THE MINNESOTA 
HORTICULTURIST. 
VOL. 28. OCTOBER, 1I900. No. 10. 
HORTICULTURE AT THE MINNESOTA STATE FAIR 
IN 1900. 
A. W. LATHAM, SECRETARY. 
At eleven o’clock, on the night of Saturday, Sept. 8, 1900, the forty-first 
annual fair of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society came to a close, lit- 
erally in a*blaze of glory, the last number of the program from the grand 
stand being a magnificent show of fire works, and all the buildings being 
brilliantly illuminated. The fair was well appreciated by the public, the 
number of patrons showing a considerable excess over the year before. The 
attendance was well distributed through the week, there being only on one 
day anything like a crush. 
As far as other parts of the ground are concerned, the writer is not 
prepared to make comparisons, but in the horticultural building, concerning 
which this article is written, there was a notable increase over the previous 
year, and increasingly so over other years. The fruit growing interests of 
our state may well be satisfied with the show made this year, the entries 
for fruit being much in excess of any previous fair, and the increase in the 
number of exhibitors and the plates of fruit shown keeping pace therewith. 
The exact number of entries of fruit is not this moment available, but 
the number of plates in the single plate list, each of which should represent 
an entry, amounted to 776, with the number of entries for collections seven- 
ty-five, amounting in all to 851. This is approximately the correct number 
of entries in the fruit department. Below is given somewhat in detail the 
facts summarized. The footings show that there were exhibited in this hall 
for competitive purpose a total of 3,741 plates, which includes something 
like seventy-five to a hundred jars of plums in glass, a number not only very 
much in excess in total, but also in detail, of the figures of the preceding 
year. The largest increase was in the plum exhibit, where gor plates were 
shown this year, as against 258 last year. The new sweepstakes premium 
of $50 had much to do with this increase, but it was made possible also by 
the unusually large crop of plums this year. 
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Wolleeno@ls,. professional, 4Entries ) 20... Skee eich ee cele e's 336 plates 
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Wolleciiogs of 16 varieties,’ ¥5 entries... (5.2.2. Poe. ele 150 plates 
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2,560 plates 
