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WORKS OF AET. 



Collection of paintings of Minnesota fruits and flowers, Mrs. West 1st $5 00 



Single fruit painting, Mrs. H. B, Sargeant 1st 3 00 



Single fiuil painting, Mrs W- W. ^Folwell 2d 2 00 



SEEDS. 



Collection of Minnesota-grown garden seeds, E. Webster 1st 6 00 



Following the awards of premiums, the committee submitted 

 the following special report: 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EXHIBITS. 



Your committee on exhibits and awards at this meeting would 

 submit the following: 



1st. We find about fifty varieties of home grown apples and 

 Siberians on exhibition, which in point of all the essential qualities 

 of size, beauty and flavor, are of superior excellence, and would do 

 honor to the winter exhibit of any Western States, and are very 

 encouraging to the Pomologists of this State. 



2d. We find worthy of special mention, the exhibits of new 

 varieties, seedlings of this and other states, with some of the new 

 Russians, of great beauty and excellence, among which we notice 

 the collections of Andrew Peterson, of Wauconia, and Charles 

 Ludluff, of Carver, which are a lesson worthy of careful study by 

 our members. We also would mention the show of Wolf River 

 and Northwestern Greening, from Wisconsin, which promise 

 especial merit to this State, Also the spicy seedling of William 

 Forster, of Chatfield. 



3d. We also would give special mention of the wondrous imita- 

 tions of nature in the fruit and flower pieces on exhibition from 

 our home artists, Mrs. West, Mrs. Sargent and Mrs. Folwell, which 

 are " true to life," and worthy of a place in every collection of home 

 decorations, and especially worthy for the educational effect upon 

 the people. 



J. C. PLUMB, 

 F. G. GOULD, 

 E. D. PORTER, 



Committee. 



Messrs. Plumb and Gould of the above committee, also reported 

 •complimenting the handsome exhibit of forty varieties of potatoes 

 grown at the State University farm, under the charge of Prof. 

 Porter. 



