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the perfumes of the Adirondacks, a balsam pillow being displayed as a 

 product of that region. 



A fine picture oi a group of Sweet-gum trees grown on New York 

 soil and interesting from association, was hung upon the wall and bore 

 the following label : "Alexander Hamilton brougiit the thirteen trees 

 to New York in 1803 from Mount Vernon, Va., tied under his gig and 

 planted them himself, where they now stand, near the ujiper end of 

 Manhattan Island, on the place known as the Ha'inilton Grange." 



As properly being a portion of New York's contribution to the for- 

 estry display of the exposition, though isolated from the rest 'of the 

 exhibit, was a fine log specimen of the White Pine {Plnus Strobus) 

 placed in the group which formed the central feature in the Forestry 

 Building, and also nine of the trunks which entered into the construc- 

 tion of the imposing colonnade of the building. The latter were 

 located on the west front, and counting from the southwest corner were 

 as follows, commencing with the tenth cluster of three each : Beech, 

 Sugar Maple and Balsam ; eleventh. Hemlock, "White Ash and Black 

 Cherry ; twelfth, "White Birch, White Spruce and Yellow Birch. 



