EEPORT OP FRUIT COMMITTEE, S 



XCIII. -REPOET OF THE FRUIT COMMITTEE, 



Sept. 10th, 1861. 



Mr. Edmonds in the Chair. 



A communication was read from Mr. Bailey, Chairman of the 



Oxfordshire Committee, containing the report of a meeting held 



at Oxford on the 1st of July, which was as follows : — 



the meeting. He said he thought it was their duty not only to notice new 



to call 



the attention of the meeting to a plant of Sir Charles Napier Straw- 



berry, 



and to some specimens of Hautbois ; this last 



kind he said was a 







He believed that the 





^of its failure' generally ^rose from the over 'luxuriance of the male 



plants, 





.le bed, exterminating 



the fer 



lown by him were the ProliEc, the Conical, and the Globe Hautbois; 





wo kinds he had some twenty years ago from the 





cultura 



d Society, at Chiswick, and by care, in propag 







1 Plants, he had succeeded in setting abundant < 



n-ops of good quality. 





To the Sir Charles 



Napier 





I the plant exhibited 





id be seen to be a very fine and productive kind. 





good kind for forcing had been fully established by the exhibitions of Mr. 



Smith, 





much inferior to British Queen. 





