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tion opened, daring the hottest part of last August, and our Treasurer 

 was with ine for a week of the hardest work of arranging for the 

 opening, and during the week of opening, and he was my right-hand 

 man until the last plate was on the table. He made a number of trips 

 to St. Louis from his home, after we found that we would have to do 

 the work alone, and I am glad to say that the result shows that we 

 did not fail in any regard. 



To the Exposition management, I wish to express my hearty thanks 

 for the very many favors, kind expressions and kind attentions during 

 the whole of the Exposition. No one who has never attempted to col- 

 lect and care for such an exhibit of fruits can begin to realize what a 

 burden it is to attend to it. In no exhibition that I have ever attempted 

 to make, have matters been so pleasantly and agreeably arranged, and 

 every item to the minutest detail been so satisfactorily accomplished. 



Our Society comes from this work with the kindest of feelings for 

 the Exposition, and I am sure that the Exposition feel the same toward 

 the Society, as shown by the following letter : 



St. Louis, November 6, 18'J4. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, Secretary State Horticultural Society, Westport, Mo. : 



Dear Sir— Yours of the 26tli was handed nie this morning on my return. I don't know 

 that I shall be able to go to Trenton on December 5, 6 and 7, but If I can I shall be very glad 

 to meet your Association again. I take this occasion to thank you for the fruit exhibit of 

 the State of Missouri, which was a great source of pleasure to the visitors, and I believe 

 was the means of bringing its fruit products, through the display, before the city of St. 

 Louis and visiting strangers, and I think it was a great credit to the State of Missouri, your 

 Association and the city of St. Louis. Yours truly, 



Fraxk Gaiennie, General Manager. 



Besides all these pleasant and agreeable associations, the St. Louis 

 Exposition has done what no other company or association has ever 

 done for our Society. 



Just think of it : 1st, the Exposition paid all the express on the 

 fruit sent to St. Louis, $150.70; 2d, the Exposition paid a man to assist 

 me all the time in caring for the exhibit, and he was with me from 7 a. 

 m. to 10:30 p. m. every day, Mr. Homer A. Nelson did his part well 

 and faithfully, for which I have to thank him much. 3d, the Exposition 

 paid all my expenses during the time, and a small amount per diem ; 

 4th, the Exposition is anxious that next fall we repeat the display on a 

 grander scale, and will give us every inducement to do so. 



The display that we made in 1888 cost the Society over $800, while 

 this display, almost its equal in size, and fully its equal in quality, cost 

 the Society only $129.28, of which $38 was for photographic views and 

 $10 for framing the same. 



Now as to the results of this show, I cannot begin to point them 

 out to you ; the seed sown will spread and grow ; we know not when, 

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