26 EEPOETS OP THE FRUIT COMMITTEE. 



three feet deep, on a gravelly subsoil. The tree is a half-standard, 

 in healthy condition, grafted on the peaf stock, and about fifteen 

 years old. It is trained downward in the form of an umbrella. 

 As a standard production, the fruit was very good. 



Mr. W. Masterson described the surface of the ground to be 

 hilly ; the soil light and sandy ; the tree young, and allowed to 

 grow without pruning. The fruit, also from a standard, was not, 

 however, equal in appearance and quality to that grown on a 

 standard near London. 



Mr. Catt stated, that the garden at Welwyn is situated on an 

 exposed table-land ; the soil, strong loam eighteen inches deep, 

 cool, and moist; the subsoil clay on challi. The tree, twelve 

 years old, is healthy, and extends twelve feet by eighteen feet on 

 a south wall, against -which it is fan-trained ; it is pruned at mid- 

 summer and in autumn. Although grown in a south aspect, the 

 fruit was not equal in quality to that from a standard, in deep 

 soil, near Clapham, on the south side of the Thames. 



Mr. J. Clark stated, that the surface of the ground at Cobham 

 Hall is undulating ; the soil a strong loam, on the chalk. The 

 fruit was produced by a large old tree, not very vigorous, on an 

 east aspect wall ; and was gathered in the first week of October. 

 This exhibition consisted of fair specimens as regards size and 

 appearance ; the fruit, having been grown against an east wall, 

 was, however, much inferior as regards quality to that produced, 

 also in Kent, but against a south wall, by Mr. Cox. 



Mr. D, JuDD, whose locality is described at p. 21, stated that 

 the tree which bore the fruit exhibited, is healthy and upwards 

 of 20 years old ; eight years ago it was root-pruned ; it is trained 

 against a wall sixteen feet high, with a south-east aspect; the 

 shoots are shortened in summer, and pruned "back to short spurs 

 in winter. The season, it was remarked, was dry and hot, and the 

 fruit ripened earlier than usual. The specimens were well-grown, 

 and next in quality to those which gained the second prize. It 

 may be remarked, that the wall against which the fruit was pro- 

 duced is 16 feet high, which is considerably above the usual 

 height of garden walls, and doubtless an advantageous circum- 

 stance. If the aspect had been full south, instead of south-east, it 

 is probable this exhibition would have obtained one of the awards. 



Mr. J. Douglas stated, that the garden at Babworth Hall has 

 a south exposure ; the surface of the locality is undulating ; the 

 soil light, dry, and early ; subsoil gravel, or red sand. The soil 

 of the borders, in which the trees that produced the fruit exhi- 



