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Mr. Sylvester Johnson: I was not here last night and I realize that 

 I missed a feast. I have been much interested in these remarks from the 

 gentlemen concerning the World's Fair. 1 was there myself a good deal 

 of the time. I was proud of the exhibit. I will say that the fruit was in 

 fine condition while I was there. On the wliole the exhibit was a success, 

 and Indiana will have something in the future to be proud of on account 

 of the exhibit. 



Secretary Flick: I want to state that as far as possible the whole 

 matter of the Horticultural Exhibit at St. Louis will be published in our 

 annual report with all the details possible. We have kept a pretty 

 accurate record of all who made entries and the varieties they entered. 

 We have also kept a record of when the specimens were put on the 

 table and when they were taken off, and all that we found out concern- 

 ing the variety, and have kept these for future investigation. W^e are try- 

 ing to see if apples from the northern part of the State, and those from 

 the southern part of the State are equally well behaved in cold storage. 

 We are trying to find out if apples from a certain soil keep better in cold 

 storage, than those from another soil, and there can be a great many facts 

 worked out from this exhibit in this way. The number of exhibitors 

 were about two hundred. The number of people that put their fruit in 

 cold storage last year (1U€3) were about one hundred. I am not positive, 

 not having the figures at hand. Altogether there were over fifteen thou- 

 sand plates of fruit exhibited, or put upon the table. Visitors who saw 

 on the tables oniy five or six hundred plates of fruit should remember we 

 changed the fruit frequently, and that it took quite a lot to keep it run- 

 ning during the whole time of the Fair, about nine hundred bushels. Our 

 showing of apples was good, and there is no doubt about that. Nearly 

 everyone gave us that compliment, especially on the better quality of com- 

 mercial apples. The committee at the beginning claimed that Indiana 

 could grow a good sized commercial apple with more flavor, more color, 

 better texture, and better keeping qualities than western States. We 

 thought that we were right in that, and it seemed that everyone there, 

 whether they were Hoosiers or not, wanted to taste our apples to ascer- 

 tain. I think we did as much good in that as we could have in any other 

 way. It caused us to have a reputation for apples of fine quality that few 

 other States have. 



I was much disappointed in fhe character of the Eastern fruit, the 

 fruit from New England, and New York, and Pennsylvania. Their fruit 

 was under size, but possibly this was because their orchards are old. 

 The flavor was very good. New York is the home of the King, but they 

 didn't show as nice Kings as we did. Neither did they show as nice 

 Greenings, or their boasted Baldwins. They were not as nice as the Indi- 

 ana apples in size, color nor flavor. 



There has been refei'ence made to the great showing of apples from 

 Oregon. That was a compliment that they deserve. It was perhaps the 



