Red Snip Swallow, cock. Second prize Red Snip Swallow, cock. Third prize Red Snip Swallow, hen. First prize Red Snip Swallow, hen. Second prize Red Snip Swallow, 1904. First prize Red Snip Swallow, 1904. Second prize Any Other Color Snip Swallow, cock. Third prize Any Other Color Snip Swallow, hen. Third prize Full Head White Barred Swallow cock. Second prize Full Head White Barred Swallow, cock. Third prize Full Head White Barred Swallow, hen. First prize Full Head White Barred Swallow, hen. Third prize Full Head White Barred Swallow, 1904. Second prize Full Head White Barred Swallow, 1904. Third prize Yellow Full Head White Barred Swallow, cock. Second prize Yellow Full Head White Barred Swallow, cock. Third prize Yellow Full Head White Barred Swallow, hen. First prize Yellow Full Head White Barred Swallow, hen. Second prize Yellow Full Head White Barred Swallow, 1904. First prize Yellow Full Head White Barred Swallow, 1904. Second prize Roller Parlor Tumblers, cock. First prize Roller Parlor Tumblers, hen. Second prize [Illustration: TRANSPORTATION BUILDING] CHAPTER XII Horticulture Exhibit and Schedule of Awards HORTICULTURE EXHIBIT By CHARLES H. VICK Superintendent of Horticulture [Illustration] At a meeting of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission of the State of New York, held June 10, 1903, Charles H. Vick, of Rochester, N.Y., was appointed as Superintendent of Horticulture, and an appropriation of $15,000 was made for the exhibit in that department. This amount was subsequently increased to $20,000. The work was inaugurated July first, and offices were opened at 46 Elwood building, Rochester, N.Y. METHODS OF SOLICITING FRUIT Many hundred letters were mailed to the fruit growers of the State soliciting the donation of fruit for an exhibit at St. Louis. The number of replies received was so small that it was necessary again to circularize the growers offering to pay a reasonable price for exhibition fruit. Even this offer did not bring forth anything like a sufficient quantity of fruit to make a suitable exhibit. The State was then divided into six sections and competent men appointed to canvass thoroughly each section and buy fruit. A large collection of fine specimens of fruit were procured by this method, and as a result of this canvass exhibits were procured from every fruit growing county in the State. This fruit was all collected at the Gleason cold storage warehouse at Brighton, near Rochester, N.Y., and on December 1, 1903, a shipment of two cars, containing four hundred barrels of apples, fifty-five bushel boxes of pears and forty baskets of grapes were forwarded to the Mound City cold storage warehouse at St. Louis. LOCATION OF EXHIBIT