38 REPORTS OF THE FRUIT COMMITTEE. 
JoLDEN GacE.—A light crop. Not very vigorous. 
) ор as yet. 
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WiINESOUR.—No crop as yet. 
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N.—No crop as yet. 
It d я exceedingly desirable if the various Committees that are now 
established in connection with the Fruit Committee, would adopt the above Report 
shire Local — for their guidance i i 
In 
way, some knowledge of the condition of the same fruit in 
different parts of the aniy. would be arrived at, and cultivators van be 
enabled to ascertain what varieties are best adapted for the different localities. 
as also read from the Local Committee of the Valley of the — 
M obs is е таак 
ia ed Kelso, Nov. 14, 1862, on which day the Local Committee for the Abbey 
Tweed getable 
district of ' dal ppointed by the Fruit and Vegetable Committee of the 
Ro orticultural Society, met according to previous кердин ; present, Rev. 
В. О. Bloomfield, Cha mith, Mein апа . Th dh irman re 
that Mr. Mein and himself had, in the middle of October, paid a visit to 
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Dryburgh and Melrose with a. view of med the orchards of those places and 
of obtaining specimens of their produce. From the unfavourable summer, standard 
e ve 
icd up to the mark. The same may be said of the th 
pears; the qu 
a I vA idu Some specimens of a apples grown on the wall of the orc 
sidered p yere examined by the Committe, and as a few of them were con- 
| Ме в rts for cultivation in the districts, it v 
fon dud to London with such names as had been obtained, in hope that the 
Мее ег to certi ; 
i i e nt some specimens from the 
Por аны of Kelso, of which the nomenclature was е unknown or 
‘The Chairman brou rought 
gooseberries hich the 
facies 98 paon day, havi еар, е "we imag eh 
like in rid that Gr yer the Rep WARRINGTON, эү а gora sort, d 
: to the Addle of October t they were in first-rate condition, 
ing on ushes in the middle of November erel 
; i ^ m e ; 
from & bush, grown for experiment alongside of a үн WARRINGTON, ein 
trees, if p y ver be the of the 
“The у, к, = pe poo. of f frost, 
ieties of n specimens of the 
vourable. . EXT past las bem in every N 
bes was bci ыы and on the 14th of May a sharp IS на D 
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July two hoe лү over жс T cc € з». ыа diy arene иб ; 
growth and has afterward, heure ы ан n the fruit, which both checked its 
‘that of average seasons ned its decay, Standard fruit is so inferis to 
barren, that it could sery and во out of character, and so any у ieties er 
after all afford any proper і LT purpose to Yee va Jd erg b would not 
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Ше емы fruits 
