REPORTS OF THE FRUIT COMMITTEE. 



3 furnished with reniform glands. 

 I not very good ; but it was thought that in better 

 seasons the quality would be much improved, and Mr. Salter 

 was recommended to bring it forward again next year. 



GRAPES. — From Messrs. Backhouse & Son, York : a seed- 

 ling raised by J. B. Faviell, Esq., Stockeld Park, near 

 Wetherby. It was reported as being an abundant bearer requir- 

 ing heat, a good setter, hanging well, shouldering well, and having 

 long pendent bunches. It was raised from the Canon Hall 

 Muscat impregnated with Boyal Muscadine. In the specimens 

 exhibited, the bunches were 9 inches long, tapering, and 

 shouldered ; berries quite round, nearly oblate, rather large, and 

 borne on very long slender stalks, which gave the bunch a loose 

 appearance; skin thin, greenish-white, transparent, covered with 

 a very thin bloom, and showing distinct dark veins running 

 through it; flesh firm and crackling, very juicy, quite acid. 

 Some of the berries on one bunch were shrivelled, and these had 

 a somewhat sugary flavour. In the opinion of the meeting, this 

 was not a grape of great merit ; but considering the unfavourable 

 season, which might have had an influence upon it, the Secretary 

 was requested to ask that it might be sent again next year. 



PLUMS.— From Mr. James Knight, gardener, at Langley 

 Priory, near Loughborough: Lucom.be s Nonsuch. — From F. 

 J. Gbaham, Esq., Cranford : a dish of very handsome Kirke's 

 Plum, which were cracked in consequence of the excessive rains 

 of the past summer.— From E. Frankum, Esq., Woolhampton : 

 Denyer's Victoria. 



RASPBERRY.— From F. J. Ghaham, Esq. : shoots of a 

 promising double -bearing sort, of which it was arranged that 

 fruit should be brought again later in the season. 



BEAN.— From Mr. Thompson, gardener to the Right Hon. 

 the Earl of Stamfoed and Wabrington, Enville : specimens of 

 a singular-looking Bean, called Tow-cock, the produce of 

 Dolichos sinensis. The pods were slender, terete, varying from 

 27 to 33 inches long, and borne in pairs ; they were in appear- 

 ence transparent and tender. The native country of this plant 

 is the hottest part of China, and therefore it cannot be use- 

 fully cultivated out of doors in England ; but in great gardens, 

 like that at Enville, it might be grown under glass as a 

 rarity. The specimens exhibited were the produce of Chinese 

 seeds, sold at Steven's auction rooms during the past spring. 



