140 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Deacon Selover, Coldwater; Mrs. Mary J. Men-ill, Lansing-, and many others. 



This display of fruit received high praise. 



The Philadelphia Sunday Times, speaking of this last show of Michigan 



fruit, said : 



"This magnificent display from Michigan opens the eyes of Philadelphians to the 

 great resources of that State in fruit culture. Michigan may congratulate herself on 

 the general admiration the display has excited." 



The Philadelphia Daily Times: 



•■ The products of the soil present as good a view of a State or country as one can get 

 without an actual visit, and in Agricultural Hall, all countries and States are spread 

 out to view and we know at once the nature of the soil, the climate, and its natural 

 advantages, and in very many instances we are agreeably disappointed, our former 

 ideas having been so distinctly opposite to what we see before us. Michigan is a 

 striking instance of this, for the magnificent display of fruit which she has made 

 quickly dispels the popular notion that her soil is not fertile enough nor her climate 

 mild enough to be able to raise fruit to any extent and with any success." 



The Philadelphia Sunday Times: 



" The magnificent pomological exhibit of Michigan in Agricultural Hall consists of 

 four large tables covered with a profusion of the finest specimens of apples, pears, and 

 grapes. These are arranged with great taste, and their character and locality ex- 

 plained in the most courteous and intelligent manner. There are over 300 varieties 

 of apples, of which 1G0 are quite universally cultivated; 15 varieties of pears, and 40 

 of grapes are here represented." 



The Philadelphia Public Ledger: 



"The pomological display in Agricultural Hall continues to attract very general 

 attention from farmers and others engaged in agricultural pursuits. The collections 

 of the Michigan State Pomological Society, under the supervision of Mr. Ilgenfritz, 

 the representative of the fruit growers of the State, embraces nearly all that remains 

 of the extensive exhibition lately seen in Pomological Anuex. Four tables contain 

 :515 varieties of apples and 4G of grapes. Prominent among the winter apples are 

 beautiful specimens of Eed Canada, .Northern Spy, Jonathan, Wagener, Peck's Pleas- 

 ant, King of Tompkins Co., Baldwin, and MeClellan. The fall varieties include 

 Maiden's Blush, Fall Pippin, and Twenty Ounce. The summer are Sweet Bough, 

 Early Joe, Red Astrachan, Keswick Codlin. These varieties are worthy of culti- 

 vation most anywhere." 



The Centennial correspondent of the Detroit Post described this last display 

 of Michigan fruit, under date Philadelphia, Oct. 18, 1876, as follows : 



" Although the Pomological annex has been abandoned, the display of fruit in Agri- 

 cultural Hall (which is thronged all the time with a vast concourse of people) has 

 concentrated more than ever, attention on Michigan fruit. Fortunately, some forty 

 barrels of apples and boxes of grapes have arrived in prime condition, and Michigan 

 lias been assigned four tables, — two on each side of the great central fountain in Agri- 

 cultural hall. These tables are flat, so that all that are on each table can be seen in 

 one view, presenting a much more imposing scene than when the tables are composed 

 of shelves rising toward the center. 



"Mr. H. Dale Adams, of Galesburg, has been here the past ten days attending to 

 tin- unpacking of the apples he has grown and collected in Michigan. He favored the 

 flat table plan, and the result has proved the correctness of his views on this subject. 

 To stand at one end of one of these tables closely covered with the fresh and beauti- 

 ful winter apples of Michigan on plates arranged in ribbons of color like the flowers 

 of the Centennial flower-beds, affords a sight which, at flrst glance, strikes the eye 

 with delight. The beauty of the fiowers, now gone, is transferred and made more 

 durable in these rich and delicious fruits. There is nothing in this vast ten-acre hall 

 that is half so attractive at the present time as these beautiful productions of Michigan 

 orchards, ami the people throng around the tables expressing their admiration in the 

 most marked and emphatic manner. Ladies who are accustomed to see refiected the 

 modest blush of beauty whenever they look at a mirror, stand in front of these tables 

 and feel as if their ehanns were rivaled in the bewildering display; and, taken to- 

 gether, thes^ charming visitors, with eyes sparkling witli delight", and the tables 

 with the beautiful tint- of Michigan orchards and the aroma of the ripened fruit, fur- 



