138 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



My experience at small fairs has been that oddities, novelties, most 

 any thing queer or strange, attract the most attention, and even a 

 statue, made entirely of vegetables, is a wonder. Even the best of an 

 article will not attract attention unless arranged with proper taste and 

 order. 



THE FORESTRY EXHIBIT AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



J. O. BARRETT, SECRETARY MINNESOTA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



Never in human history was a public enterprise of so gigantic magni- 

 tude and so far reaching and beneficent in its educative influences, work- 

 ing international unity and peace, as the World's Columbian Exposition. 

 It is the work of the brain and heart of the American Republic, trans- 

 formed into an invite for all races and nations to representatively assemble 

 in Chicago this very year to view the wondrous mechanism and develop- 

 ment of the age in which we live, and to council together how to bring 

 humanity into closer fellowship and co-operative interest. 



In this grand illustration of a world's common civilization, 'and in the 

 sisterhood of states, Minnesota has the position to which she is entitled 

 to picture in practical form her immeasurable resources of wealth and 

 her advance along the inventive and industrial lines. Conspicuous in her 

 exhibit, as a co-factor, is forestry. For its success theo state commission- 

 ers have been liberal to the best of their means. 



A lively interest is manifested by lumbermen, horticulturists, pomolog- 

 ists and lovers of sylvan culture generally. 



In accordance with the recommendation of our association, the writer 

 was appointed superintendent with C. L Smith, assistant. We shall ex- 

 hibit in practical form all the principal species and varieties of our native 

 and planted timber trees, both indigenous and non-indigenous, adapted 

 by experimentation to the climate; also, a goodly display of shrubs, vines, 

 flowers and mosses from different parts of the state. Our department, 

 like the rest, will be educative as well as attractive in all its phases, and 

 we can reasonably anticipate that it will be a credit to Minnesota. 



