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grapes and peaches have been replaced two, three or four times ah'eady, 

 and will take as many more changes before the end of the exposition, 

 so that it is easily seen that it will take 12,000 to 15,000 plates of fruit 

 to keep this display up until the close. What work this involves in col- 

 lecting, wrapping and shipping, to say nothing of the changes made on 

 the tables, the cleaning up the exhibit every morning and the handling 

 over and over the plates of fruit, only those who have done and are doing 

 the work can realize. 



Taken, then, the Missouri Fruit Show, as it now appears, and the 

 officers given assurance that it will be improved every week up to the 

 close, the visitor has to say that no other display has ever begun to show 

 the extensive capabilities of the great state of Missouri in the fruit line 

 as has this one. No one can view the extensive display and say aught 

 against Missouri as a fruit district, and it is the firm belief that it will 

 do very much to induce the people of other states to find a home in 

 Missouri. 



Also this report given by the Star-Sayings, St. Louis: 



OUR MONSTER SHOW. 



THE TIDE OF CURIOSITY SETTING IN AT THE EXPOSITION — COUNTLESS 



OBJECT LESSONS — AN ARRAY OF WONDERS CONFUSING 



TO THE UNTUTORED MIND. 



You know when you are near the pomological display of the Mis- 

 souri State Horticultural Society, at the Exposition, long before you get 

 there, for the fragrance of apples permeates the atmosphere like an or- 

 chard at ripening time. To an apple lover, it is not unlike being in Tar- 

 taros, to walk through the large room filled with the fruit treasures of 



