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The exhibit was contributed by the following growers of the State: 
S. B. GREEN, - - . - St. Anthony Park. 
Pet ve BRRY, - - - - Excelsior. 
Mrs. I. BURTON. - - - Excelsior. 
CHARLES W. SAMPSON, - 2 - Excelsior. 
Mrs. S. IRWIN, - - - - Excelsior. 
A. W. LATHAM, - - - - Excelsior. 
Ee CRANE: -= : E : Excelsior. 
De Bick, = - - - - Mankato. 
EK. J. CUTTS, - - - Howard Lake. 
Signed: SYLVESTER JOHNSON, 
Approved: B. STARRATT, Individual Judge. 
President Departmental Committee. 
12386, Group, 21. Class, 133. 
Exhibit, POMACEOUS AND STONE FRUITS. 
Award.—Apples.—(Crop of 1892.) A fine display consisting of 
twenty-eight varieties, tastefully exhibited in a refrigerator case. 
The fruit is highly colored, of good flavor and quite free from insect 
and other blemishes. The nomenclature is perfect. Several new 
varieties of excellent quality are shown, which apparently are very 
promising. 
Apples.—(Crop of 1893.) A large collection consisting of fifty-nine 
varieties, all of which are of the best kinds grown in the state. 
Many new and valuable kinds are shown. The fruit is uniform in 
size, beautiful in color and free from insect and other blemishes. 
(Signed), KE. F. BABCOCK. 
Stone Fruits.—A fine display consisting mainly of plums and 
peaches. The special feature of the exhibit is the new seedling 
varieties of plums contributed by D. Cook of Windom and O. M. Lord 
of Minnesota City. All the varieties are of good size, color and flavor 
and in excellent condition. (Signed), GEORGE I. Morz. 
Approved: B. STARRATT, 
President Departmental Committee. 
Approved: JOHN BoyD THACHER, 
Chairman Executive Committee on Awards 
Dated, May 16, 1894. 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBIT AT THE COLUMBIAN 
EXPOSITION. 
(The following letter from Mr. J. M. Samuels, chief of the horticul- 
tural department at the World’s Fair, will be of interest to many of 
our readers on account of its reference to his report and other 
matters. Every contributor to ourexhibit, atleast, should plan to 
secure one of the reports referred to. A. W, LATHAM.) 
CLINTON, Ky., Jan. 21, 1805. 
Mr. A. W. LATHAM, Minneapolis Minn., 
DEAR SIR: 
I finished and submitted my report last April. It contained 2,900 
pages of ordinary manuscript; but the editing committee considered 
