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and they were, moreover, perfectly melting and had acquired i 

 high flavour for that variety. The Vauquelin -was produced, as 

 Mr. Whiting stated, to show its utter worthlessness. 



Open Class: Dbssekt Soets. — The exhibitors were: Mr. 

 Smith, gardener to S. Eicardo, Esq. ; Lamb Abbey Pearmain; 

 Messrs. Ivery & Son, Dorking : Wheeler's Russet, Mickleham 

 Pearmain; Mi-.Spivey: Court-pendu Plat; Mr. Gadd, Dorking: 

 Mickleham Pearmain, Court of Wick, also sent as Golden 

 Harvetj ; Mr. J. B. Whiting : Ribstott Pippin; Mr. T. Stewart, 

 gardener to Sir T. Winnington, Bart., M.P., Stanford Court, 

 near Worcester : Wyken Pippin, sent as Onion Apple.— The 

 First Prize was awarded to Mr. Gadd, for Court of Wick; and 

 the Second Prize to Messrs. Ivert & Son, for Mickleham 

 Pearmain. 



The Iamb Abbey Pearmain, from Mr. Smith, was very in- 

 ferior in flavour, as also, was the Wheeler's Russet. The Conrt- 

 pendu Plat was superior to the preceding, but still defective, as 

 was the Ribston Pippin. The Wyken Pippen was tolerably 

 well flavoured ; but all were inferior to the Court of Wick, exhi- 

 bited by Mr. Gadd, under the name of Golden Harvey, and to 

 the Mickleham Pearmain, from Messrs. Ivery. Kespecting this 

 latter, Mr. Whiting sent the following note : — " An apple having 

 been exhibited at a late meeting (see p. 152) by Messrs. Ivery, ^f 

 Dorking, under the name of Mickleham Pearmain, I think it 

 advisable to apprise the Committee that this is only a provincial 

 one_, which appears to have originated in the following manner : 

 About 47 years ago, a gardener named Skeet took an inn, called 

 the Running Horse, at Mickleham ; and this apple it is believed 

 was found growing in the garden there, and was propagated and 

 distributed by him. From this circumstance it was called by 

 some Skeet's Pearmain, and by othere Mickleham Peannain. I 

 am informed it is sometimes called Claygate Pearmain.'^ Two 

 distinct varieties of Pearmain are cultivated in this neighbour- 

 hood, one of them being known by one or other of the above 

 names, the other by that of Traveller Pearmain. I am disposed 

 to think Mr, Ivery'g apple is the one known here as Traveller 

 Pearmain, but at present I have not the means of ascertaining 

 the fact." 



* Clmjgate Pearmain is a very distmcfe variety.— E. H. 



