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at Boston last year. This display to a large majority of visitors at 

 Horticultural Hall did not appeal to them as being out of the ordi- 

 nary routine of fruit exhibits unless their particular attention was 

 called to it and a minute description was given illustrating the points 

 of excellence and possibilities to be derived from making crosses 

 when attempting to produce new and improved fruits by the seedling 

 process. When this exhibit was put on the table we supposed it 

 would hold good for six weeks at least, but the exceedingly warm 

 weather, with a temperature of 85 to 90 degrees in the hall, caused 

 many of the earlier kinds to decay at the end of two weeks' exposure. 

 The remainder were repacked and sent to cold storage in Minneap- 

 olis for our winter meeting. 



Prof. A. T. Erwin, the judge that passed upon this exhibit, 

 was very much surprised to see the great number of good kinds 

 resulting from this cross of five known pollens on the Malinda's 

 blossoms, confirming his view of the possibilities of combining the 

 good qualities by right manipulation of pollen from different varie- 

 ties to produce apples of superior excellence with all the desirable 

 points, such as habit of growth, hardiness, productiveness and keep- 

 ing quality. He thought this was one of the most remarkable pro- 

 ductions from natural pollination, giving us in the northwest great 

 hopes for the benefits to be derived from the production of seedlings 

 adapted to our climatic conditions and worthy of propagation. 



Our second exhibit (the windmill) was a very unique and well 

 arranged design, attracting the attention of all visitors to the hall. 



The number of persons visiting Horticultural Hall was exceed- 

 ingly small when compared with other exhibition buildings on the 

 ground. There was much to interest and instruct any person who 

 came to see fine fruit — a splendid place to see the fine varieties on 

 exhibition and compare their form and color when grown on various 

 soils under different climatic conditions and management. 



MINNESOTA FRUIT EXHIBIT AT THE WORLD'S FAIR, 



OCTOBER 15. 



FRANK YAHNKE, WINONA. 



My time here has been too short to give a full report of our 

 exhibit, and so I will only tell about my impression of it when I came 

 here. There are 1,200 plates of apples and 90 plates of grapes in the 

 Minnesota exhibit and all very fine fruit. We do not need to be 

 ashamed of our exhibit. There are other states with larger exhibits, 

 but they have only a few varieties. We have the finest Wolf River, 

 N. W. Greening and the best apple seedlings. Our grapes are 

 remarkably fine, which is shown by the fact that a judge one day 



