EEPORT OF THE FRUIT COMMITTEE. 581 



Committee and its recommendation of the subject exhibited, was 

 of equal, if not greater, value than any money award it was in 

 their power to confer. 



Since the discontinuance of the money prizes, the Committee 

 has instituted two certificates, one called the First-Class Cer- 

 tificate, whicli is awarded to' Seedling or newly introduced Fruits 

 or Vegetables, which in the opinion of the Committee are either 

 superior to others of their class, or possess sufficient merit to 

 recommend them for general cultivation. The other is called the 

 Certificate of Commendation, and is given to such exhibitions 

 of older varieties of Fruits or Vegetables as appear to have 

 required superior skill and management in their production. In 

 every instance the use of these two certificates has been found to 

 answer every purpose, and to excjte among exhibitors as much 

 rivalry as was observed when money prizes were awarded. 



The awards that have been made during the past season are 



1860. 



February 7th. — 1st Prize to Mr. Smith, gardener to S. Ricardo, 



Esq., of Sunninghill, for Josephine deMalines Pear 20s. 



2nd Prize to Josiah Moorman, Esq., for Colniar . 10s. 



1st Prize to Mr. Gadd, of Dorking, for Court of Wick 



Apple 20s. 



2nd Prize to Messrs. Ivery, Dorking, for Mickleham 



Pearmain Apple 10s. 



1st Prize to Mr. John Hodge, St. Austell, for Smith's 



Pippin (cooking apple) . . . . .20s. 



2nd Prize to Mr. W. Reid, Sydenham Hill, for Lemon 



Pippin (cooking apple) 10s. 



March 1st.— 1st Prize to Messrs. Ivery, Dorking, for Norfolk 

 Beefing Apple, for cooking .... 20s. 

 2nd Prize to Mr. Whiting, of the Deepdene, for Bed- 

 fordshire Foundling cooking apple . .10s. 

 May 8th. — Certificate of Commendation to Mr. Gardiner, gar- 

 dener to Sir G. R. Phillips, Bart., Weston House, 

 Shipston-on-Stour, for a dish of Forced Peaches. 

 June 12th. — 1st Prize to Messrs. Small, of Colnbrook, for 

 Ingram's Prince Arthup Strawberry . . 2Cs. 

 July 10th.— 1st Prize to Mr. Charles Turner,' for the best collec- 



