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crimson. Roots 9| inches ; crown tapering; flesh bright light 

 purplish crimson, alternating with white zones. When baked, it 

 wag found to be similar in quality to Bang's Crimson. 



Cattel's Dwarf Blood-Red .... Lee. 

 Syn : Josling's Scarlet .... Josling. 



Leaves erect, 15 inches high, narrow and elongated, purplish, 

 with a tinge of green. Root 10| inches in circumference. Flesh 

 wanting in crispness in its raw state ; when baked, coarse and 

 very inferior. 



Low's True Dwarf Red Veitch. 



Leaves about a foot high. Root 8^ inches in circumference ; and 

 standing as much as 3 inches above ground. When baked it 

 proved very deficient in flavour. 



Josling's Improved Scaxlet .... Josling. 



The quality of the variety grown under this name proved to be 

 very inferior. 



XXIV.-^EEPORTS^ OF THE FRUIT COMMITTEE. 



January 17, 1860. (8, St. Martin's P?ac^).— The Rev. L. Vernon 



10s. for the second best dish of each of the following kinds of 



Peaes. 



Ne Plus Menris.— The competitors were Josiah Moorman, 

 Esq., 1, Portland Place, Ciapham Road; Mr. A. Ingram, 

 gardener to J.J. Blandt, Esq., V.P.H.S., High Grove, Reading ; 

 Mr. Emanuel Sage, gardener to the Right Hon. the Earl H0W£, 

 F.H.S., Gopsall Hall, near Atherstone, Leicestershire; Vincent 

 Fenn, Esq.— The First Prize was awarded to Mr. A. Ingram. 

 The other exhibitions were not sufllciently ripe, and therefore no 

 second prize was awarded. 



The specimens ^thibited by Mr. A. Ingram were produced on 



