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9. Photographs of forest scenery; also, of hotels in the Adirondack 

 and Catskill regions indicating the summer hotel business in these forests. 



10. A small forest tree nursery located outside the Forestry Building, 

 near its principal entrance, in which was shown the process of raising trees 

 from seed, transplanting the seedlings into nursery beds, and thence into 

 a miniature plantation. Young plants of the principal species raised in 

 forest tree nurseries, coniferous and broadleaved, were exhibited in seed- 

 beds; also, in beds of four- year-old transplants, and in a plantation of 

 six-year-old trees set out at spaces five feet apart. The germination in 

 the seed beds was very satisfactory, the seeds having been planted early 

 in the spring, before the Exposition opened. The seedlings and transplants 

 maintained a thrifty condition, and made the usual growth during the 

 summer. This nursery exhibit, under the management of Forester Knechtel 

 was a gratifying success, attracting the favorable attention of the foresters, 

 nurserymen, and botanists, who visited it in large numbers. At the close 

 of the Exposition the plants were taken up and shipped to the Saranac 

 Nursery. 



The Fish and Game Department of the Commission was represented by 

 a collection of mounted specimens showing the fur, fin and feather of New 

 York. The display of mounted fish, including all the species found in the 

 waters of this State, and made under the direction of Mr. John D. Whish, 

 Secretary of the Commission, was shown in twelve cabinets constructed 

 for this purpose. The specimens of animals and birds collected by Mr. 

 Strough and arranged attractively by a taxidermist, were exhibited by 

 placing the small birds in cabinets and the large ones on trees, while the 

 larger animals — bear, wolf, panther, deer, fox, otter, beaver, etc. — were 

 placed in suitable positions at convenient points within the enclosure. 

 The mounted wolf was the last of its species in New York, and the same 

 is probably true of the panther shown in this collection. An attractive 

 feature of the fish and game exhibit was a typical hunter's cabin of the better 

 class, built of logs with a roof of spruce bark. This building was erected 

 first in the Adirondacks at Big Moose, after which it was taken down, the 

 logs numbered, and shipped to St. Louis, together with the rustic fence of 

 white cedar which enclosed the space allotted to the Commission. The 

 furniture in the cabin, including a bed and lounge, was of a handsome and 



