The record-union., 1899-07-16

he did mop his brow and look fustered
when the proposition was made to du-
plicate the salt mines of Warsaw at a
depth of over a third of a mile.
1T will be the greatest feature ever
given at any exposition he said yes
terday, but it will be paying one.
True, to construct it in detail for
tune will necessarily be spent but it
will attract many thousands of visitors
and it should make a fortune for the
syndicate which stands ready to put
the money into it,
This Director Taylor by the way, be-
fore he accepted the dictatorship of the
concessions department of the Pan
American Exposition, was in the en-
ploy of the Federal Government and
was en- route to Finland and Sweden to
make a study and report on the agricul
ture, Horticulture and viticulture of
those countries. He ranks as one of
the greatest authorities in this country
in those branches, and it was largely
through his strong arguments that the
management has decided to make the
display of horticulture, viticulture and
agriculture one of the great features of
the coming fair.
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In view of the wonderful discoveries
recently made by Professor Weber of
the agricultural department at Wash
ington the management of the Pan
American is delighted with it's own de-
cision to make viticulture and horticul-
ture two of the great displays.
They know not where the discoveries
a o1yno dxyi v-inxx of -1,.,t
has been discovered they hold out hopes
wonderful growing things that the
mind Of man ever even dared to con-
lecture.
Prof. Weber's latest and greatest dis
covery in viticulture was that the seeds
of many fruits are poly embryotic; that
is that the one seed may contain a
number of different embryos, and that
it is possible to grow from one seed
more than one kind of fruit at the same
time. That astonishing freak of nature
was demonstrated recently when, by
the most delicate intergrafting and in
terbreeding three different kinds Of
lemons were grown on the same stalk
and from the same seed at the same
time.
Working on the Professors lines the
management of the exposition will soon
open up great system of nurseries and
will train fruits and flowers from the
present time until the opening of the
fair.
All manner of plants and trees and
shrubs will be intergrafted and inter
bred and great results for strange and
expected.
But what is the use of all this inter-
grafting?" Director Taylor was asked
a day or so ago when he was raving
Of the wonders that were to come in the
fruit and flower section of the exposi-
ton.
"USe?" he asked, as he glared at the
questioner as though out of all SYM
pathy with so much ignorance. Use?
Why, Great PETER, man, think what
may come Of it. See what Weber has
done already. Who knows where it will
stop? wouldn't it be feature to sec
rose bush laden down with roses and
sweet potatoes at the same time? Re
/ fleet on the aspect of pear tree laden
with pears, plums, apples, gooseberries
and pumpkins. Imagine if you can, a
cactus plant bearing pineapples and
Hubbard squashes, with here and there
fig or date perching up it's sweetness
as though in invitation"
do you imagine that it would be
possible to intergraft juniper bush
and q lime tree?"
Possibly, why?"
why then the visitors could pick
gin rickeys from it when the season
was right" ROY CRANDALL.
II thing be good it should be known;
usefulness consists in publicity-Dr