STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 163 



1870. 



Fortune favored us in every respect from the time our fruit left 

 Xake City till the exhibition was done. The fruit arrived at 

 Philadelphia promptly and in good condition. I could not help 

 comparing this good luck with the misfortune of some other 

 exhibitors from distant points, who spent a good share of their 

 time running to the express offices and back and telegraphing to 

 hear from their fruit, which arrived only by piecemeal, when it 

 did come, and some packages not at all, and some in broken pack- 

 ages and in bad order. Ample room had been reserved for our dis- 

 play by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society in their spacious 

 hall, by whom also an abundance of plates and dishes, both great 

 and small, was supplied, together with all the help needed to 

 put it up. A bushel each of the Duchess and Wealthy 

 was placed side by side at the centre of the main table assigned us, 

 and the rest of the apples were so arranged so as to give the best 

 effects as to contrast in color, and ranging in size from the larger 

 ones at the center down to the crabs, through all their grada- 

 tions, to the ends of the tables. The grapes and plums occupied a 

 side table near by. Over all were hung printed placards bearing 

 the words : 



Minnesota -t- ^tate <• HorticuIf!ui«aI <• ^ocietil. 



740 Varieties of Apples and 30 of Grapes. 



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