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not have reached the size in many cases, on account of being 

 grown in sod rather than in cultivated land. The judging of 

 the Baldwins there was quite a task. There were five premiums. 

 After the judges placed the blue ribbons they were obliged to 

 remove them by our request on account of the apples having on 

 the blow end of them the San Jose scale, every specimen con- 

 taining some of this scale. That was strictly excluded from 

 our exhibit whenever detected. The judges had overlooked the 

 fact, and had to remove all the ribbons and replace them again. 

 That was done on the state exhibit in Connecticut in the same 

 way after the ribbons had been placed. After that the judges 

 were more careful where they placed the blue ribbons, so far 

 as the San Jose scale, or oyster-shell scale was concerned, I 

 found the oyster-shell scale on some Maine apples. Look out 

 for it. 



Here is a comparison of the largest apple and the smallest, the 

 largest measuring about seventeen inches in circumference, the 

 smallest about a quarter of an inch in diameter. The smallest 

 apple shown there was taken from a tree that was brought in in 

 a flower pot, and I will show you later on a dwarf pear, a tree 

 that was grown in the same way, only the fruit is a little larger. 

 The large apple is the Wolf River. 



The next view shows one of the special baskets of fruit that 

 took a blue ribbon. In that room marked "G" there were a 

 large number, some thirty or more, fancy baskets of fruit. We 

 also see some of the finest grapes that were exhibited at the 

 show. There were i6i plates of grapes exhibited. 



We here see one of the cups presented by the International 

 Fruit Growers' Association, and Governor Dresser's cup, a 

 seventy-five dollar cup, that was given for the best display of 

 Baldwins. 



As we enter the other main room from the one I have just 

 shown you, we come to the exhibit now on the screen. To the 

 right you will see a portion of the bank of Maine apples. In 

 the center you notice the immense apple, made onto a frame 

 work and covered with crab apples. The school children of 

 the city were allowed to come in each day between the hours of 

 ten and eleven, free, and men distributed apples to each of 

 these school children. I heard some of the remarks made by 

 those children as they came and looked into this room. "Why," 

 they said, "what an immense lot of cranberries it took to cover 



