116 New Yoek at the World's Columbian Exposition. 



them are to stand comparison with the very best which the country has to 

 show. From its cereal crop to its tobacco, from the beans in whose pro- 

 duction it excels all the rest of the Union to its hops, its flax and its 

 grasses, New York's display of agricultural wealth has been among the 

 surprises of the exposition. 



In the Agricultural Building New York has also made a unique exhibit 

 of apiculture. Here may be found several colonies of bees actively 

 at work and passing in and out of the building to bring their spoil from 

 the flowers of the Wooded Island, or of the parks and flelds far beyond 

 the limits of the exposition. Here, too, ra.ay be seen the fruit of the 

 labors of the bee from the comb all through the series of its ingenious 

 conversions into articles of food or medicine. As the greatest dairy State 

 in the Union New York has an exhibit commensurate with the import- 

 ance of its butter and cheese product, and the 9,000,000 pounds of its 

 annual wool clip do not lack adequate representation. The native and 

 naturalized trees of this State have never been shown as they are here. 

 It is equal to an education in forestry to study the transverse, radial and 

 tangential sections of the trees of New York represented by 106 species 

 and illustrated by photographs and pressed or artificial specimens of leaf- 

 age, flower and fruit. And if the pre-eminence of New York in the pro- 

 duction of fruit and flowers has ever been doubted, it will not again be 

 called in question after seeing the long procession of her garden, green- 

 house and orchard growths, which has unfolded itself here from week to 

 week and month to month. In the scope, beauty and extent of its floral 

 display New York has been admittedly first among the States. It has 

 planted an old-fashioned flower garden and it has made a fine orchid dis- 

 play. From the great bay trees at the main entrances of the horticultural 

 building to the aquatic plants in the basin of the fountain, from the fancy 

 beddings which it has kept filled at the side of the building to the roses 

 and rhododendrons on the Wooded Island, New York is represented every- 

 where that there is foliage or bloom in the beautiful park before us. Of 

 all the fruits grown in this country, save only the semi-tropical kinds. New 

 York has shown a greater number of varieties than any other State, and 

 of grapes and their products it has made a showing worthy of a Common- 

 wealth whose grape crop has a higher cash value than that of any other in 

 the Union. 



Though New York does not rank as a mining State its mineral pro- 

 ducts are rich and varied. Its clay alone supplies the raw material for a 

 brick industry worth $8,500,000 a year. Neither money nor pains have 

 been spared to make an adequate display in the department of mines and 

 mining, and the State has installed in its pavilion here a very fine exhibit 



