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(2). On the structure. (This award was the onl^^ one of the kind 

 in the horticultural department, and a special class was created on 

 account of it). 



(3). On raspberries, crop of 1893. 



(4). On plums, crop of 1893. 



(.t). On grapes, crop of 1893. 



(6). On apples, crop of 1893. 



Only two awards were inade to individuals, both on plums; namely^ 

 to Mr. Dewain Cook of Windom and Mr. O. M. Lord of Minnesota 

 City. A great many others were deserving of notice, but the practice 

 of the department previously referred to barred them. 



A large proportion of the contributors asked for no compensation, 

 and only in the case of those who shipped large quantities was any 

 payment made. The prices asked were uniformlj^ reasonable and 

 often below the actual-value to the grower. In so far a§ our exhibit 

 was a success the credit is certainly due largely to the members of 

 this society, and, in closing, I wish to acknowledge in the most 

 earnest manner the hearty and ungrudging support tendered me, 

 without exception, by its officers and members. President Under- 

 wood gave much time and thought to this work; the executive 

 committee held several meetings in connection therewith, and^ 

 in waj^s innuinerable, the chairman of the board, Mr. Wyman Elliot, 

 aided by his counsel and encouragement in its prosecution. 



DISCUSSION. 



(Following the reading of above report.) 



Remarks by C. McC. Reeve, Secretary of the Minnesota Board of 

 "World's Fair Managers. 



Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen : I do not know that 

 anything I can say in regard to the work accomplished at the 

 World's Fair in the horticultural department of the state of Minne- 

 sota will give 3^ou any better idea than you have received from the 

 very full and, I inust say, altogether too modest report of jour sec- 

 retary, to which we have just had the pleasure of listening-. But I 

 can say this, which he apparently was unwilling to saj', that from, 

 the time the first steps were taken here in the state to prepare this 

 exhibit up to the time when the last case of goods was packed and 

 shipped out of Chicago, Minnesota did not do anything in the same 

 way that any other state had done or presuined to do. In the first 

 place, without coinplaining as to the amount of money which you 

 were to receive from the state commission, 3'our executive commit- 

 tee went ahead and pursued the line of work that had been author- 

 ized, and asked us to throw out such suggestions as we wished to 

 make in regard to this exhibit. Of course, this was verj' compli- 

 mentary to us, and when Mr. Underwood and j^our secretary came 

 to our office and said, "We think we had better make this exhibit in 

 soinething like this inanner," and it was left for us to say what they 

 should do, I did not have any clear idea of the plan they proposed,, 

 but I was satisfied it was all right; and when I was called upon to 

 report what was being done, I said their work was all right. I had 



