A WORD OF COMMENDATION

On the opening day of the Fair, April thirtieth, New York's exhibit of
fruit was complete in every detail. In fact of the thirty-five States,
Canada and Mexico represented, New York was the only State to have its
exhibit installed and ready for exhibition when the doors of the Palace
of Horticulture were thrown open to the public, which called forth a
special word of commendation from the Chief of the Department of
Horticulture, Honorable F. W. Taylor. Owing to the fact that at that
time the other States were not prepared to make a display, it was deemed
inadvisable to exhibit a large number of varieties, so that while the
entire space was covered with fruit, the exhibit consisted of but
thirty-one varieties of apples, ten of pears and three of grapes, as
follows:

Apples: Fallawater, Swarr, Golden Russet, Snow,
Belleflower, Sweet Russet, Cline's Red, Red Rock, Holland
Pippin, Hubbardston Nonesuch, Deacon Jones,
Judson, Sklanka Bog, Peach, Sutton Beauty, Flower of
Genesee, Baldwin, Lady, Kirkland Pippin, Greening,
Spitzenburg, Northern Spy, Walbridge, Seek-no-Further,
McIntosh, Grimes' Golden, Wagener, Mann, Roxbury,
Russet, King, Canada Red
Pears: Kieffer, Duchess, Vergalieu, Josephine, Diel,
Beurre d'Anjou, Beurre Bosc, Lawrence, Mt. Vernon,
Beurre Clairgeau
Grapes: Virgennes, Diana, Catawba