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Royal Horticultural Society. 



The above sociei. y held t heir biennial winter show 

 on the 22nd and 23rd October al the Royal Dublin 

 Society's premises, Ballsbridge, Dublin. 



It is regrettable that, owing to the unfavour- 

 able spring and earlj summer, the fruit crop 



should be such a | r one in both quantity and 



quality, the weather having done much to pre- 

 vent the fruil from setting and swelling, and fun- 

 goid and inseci pests much to disfigure the fruil 

 and make ii unlit for exhibition purposes. 

 Indeed, it was mooted during the summer 1" the 

 Royal Borticultural Society that it would he 

 wise t>> postpone the show until next year. 

 Owing, however. io the Conference arrangements 

 it was decided to carry out the original proposals. 



Taking t he fruil as a whole, it was by no means 

 so good as in 1911, but it was ever so much better 

 than even the most sanguine expected. 



It is with regret we record that the number of 

 cut lies was not up to former years, hut more than 

 one factor helped in this the cold spring, fruit 

 not swelling and colouring, poor crop in general, 

 ami last, hut not least, many exhibitors would 

 not send up frint. owing to the difficulty of 

 removing i1 from the station Io 1 he show grounds : 

 as it was, a number of good consignments were 

 held up. One \'i\ large one which came in late 

 was staged and judged, special prizes being 

 awarded according t o merit . 



Taking the apples on the whole, they were a very 

 creditable lot. The trade tallies, of which there 

 were three, contained some very good specimens 

 of well-grown and well-coloured fruit, especiallj 

 on the first prize table of R. Eartland & Son. 

 Co.k. 



The single dishes were on the whole a creditable 



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Plant now in the open border for a continuous 

 display of bloom our hardy Perpetual Carnations 

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which they \vi 1 find of immense ra ue and interest 



lot, though there was no competition in the class 

 !'<>■■ Golden Noble. Allington was fairly well 

 shown, and there was good competition and good 

 fruit of Charles Ross, and when we see this apple 

 doing so well in such a bad season, it is un- 

 doubtedly something in its favour. 



Cox's Orange was | c indeed, as was also 



James Grieve. Worcester and Blenheim were 

 good fruits. 



In the lookers, with the exception of Derby, 

 Bramley, Warner's King. Lane's, the old Catshead 

 and Loddington, they were below the average 



size and | r in colour. Thai good fruit is 



being produced in Clare and the Suir Valley was 

 demonstrated by the number of prize winners 

 from t hese dist ricts. 



Pears were p ■ in general, though the six 



dishes of Conference, Magnate. Beurre - Superfin, 

 Beurre Hardy. Beurre Diel, and St. Luke, ex- 

 hibited by Alderman Bewley, were very good. 



There were a few very good dishes in the single 

 dish classes. 



In the bottled fruit section, it would appear 

 thai Mr. Cumrning and Viscounl de Vesci had 

 conspired to win all the prizes, as only one went 

 to any other competitor. This showed good 

 work, and there is a ureal future before the home 

 fruit bottling. 



The apple packing classes were well filled, and 

 the quality of the work done was a decided 

 improvement on any previously seen at an 

 exhibition in Ireland. The chief prize-winners 

 were Mr. Jones Henrj and Mr. Brown, SligO ; 

 Mr. <)I nell and Mr. W. Coffe3 . 



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