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from their roots at the surface of the ground in the vineyards, taken 

 from the trellis carefully, boxed and transported to the nursery grounds 

 at the exposition. Here they were placed on a trellis of the same 

 material and style as the one from which taken, and showed precisely 

 as before removal. These vines were from the vineyards of William 

 D. Barnes, of Middle Hope, illustrating the Kniffen system ; from those 

 ■of G. E. Emmerson, of Lockport, illustrating the modified Kniffen 

 system, and from those of G. C. Snow, of Penn Yan, and Eb. G. 

 Coleman, of Bluff Point, illustrating the renewal system. 



A further photographic display was made on eight bj' ten cards of 

 the many varieties of grapes native to the State. 



These were mounted on large cards, twenty-two by twenty-eight, and 

 -exhibited in cabinets. 



Class 120 was well represented by the trellis required for exhibiting the 

 vines described as being placed in the nursery in the preceding class ; 

 the training, by replacing the vines on the trellis in the same position 

 in which they had been trained in the vineyard previous to removal. 



In classes 122 and 123, grapes for table use and wine making, an 

 exhibit was shown which excelled anything of the kind ever made in 

 quality and quantity ; 295 varieties were shown. It would be proper 

 to divide the display in two periods, one of the crop of 1892, and 

 the other the crop of 1893, as the State was awarded a medal 

 and diploma on each. Owing to the lateness of the season at 

 which the work of collection was begun in 1892, most of the varieties 

 wanted had become too ripe to be of value for holding. Three vari- 

 eties, Catawbas, from the vineyard of George S. Sheppard, Dianas, from 

 the vineyards of Harvey D. Pratt, and Isabellas, from the vineyard of 

 Frank Kinyoun, all situated on Bluff Point, Lake Keuka, were selected. 

 They were placed in cold storage at Penn Yan about ISTovember 1, 

 1892, and there held until spring ; about thirty cases in all. Four 

 cases were forwarded by express to the exposition in time for the open- 

 ing. In the meantime, the rest were sent forward by freight and 

 placed in the Cold Storage Building on the exposition grounds, being 

 taken thence to the Horticultural Building as needed. Fresh grapes of 

 the three varieties were exhibited from May first, the opening day, to 

 August first. During a large part of this time there were 150 plates 

 'on exhibition, about evenly divided as to varieties among the above- 

 named. In the fire, which consumed the Cold Storage Building with 

 its contents, on July 12, 1893, eight cases of New York grapes were 

 -destroyed. But for this loss, fresh grapes would have been exhibited 

 in good condition from the beginning to the end of the exposition, 

 from the State of New York. STo room being assigned by the expo- 

 sition authorities for the display of grapes alone, space was, of necessity, 

 used in the pomological department; in consequence of this, a smaller 

 display was made than would have been under other circumstances. 



The crop of 1893 began to arrive on the fifteenth day of August, the 

 first being of the Champion variety, sent by William D. Barnes, of 

 Middle Hope, N. Y. ; others followed in rapid succession from that sec- 

 tion. The State Experiment Station at Geneva, came next, with 

 twenty varieties, on September fourth ; and Mr. G. E. Ryckman, of 



