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all of which made up one largo refrigerator car load. About 

 three weeks from the time of shipment it arrived at San Fran- 

 cisco, when the fruit was again placed in cold storage, where it 

 remained until the exhibit was installed. The excess was left 

 in storage to be drawn upon from time to time as the exhibit 

 required. 



The space allotted to the state of 2s T ew York in the Horticultural 

 Palace, was 40 x ?U feet. The booth was made after the style 

 of a colonial pergola, having large columns, with massive beams 

 and crossbeams and large scroll lattices at either end, artificial 

 grapevines running up and covering the crossbeams with their 



Kic. 1S:J. KXIIIBIT OF XKW YORK APPLES AT THE CHICAGO LAND SHOW, 1913 



autumn-tinted foliage, fruited with variously colored bunches 

 of fruit. Diagonally across each end of the space, and meeting 

 on either side of a mirrored door in -the back, there were built 

 two refrigerator cases, each being twenty feet long and thirteen 

 feet high, with panelled glass fronts seven feet high, the color 

 scheme of the entire booth and cases being cream and apple green. 

 Tn each case there were placed eleven hidden 40-watt electric 

 lamps, which threw a beautiful soft light upon the fruit. 



Tn one case sixty-eight boxes of apples were shown, making 

 seventeen rows four boxes high. In the other there were forty 

 barrel ends, some showing face ends and others showing the tail 



