lo.-: UKPOilTS OF THE FRUIT CO.MillTTFE. 



gardener to the Hon. T. F. Barixg, Stratton Park, Mitcliel- 

 dever, Hants : Loan's Pearmain, Cockle Pippin, and a sort 

 called American Golden Pippin ; Mr. Johx Hodge, nursery- 

 man, St. Austell, Cornwall: Golden Eussett; Mr. John 

 Pottle, gardener to B, D. Colvin, Esq., the Grove, Little 

 Belings, Woodbridge. Suffolk : White Pippin ; Messrs. Ivebi 

 & Son, Dorking : Miekleham Pearmain ; Mr. Walter Reid, 

 gardener to J. Hunt, Esq., Sydenham Hill, Kent: Lamb Abbey 

 Pearmain, shown as Old Pearmam.—The First Prize was 

 awarded to Richard Webb, Esq., for Cockle Pippin ; the Second 

 Prize to Messrs. Ivery & Son, for Mickleham Pearmain. 



The tree which produced the Mickleham Pearmain is a stan- 

 dard, 50 years old, on the crab stock. It is growing in good, 

 deep, rich loam, on a level, at the foot of the Surrey Hiils. — The 

 Cockle Pippin and American Golden Pippin, from Mr. Churcher, 

 were produced on old standard trees growing in strong loamy clay, 

 18 inches deep, resting on a chalky subsoil; the surface sloping 

 considerably to the north-west. The tree of CocMe Pippin is 

 overgrown with moss, but otherwise tolerably healthy. The fruit 

 produced under these circumstances did not gain the prize. — 

 The fruit exhibited by Mr, Walter Reid under the name of Old 

 Pearmain, proved to be the Lamb Abbey Pearmain. Sydenham 

 Hill where it was grown, was stated to be 400 feet above the 

 level of the sea ; the soil a retentive loam, 3 feet deep, on the 

 London clay. The tree is old and cankered, and is, moreover, 

 injured from being overhung by the branches of an adjoining oak. 

 This is a sound, long- keeping variety. Mr. Reid stated, that it 

 had kept good with him for 18 months.— The White Pippin, from 

 Mr. Pottle, did not prove of good qualit}\ 



Open Class : Kitchen Sorts. — There were several com- 

 petitors in this class ; but the decision upon the merits of the 

 several exhibitions was deferred till the following meeting, in 

 order that the fruit might be baked. 



GRAPES.— A bunch of the Black Barbarossa, and one of 

 Lady Downe's Seedling, were exhibited by Mr. Hill as the 

 two best long-keeping sorts of Grapes iu the collection at Keele 

 Hall. Lady Downe's Seedling was found much better flavoured 

 than the Black Barbarossa. 



CHINESE YAM.— Messrs. Ivery & Sox exhibited a Chinese 

 Yam, the main portion of which was of the usual form, tapering 

 from below upwards ; but from a point near the top several offset 

 tubers from 6 to 8 inches in length had branched out. 



