362 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTUEIAL SOCIETY. 



The hall, as usual, was arranged with the floral displays and 

 decorative plants around on the outside of the space occupied by 

 fruits, with hanging baskets from every post and a number of 

 vases of flowers suitably placed in the center of the hall. 



An unusually large display of cut flowers was made by 

 amateurs on Monday, and the same space occupied again by the 

 professionals on Thursday, the overflow of this extraordinary 

 exhibit finding a place along the center of the fruit tables, 

 brightening and beautifying the hall in a charming way. 



There were three dining table decorations by Minneapolis 

 florists, and these were constantly surrounded by a crowd of ad- 

 mirers of their beauty. 



The center of the hall as heretofore was occupied by six long 

 tables containing the fruits on display in this department. 



The display of the Jewell Nursery Co., which for a number 

 f f years has been the crowning piece of the horticultural de- 

 partment, this year consisted of a windmill some thirty feet high, 

 arranged with a base of graduated shelves containing fresh and 

 canned fruits, the mill itself being veneered with apples and pro- 

 vided with machinery for turning the sails. Our readers will be 

 interested to know that since the fair this mill has been taken 

 down and is being set up in Horticultural Hall at St. Louis as a 

 feature of the Minnesota fruit display. There were three other 

 nursery exhibits, in the corners of the hall, by A. A. Bost, Ex- 

 celsior; Benjamin T. Hoyt, Hamline, and C. P. Nichols, North- 

 field. 



The number of exhibitors was somewhat less than previous 

 years, some of them having lost much of their fruit from the 

 storms that did an especial amount of damage in the Minne- 

 tonka region, and others absent from various other causes. The 

 principal exhibitors present were all of them names familiar to 

 our readers, J. A. Howard, W. L. Parker, Dewain Cook, Frank 

 Yahnke, H. H. Heins, and that veteran in this department, Ditus 

 Day. A large number of other exhibitors contributed in a 

 greater or less degree to this display. Of those who might be 

 called regular exhibitors, we noted specially the absence of F. I. 

 Harris, of La Crescent ; J, W. Lufkin, who owns the old Somer- 

 ville orchard, at Viola ; F. J. Butterfield, Long Lake, and Wm. 

 Oxford, Freeburg. 



Notwithstanding the decrease in the number of exhibitors, 

 the exhibit as a whole in the hall amounted to about the usual 

 maximum number of plates. There were approximately 419 



