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FRUITS. 
Shelving to hold 500 glass cans and 1500 plates of fruit. The cans to be 
filled with specimens of all kinds of fruits. Fresh fruits as follows: Straw- 
berries, 300 plates; raspberries, 300 plates; currants and gooseberries, 100 
plates; blackberries, 200 plates: plums, 100 plates; grapes, 500 plates; 
cranberries, 50 plates: blueberries, etc., 50 plates; apples, 500 plates: 
crabs and seedling apples, 200 plates; cherries, pears, etc., etc. Wire work 
for fruit pieces. ‘Total estimate cf cost for fruit exhibit, $6,700. 
VEGETABLES. 
Shelving, same amount as for fruits and; 200 glass cans. Exhibit of fresh 
vegetables. Total cost of vegetable exhibit estimated at $2,375. Labor 
and incidentals, $5,925. Total estimate for horticultural exhibit as sub- 
mitted, $15,000. 
This estimate was submitted to the commission with the following ex 
planations, ‘‘It is impossible to make anything like an accurate estimate 
of the expense of this exhibit. It involves an infinite amount of detail 
to get together from all parts of the state the great number of varieties 
of fruit and vegetables for canning and for exhibition in a fresh condition 
during the exposition, all of which means outlay which cannot be counted 
beforehand with any exactness. 
‘Still in our judgment this amount will pay the expense for an exhibit 
that will do us credit and make a satisfactory showing of the really 
superb quality of fruit and vegetables grown in our state. With 
strangers there is a general belief that ours is an arctic region, well 
suited to the growing of wheat and the storing of ice. The display in 
full variety of our splendid horticultural products, most of which can 
really be grown upon every farm of the state, is certain to arouse more 
interest than the display of other very important agricultural products 
more generally known to be raised, and will exercise a great influence 
in creating the favorable impression towards Minnesota as a home, 
which is largely the object sought in making an exhibit on this occasion. 
‘““The money put into this exhibit will be sure to bring large returns and 
we trust your commission may see fit to give us the opportunity to make 
a display that Minnesota will not be ashamed to place alongside that of 
any other state in the north.” 
On Dec. 30th, at the request of Secretary Reeve, I drew up a formal 
application for 3.600 sq. ft. of Space in the horticultural building, to be 
used for an exhibit of fruit and vegetables. This was accompanied by a 
sketcb of a possible division of the space, which upon farther study it 
may seem best to change in part or entirely. The sketch provides for a’ 
tract 60 ft. square with walks around the outside,and walks 10 ft. wide 
through the centre in both directions. It allows fora stand eight ft. 
in diameter for a fruit piece in the center where the walks cross and in 
each of the four quarters of the tract as sub-divided, an arrangement of 
shelving sloping gradually upward from the center so as to show.at a 
glance all our entire exhibit. Arches thrown across the entrances might 
be inscribed with appropriate mottoes like the one so useful at our state 
fair ‘‘This Fruit was Grown in Minnesota.” ‘The details of this outline 
plan have not yet been worked out. 
So far, no space has been applied for outside the horticultural building 
for an exhibit of shrubs, trees, flowers, etc., and perhaps it may be 
thought best by the commission not to make such an exhibit. 
