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who, although he was heaten in the competition for the best" six 

 Lunches by Mr. Hill, gardener to Mr, Sneyd, of Kele Hall, Staf- 

 fordshire, and Mr. Henderson, of Trentham, gained the first prizes 

 in no less than thii^e classes for three bunches. Most beautiful 

 though his grapes were, however, no one could say, that '* too light 

 winning made his pr5ze light," Mr. Tillyard and Mr. Hettd^rson 

 pressing him so close, that it could scarcely be judged. 



One bunch of Trebblani grapes exhibited by Mr, Sage, gar- 

 dener to General Howe, actually weighed 7^ lbs. A large and 

 beautifully-grown collection of forty kinds from the Society's 

 large house at Chiswick, was also a source of much interest. 



Pine-apples are always a favourite with the public. Their 

 form delights the eye as much as their fragrance the sense of 



smell- On the present 



ficeaxt. The 



Queens exhibited by Mn W, Green, gardener to Mr.^ Honey- 

 \\'ood, satisfied every critic. Every good point was in perfection ; 

 but the enormous odd-looking smooth Cayennes, exhibited by 

 Mr. Ingram of Windsor, and M. Chantrier, head gardener 

 to the Duke de Levis, at Paris, seemed to excite more 

 interest and curiosity. The public does not know them so well ; 

 but if, as' seems now to be expected, they can be reared 

 of equally good flavour with the Queens, they may end in 

 dividing the public favour with that kind. But the most 

 interesting specimen of pine-apple was a small one exhibited 

 by Mr. Trevor Clark, grown in the open air in his heated 

 beds. It was an experiment tried with " rogues " thrown away 

 from a neighbouring house, and appears to have answered to 

 perfection. 



great advantage over the foreign 

 in being' freshly gathered, while a considerable portion of the 

 foreign collection had been plucked for more than a month pre- 

 -viously, and all those sent by the Horticultural Society of Namur 

 had been already exhibited at the Great Pomological Congress 

 held there i'n the end of September. Strange to say, however, 

 the apples from Nova Scotia came in such excellent condition, 

 that they looked as fresh and bright as if they had been plucked 

 that momin'gi^ They were packed in sawdust.- — We smiled when 

 we read in the Halifax Morning Star, of Blst Oct., the complar 

 cent announcement, that the fruit which had been sent "would 

 rather astonish our English friends"; but our incredulity has been 

 •rebuked, and we acknowledge that we have seen nothing in the 

 Exhibition which astonished us mdre than the Nova Scotia fruits 



The English fruit bad a 



