384 , REPORTS OP FRUIT COMMITTEE, 



TAKD was a splendid bunch, large, long, and tapering, well set 

 ■with berries, which were uniform in size and symmetry, and 

 covered with beautiful bloom. Mr. Hill's was also a very fine 

 buuch, and large for the sort. The berries were large and finely 

 bloomed. In both of these exhibitions the flavour of the sorts 

 was perfect; not a berry was shrivelled, and both had hung 

 since they were ripe in August, 1801. Mr. Tilleey's was also 

 a very fine bunch, and so meritorious were the whole three 

 exhibitions, that the Committee decided to award a Fiest Prize 



. Mr. PoTXLE, The Grove, Little Bealings, Woodbridge, Suflfolk, 

 sent a basket of Early Potatoes, which had been grown in the 

 open air, iit soil known as the Suffolk Crag, which is a mixture of 

 sharp sand, marine shells, pebbles, and other water-drifted 

 matters, to which about one^enth of burnt ashes had been added. 

 The sets were planted on the 17th of October, 1861, and the 

 'crop was ready for use in February of the present year. The 

 potatoes were very fine and perfectly grown, and the Committee 

 awarded Mr. Pottle a Certificate of Commendation. 



Mr. EoBEET OsBOEN i/i tJie Chair, — April 29. 



At this meeting the following prizes were offered: 



A. — For the best and second best three dishes 



of Dessert Apples , . . • 305. lOs. 



B. — Ditto ditto Kitchen Apples . • 205. 10^. 



C. — The best and second best dish of Straw- 



berries, 50 fruits . . . , 905. 10.?. 



D. — For the best three heads of Broccoli , 10s. 

 In Class A, the only exhibitors were Messrs. Ivery & Son, of 



Dorking, who sent Mickleham Pearmain, Herefordshire Pear- 

 main, and Court of Wick. All three varieties were very much 

 shrivelled, and the specimens of Herefordshire Pearmain and 

 Court of Wick were smalL Mickleham Pearmain was very 

 richly flavoured, and is a valuable dessert apple at this season. 

 A Second Prize was awarded to Messrs. Ivery. 



In Class B, there were two competitors : Messrs. Ivehy & 

 Son, and Mr. Hall, gardener to Captain Tyrrell, Fordhook, 



Ealing. 



Norfolk Beefing 



and Bess Pool; and the latter, Frencli Crab, Dumelow's Seed- 

 ling, and Bess Pool. Those of Mr. Hall were all of them fine 

 large well-grown fruit, and to them the First Prize was awarded, 



