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probable quantity and the approximate date when it will be ready for 

 shijDment so that the necessary arrangements for ocean transportation 

 can be made. 



In the case of winter apples and pears of the crop of 1900, of which 

 it is expected that the exhibits will be large after September 1, if the 

 crop is good, shipments can probably be arranged for from New York, 

 by any of the regular steamers, as refrigeration will not be required. 



If your socitey is interested in having your state represented, as 

 above indicated, I would suggest that action be taken at your annual 

 meeting with that end in view. 



Your exhibits can in that case be arranged for in ample time and 

 the necessary arrangements for their transportation and installation be 

 completed. The general plan as outlined in circular 8, will be followed, 

 though it is subject to such modification as occasion may require. 



Trusting that your society may have a pleasant and profitable 

 s^ession at its coming annual meeting, I remain. 



Yours very truly, 



G. B. Brackett^ 

 Pomologist and Expert in Horticulture, 



PARIS EXPOSITIOK 



Secretary Goodman. — We now have something over eighty-five 

 barrels of apples in cold storage in Kansas City for exhibit at the 

 Paris exposition next year. These will be added to from the best on 

 exhibition here now. The Armour Packing Company charge us noth- 

 ing for keeping these apples. 



J. T. Snodgrass.- — Are apples too ripe now to put in cold storage ? 



Secretar)^ Goodman. — I think not. It would seem that apples ex- 

 hibited and handled several times would not keep. We have often 

 kept them for the summer meeting and sometimes for another year. 

 After an apple gets ripe and the skin contracts is is safe to keep it, even 

 if it is ripe. The critical point is past now and this ripe fruit seen on 

 on the toble here will keep all right, and I think we can hold them 

 ready for the exhibit next spring. 



