Connecticut western news., 1876-05-26
WHAT WE SAW.
A Correspondent tells us what he saw i'm
 Agricultural and Horticultural Halls.

Agricultural and Horticultural Halls.
 Agricultural hall, on the Centennial grounds, is 826 feet long and $40 feet wide; 1t contains 8 central avenue sev- enty feet wide, with many cross avenues and aisles; consisting of long nave crossed by three transepts-the whole built of Gothic truss arches; and covers an area of rather more than ten acres, or, inclusive of the ground used as stockyards, thirty-two acres. It cost $S26O, ,0OO, and was built in seven months.
 In the department of arboriculture and forest products there are timber and trunks of trees, entire or in transverse or truncated sections, with specimens of barks, leaves, flowers, seed vessels and soed; ornamental and dye woods; gums, ichens, mosses and shrubs.
 In the department of pomology there is a tempting array of apples, pears, quinces, nectarines, cherries, melons, and various other temperate and semi tropical fruits :; as well as oranges, bananas, lemons, pineapples, pome- granates, figs and cocoanuts, all grow ing on their respective trees or shrubs really interesting and notable sight. In the department of agricultural pro- ducts the visitor sees cereals, grasses, roots, spices, and extensive collection of seeds.
 In the department of land animals are found not only domesticated horses, mules, sheep, swine, dogs and cats, but also the lima, the camel, the chochineal bug, the silk worm, and countless number of insects of every sort. In | the department of marine animals there are seals, oysters, crustaceans, echino- | derms, and fishes in wonderful variety, together with nets, baskets and hooks, and apparatus used in the bree ling, culture and preservation of fish. In the department of animal and vegetable products are sponges, hides, feathers, honey, animal perfumes such as musk and ambergris, preserved meats, wines, biscuits, and vegetable oils. In the de- partment of textile substances of vege- table or animal origin there are cotton on the. stem, hemp, flax, wool in the | fleece, carded and in bales, silk in the cocoon and reeled, hair and bristles.
 In the department of agricultural i'm. plements and machines are steam power blows, breakers, harrows and cultivators, loaders and potato diggers, winnowers | huu GuTOSuOIS, 1ACuUdUO1S duO uA0dl choppers, churns, cheese presses and ice cream freezers. In the department of engineering and administration are stump extractors, irrigating machinery fertilizers, carts, sleds, and models anC drawings of farmhouses, of apiaries, anc of dairies. And finally, in the depart ment of tillage and general manage ment, are found systems of planting, o. draining and of stock breeding, as vel as the various and most improved appi ances of veterinary surgery.
 It seems useless in the presence O such an array of agricultural products processes and implements to make any
 invidious distinctions. Every man
 woman or child who enters the building either with or without the payment O. money. can make his choice.
 Horticultural hall, though the small
 est, is, architecturally, the prettiest, o
 the five principal buildings, and having
 been built exclusively by an appropria tion from the common council of thu
 city of Philadelphia, will, like Meroria } hall, remain permanently in Fairmoun
 park. It is constructed of iron ant
 glass, after the Moorish style of th twelfth century-a bijou specimen o
 architecture, two hundred and thirty b.
 eighty feet and fifty-fve feet high, sur mounted by "lantern one hundred and seventy by twenty feet and four teen feet high. Flights of blue marbl steps, with an open kiosque in the cen ter of each flight, lead up to the eas ) and west entrances and ornaments ) fountains decorate the angles of tn main conservatory. It cost $500, ,OOO $40, ,OO0 more than the huge Agriculturs
 hall, and was finished in eleven month after the laying of the foundations ! The grounds around it are good speci :, mems of intelligent landscape gardening
 The interior is devoted to the exhibi tion of ornamental trees, shrubs an flowers, of hothouses, conservatories graperies and their management and c : garden tools and the accessories of gal : dening. The designing, the construc tion and the management of gardens ar also exemplifed.