Upon the landscape gardening, which was one of the most admired features of the exposition, was expended the sum of $4,465.75.  The organ case alone cost $3,500.  Including that, the total amount expended for furnishing the State building was $23,423.96.

New York displayed her products in six of the exhibit palaces, namely:  Agriculture, Horticulture, Education, Forest, Fish and Game, Fine Arts, and Mines and Metallurgy.  In addition to this there was a very fine exhibit of live stock.  New York State was the only successful exhibitor of a forest nursery.

It is impossible to give an approximate value of the exhibits.  In the Fine Arts Department, New York had 1,112 out of a total of 3,524 exhibits.  They were selected after very careful scrutiny by a jury appointed by the National Academy of Design, and consisted of oil paintings, mural paintings, water colors, miniatures, illustrations, etchings, engravings, lithographs, wood engravings, sculpture, architecture, and applied arts.

The commission made appropriations for the various exhibits as follows: 

Agriculture and live stock .................... $25,000
Horticulture and floriculture .................  20,000
Forestry, fish, and game ......................  18,000
Fine arts .....................................  10,000
Scientific exhibit ............................   7,500
Education and social economy ..................  27,500

The education exhibit was composite in nature and was subdivided as follows:  Administration, kindergarten, elementary grades, high schools, normal schools, training schools and classes, higher education, industrial and trade schools, special schools, business colleges, Indian schools, schools for defectives, summer schools, and extension schools.

There were exhibits from both the State department of public instruction and the University of the State of New York.  In the public schools exhibit contributions were received from 24 cities and various villages.  There was also a comprehensive exhibit from the rural schools of the State.  In the normal school exhibit contributions were received from every normal school.  The training schools and classes of the State were very generally represented.  Exhibits were in place from Hobart College, Geneva; Manhattan College, New York City; Colgate University, Hamilton, and Syracuse University.  In the schools for defectives there were exhibits from the New York State School for the Blind, Batavia; New York Institution for the Blind, New York City; Western New York Institution for Deaf Mutes, Rochester; New York Institution for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes, New York City, and the New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, New York City.  The exhibit from the Indian schools contained work from all of the seven reservations in the State, and was arranged by the State inspector of Indian schools.