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Peach, a variety raised at that place, and which is remarkable 

 for its earliness and the ease with which it is forced. The fruit 

 were of good size, and very well coloured, and the flavour for 

 forced fruit so earlylii the season was remarkably good. The 

 Committee unanimously awarded the^ Fiest Pkize to this exhi- 

 bition. In a communication received from Mr. Carmichael, he 

 says ; 



- "As a proof of its value for early forcing, I may state that, in 

 1859, the fruit was ripe on the 20th of May; in 1861, on the 

 pth of Ma}^ and this season, on the 33rd of ApriK The tree, 

 which nearly fills one house, hears large crops every season, 

 although foi'ced so early. I know of no other sort that sets so 

 freely, I begin to force about the first of November, and the 

 tree is generally in full flower about the middle of December." 



- Mr. William Thomson, gardener to His Grace^ the Duke of 

 BuccLEUcn, Dalkeith Park, sent another bunch of Lady Downe's 

 Seedling Grape, merely to show how long this variety would 

 hang, and to exhibit the appearance that it .presented in the 

 month of May. At the last Meeting (April S2nd), the bunch 

 which was thep. exhibited, and which then had a young growing 

 shoot attached to it, was in excellent condition, w'ith the exception 

 of those berries that were cracked by the force of the ascending 

 sap. In the bunch exhibited on this occasion, the action of the 

 Sap was exhibited in a more marked degree, and the skin of 

 every berry was more or less ruptured. From this exhibition it 

 is evident, that the Lady Downe's Grape will not continue in good 

 condition after April. The thanks of the Committee were 

 awarded to Mr. Thomson for the trouble he had taken to lay 

 these facts before the Meeting. 



Mr. Hall, gardener to Capt Ttrrell, again exhibited speci- 

 mens of Bess Pool Apple, which were in very fine condition. 

 Mr. Melville, of Dalmeny Park Gardens, near Edinburgh, 



sent specimens of his Defiance Protecting^ Broccoli, which 



seemed to be a very hardy kind. Only one of them had a fully 

 developed head, and from the appearance which the sort pre- 

 sented, the Committee were of opinion that this is a very good 

 stock of Invisible Late "White Broccoli. 



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