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More than fifty specimens of garden vegetables have been 
donated from the trial grounds of Messrs. Peter Henderson & Co, 
These were placed, as soon as collected, in a preservative solution, 
They aoe the most important varieties in this department. 
Mr. James A. Staples, of Marlborough, New York, has do- 
nated an ree large collection of domestic fruits, which have 
been pene preserved 
Also erved € same manner are some fifty specimens of 
tropical te collected by the writer in May, 1896, in south- 
eastern Venezuela and in the island of Trinidad, as well as a sim- 
ilar collection from the city of Mexico, collected largely by Mrs. 
Britton, in November of the same year 
collection of eighteen specimens of nuts has been donated by 
the Koerber Nut-meat Company. Two collections of almonds, 
one from Messrs. Lehn & Fink, the other from Messrs. Huyler 
& Co., comprise almost every variety of these seeds. 
Messrs. James Chieves & Co., have contributed a collection of 
eleven varieties of peanuts. 
The New York Board of Trade, through Messrs. McIntyre & 
Wardwell, has contributed a series of seventeen h oecauid of 
sey eae the classification employed by 
From the American Sugar Refineries Co., we eae eee a 
as of thirty-seven samples of sugars, representing all the 
principal crude products which come to this market, and the 
commercial grading of refined sugars. 
t. of Agriculture has contributed seventy-three 
specimens of fodder grasses. 
STARCHES. 
About thirty specimens, representing most of the important 
varieties, has been contributed in exchange by the Field Colum- 
ian Museum of Chicago. 
Five specimens of tapioca have been furnished by Messrs. F. H. 
Leggett & Co. 
BEVERAGES. 
Our most important exhibit in the line of beverages is a series 
of twelve wines, contributed by The H. T. Dewey & Sons Co 
