
will receive such honors as no crowned head has
paid before. Be this as Il may II is certain
that Brazil has done everything that possible to
do to make known to tho world tho natural re-
and riches OF this great South American En-
pre. From the Province OF Amazonas arc shown
India rubber tobacco. rico cotton, coffee sarsaparia
q peculiar kind OF maize or corn but
tho chief article is rubber Para shows much OF
the same, also cocoa which is extensively cultivated
sugar, arrow root and various oils Maranhao cotton
OF superior quality, rice, coffee, indigo apioca Pauhy,
sugar, coffee woods, leather Cerar& tobacco, sugar,
rice, farina coffee Rio Grandc de Nortc, cocoa pro-
ducts. medicinal plants, &c Parahyba, tho same
Eorto sugar, cotton, woods rice wax; but
at present tho other provinces mood only
DO namcd-viz, Pcrnambuco Aiagoas, Serg.po Bahia
Espirito santo RIO Janeiro, s. Paulo Parana, santa
Catharina, Rio Grand do Sui, Minas. Gcrdes, Goyaz
and Mao Crosse all OF which arc more or loss repre-
scntcd Many OF these provinces largely engaged
biIities for in these branches arc simply
enormous
An interesting part Of the collection OF Brazil con-
sists in great variety Of their fruits, canned con
served, condensed dessicatcd otherwise prepared
and this too. in most scientific manner, presented
in commercial packages Some of these claimed
TO have special medicinal qualities. It has long
been known that there immense money
value in tropical fruits but their flavor and quality
qdickly lost during voyage and this bc tho
iirst exhibition OF q scientific attempt to conserve
them. The opportunity great, for the employ
mcnt OF the cheap labor Of tropical countries in
tins fitting their abundant fruits for the markets
OF temperate regions. country which is so easily
reached by trading vessels Brazil, and which Is
making great expense exhibit or It's products
this International Exhibition, deserves marked
tcntion.
Most OF the other foreign nations late IN display