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| NEW YORK STATE FORESTRY EXHIBIT 
AT THE 
WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, 
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CHICAGO, 1893. 
[From “THE TIMBERMAN,” Chicago, July 1, 1893.] 
The New York Forestry Exhibit 
Is located on the lake front near the south end of the Forestry Building, 
which is near the southeast corner of the Exposition grounds, It comprises: 
(1) a series of photographs of typical, isolated trees in leaf, (2) acompanion 
series of the same trees after the leaves have fallen, (3) natural size photo- 
graphs of typical barks of trees, (4) sections of the wood showing trans- 
verse, radial and tangential views of the grain, and cut so thin as to admit 
light through them, thus revealing beautifully the characteristic structures 
of each timber. (5) Pressed specimens of the leaves, flowers and fruits of 
trees, artificial reproductions being substituted for perishable fruits. The 
above photographs and specimens, so far as they pertain toa certain species, 
are mounted together in a frame between glass and fully labeled with 
technical, Englisn, French, German and Spanish names. The frames are 
themselves an exhibit of New York woods, highly finished as they were de- 
signed and made especially for this exhibit. They are mounted on pivoted 
posts which easily turn so as to facilitate a study of the exhibit. 
The greater part of the 1,566 square feet assigned the state for its ex- 
hibit is occupied by these posts, each displaying four species. Besides 
these, however, it contains, (6) a series of log specimens, each about two 
and a half feet long, and displaying the bark and transverse, radial and 
tangential views of the graiv. The cut surface represents the wood both 
highly finished and unfinished, the former suggesting an ornamental value 
of many of our timbers not appreciated by the public generally. The labels 
with these timbers give information as to their respective distribution and 
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