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the success which characterized this exhibit, and we can confi- 

 dently assert that no efforts were spared to keep it up to the 

 proper standard, so far as the almost total failure of the fruit 

 crop permitted. 



The pictures of the exhibit, taken at intervals and repro- 

 duced in this report, give a very correct idea of the appear- 

 ance of the tables of the exhibit as they were during the 

 progress of the Exposition. 



In the following pages is given, briefly, a statement of 

 some advantages which the State of Illinois is possessed of in 

 the line of horticulture. During the progress of the Exposi- 

 tion a pamphlet, of which this is part, was issued, and 60,000 

 copies were distributed to the people of the States and Foreign 

 Countries. 



