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The Exhibition, 
From a horticultural stand-point, was a complete success, and too much cannot 
‘pe said in its praise. Its excellence consisted not only in the quantity, quality 
and appearance of the exhibits, but even in the perfectness of the specimens. 
States Represented by their Fruits. 
ODAlabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indi- 
ana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, 
Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and Virginia. 
Awards. 
DThe list of awards would be too lengthy to report in full. The aggregate 
amount was $2,040. 
The Attendance. 
Although the exhibition was a grand success, the attendance was not flatter- 
ang. St. Louis is evidently not a horticultural city; her citizens bemg engaged 
principally in other pursuits, devote but little time to the study of fruits and 
flowers. The receipts netted but little more than the expenses, and but for the 
liberality of Pres. Smith and Hon. Geo. Bain, who not only gave us the use of 
their splendid hall in the Merchants Exchange, but also guaranteed that if the 
receipts of the exhibition did not reach $3,000 they would make up the deficit, 
the premuims could not have been made. 
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Object Lessons. 
There is no way in which progressive horticulture can so well be taught as by 
object lessons; indeed, we should be unable from any description of or represen- 
tation of fruits to form a correct estimate of the character or relative value of one 
kind to that of another, or even of the same kind when grown under different 
conditions of climate, soil, or cultivation. Such facts can only be drawn out by 
arranging the different classes and specimens of fruit before the eye, the taste, 
the touch and placing their merits in the scales of equal justice. At the exhibi- 
tion held at St. Louis, the fruits of the fngid north and tropical south met to em- 
brace each other, giving in one tereoscopic view the horticultural resources of the 
great Mississippi vailey. 
Observations and Conclusions. 
First. Most of the early fruits that were sent forward to be kept in cold stor- 
age spoiled. The proper conditions for keeping was either not understood or 
observed. . 
Second. In looking over the collections of apples, I noticed that those grown 
south of the 42d parallel were exceedingly fine, while those grown north were 
