134 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Charles A. Ilgenfritz, who was agent of the State Agricultural and Pomological 

 Societies, received and displayed the fruit to the hest advantage. 



Mr. J. "Waterman and Mr. P. E. White, of Northville, Michigan, made a 

 very fine display of Red Canada (called by them Steele's Red), and Northern 

 Spy apples, at one end of the table, and N". Helling & Brother, Battle Creek, 

 made a special display of apples preserved in their fruit house at a low tempera- 

 ture. The varieties exhibited by them, and which were in excellent preserva- 

 tion, were : 



Spitzenberg, Ben Davis, Vandervere, 



Bellflower, Baldwin, Jonathan, 



"Westfield Seek-no-further, Roxbury Russet, Northern Spy. 



Red Canada, 



Both Mr. Waterman and Mr. Helling were in attendance most of the time, 

 the former enthusiastically urging the claims of Michigan as an apple State, 

 and the latter explaining the character of the fruit preserving house established 

 by them at Battle Creek, while Mr. Ilgenfritz attended to the general super- 

 vision of the display, and furnished such information as was desired in regard 

 to the general character of Michigan as a fruit producing State. 



The contributors to this exhibition of Michigan apples, besides those already 

 mentioned, and those whose names may have been separated from their contri- 

 butions, were : R. C. Fassett, and C. Harrington, Sandstone, II. W. Doney, 

 Jackson, George Gavitt, Spring Harbor, all of Jackson county ; L, L. Lance, 

 Ganges, Allegan county; George Parmelee, Old Mission, Grand Traverse 

 county ; the South Haven Pomological Society, who sent a fine collection of 

 apples grown on the fruit farms along the east shore of Lake Michigan, in Van 

 Buren and Allegan counties; E. II. Reynolds, Levi Buck, Charles Atkinson, 

 Caleb Ives, P. Fisher, E. Jose, W. Bloodgood, C. Toll, A. White, J. M. Daven- 

 port, T. E. Mason, G. W. Burchin, Wakeman Reynolds, and Robert Hender- 

 shot, all of Monroe county ; II. Warder, Clarkston, Oakland county : P. C. 

 Davis, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo county. 



It will be seen from the preceding paragraph that the production of these 

 excellent keeping apples is not confined to any one region or part of Michigan, 

 but that east and west, north and south, and some interior localities are repre- 

 sented, so that the whole lower peninsular of Michigan may be truthfully 

 described as a good apple-growing region, and the quality of the fruit exhibited 

 at this particular display would indicate no very marked difference in the 

 character of the fruit from one region or another, but every part exhibited fruit 

 of high quality, maintaining in a remarkable manner the general excellence of 

 the State for this important branch of culture. 



Some idea of the impression produced by this display of Michigan apples 

 at this season of the year can be gathered from such remarks as the following, 

 which appeared in the newspapers at the time: 



The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. 



"The Michigan apple display is one of the finest ever seen in this city, and veil. 

 much credit upon the exhibitors from that State.*' 



The Philadelphia Daily Times. 



"The apples are as fresh and solid as if they were just grown, instead of being last 

 year's, and the attract inn towards them shows the deep interest the people have and 

 their great wonderment at the display. The exhibit will well repay a visit." 



The Pittsburg Commercial. 

 "In the center of the agricultural hall there is a very creditable display of apples 



