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With so much focus on what was new at the 2016 New York State Fair, there probably wasn’t enough praise for traditional favorites. huge-pumpkins-16Once again this year, the Horticulture Building proved that it’s not only a glorious, historic structure, it also houses displays of beauty and excellence as well as vendors stocked with New York’s finest products.

While the potato booth was in a new spot, the maple and honey exhibits were changed and the Fair’s first kosher food stand moved in, look-at-bees-16the Hort remains an anchor of the grounds and a reliable top performers when it comes to flowers and vegetable shows, educational displays on products grown and produced in the Empire State and unusual spots for dining or relaxing.

The popular butterfly blue-butterfly-16tent was refreshed as some exotic foreign breeds were imported.