362' MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



No g-eneral description of the hall would be complete without 

 referring to the unique and most attractive exhibit of the Jewell 

 Nursery Company. This consisted of a turret, about nine feet high 

 and eighteen feet in diameter, mounting four guns, all, both turret 

 and guns, being veneered with apples, and resting on a pyramid of 

 shelves some six feet from the floor. The shelves were filled with 

 plates of fruit. This exhibit was thought to be of so much value 

 asan exponent of Minnesota horticulture by the Minnesota Board of 

 Commissioners for the Pan-xA-merican Exposition that they ar- 

 ranged to have it transferred to the exposition at Buffalo, where as 

 this goes to press the turret- is doubtless revolving, telling its tale of 

 the beauties of Minnesota fruit. 



Other nursery displays were made by the Minnetonka Nursery 

 and W. L. Taylor, of Howard Lake. 



Notwithstanding the scarcity of fruit in Minnesota this year 

 that shown was of even a higher quality than that shown the year 

 before, although in numbers of plates it may have fallen off a little. 

 The fruit was not more highly colored, but of larger size, and espe- 

 cially in plums it was an extraordinary display. Grapes were also 

 much better than in the previous year. The mushroom exhibit was, 

 as usual, a very attractive feature of the hall, though it was not as 

 large as in some other years. This was not the fault of the exhib- 

 itors, however, but was owing to climatic conditions peculiarly un- 

 favorable to the development of the mushroom. 



There were shown altogether 3,348 plates of fruit, made up as 

 follows: apples, 2,364 plates; plums, 515 plates; grapes, 454 plates; 

 and a number of plates of peaches and pears. Premiums were of- 

 fered in this department as follows: Apples, $501.25; grapes, 

 $151.00; plums, $136.25; sundries, $16.25; total for fruit, $704.75. 

 Flowers for professionals, $309.50; for amateurs, $52.50; total for 

 flowers, $362.00. Mushrooms, $40.00. 



The published list of the names of the varieties of fruits shown 

 at this fair, following this report, will be found of great interest to 

 those who are keeping posted as to the development of pomology 

 in our state. The total number of varieties in the various classes 

 will doubtless be a surprise to the readers, as it was to the compilers. 

 The details of the work and results in this department are better set 

 forth in this list and in the list of awards, also printed herewith, 

 than they can be in any other way, and to these the reader who is 

 interested to pursue the subject further is referred. 



Many well known horticulturists of the northwest were present 

 at the fair, among whom were Professors N. E. Hansen, of Brook- 

 ings, S. D., and C. B. Waldron, of Fargo, N. D., horticulturists of 



