07t> REPORT OF i'RUJT COilMITTEE, SEPT. Ill, 1861. 



freely from the stone, round which it is perfectly pale, or with 

 only the feintest rosy tinge. The flavour is exceUent. The 

 leaves are crenate with kidney-shaped glands. Mr. Kiveks also 

 exhibited fruit of Crawford's Early, a very large yellow-fleshed 

 American variety, of fine flavour. It is a very showy fruit, and 

 well worthy of cultivation. Berger's Yellow is another of the 

 same race, and also of American origin. It is of great size, and 

 resembles Crawford's Early in its yellow flesh, but was not so 

 highly flavoured. Grosse Migaonne tardive is a late form of 

 Grosse Mignonne, and a very fine peach, as is also Princess 

 Marie, both exhibited by Mr. Eivers. 



The object of greatest interest at the meeting was a Seedhng 

 Nectarine from Mr. Rivers, called Victoria. It was raised from 

 Violette Hative, fertilised by Stanwick, and the result of the 

 cross is a perfect hybrid. In its general appearance it is like the 

 Stanwick, and it possesses the same rich and peculiar flavour, but 

 it ripens a month earlier, and does not crack in ripening, as that 

 variety does. It has the flowers and leaves of its male parent, 

 and the bitter kernel of Violette Hative, than which it is about a 

 fortnight later. In this there is the beginning of a new race of 

 Nectarmes, altogether distinct from those which have been so 

 many years in cultivation, and now that the Stanwick strain has 

 been broken into, it is not unreasonable to expect that Nectarines 

 of different seasons of ripening will be produced. The Com- 

 mittee awarded it a Fibst-class Certificate. Mr. Eivers ex- 

 hibited a Seeding from the New White Nectarine, which was 

 richly flavoured, and also one called the Pine Apple, which was 

 not sufiiciently ripe. 



GEosaE F WiLSox, Esq., of Gishurst Cottage, Weybridge, 

 sent a dish of Louise Bonne of Jersey Pear, remarkable for their 

 size and beauty. They were grown in a pot in an orchard house, 

 and the trees removed to the open air during the summer months. 

 ^nc +^^;i„-. i..__ ery juicy, and richly flavoured 



Peai-s. 



Messrs. Garawat & Co., of Bristol, sent a Seedling Pear 

 which was raised by A. H. Bennett. Esq., of Bennett's Court, 

 yueenstown. It was of small size, pyriform, with a tender, melt- 

 ing. and sweet flesh ; but being a late summer pear, ripening when 



