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XIX.—REPORT OF THE FRUIT COMMITTEE. 
JANUARY 91, 1868, 
This was a Special Meeting of the Committee, Мв. GnanAM in the Chair. 
The object for which the meeting was held was to allow Mr. Thomson, gardener 
to his Grace the President, at Dalkeith, an opportunity of exhibiting his Nzw 
Brack HAMBURGH Gra ainst any other old BLACK Grapes shown by Mr. 
Tillery, gardener to his Grace the Duke of ped d at Welbeck. The event arose 
from a discussion which took ter Be in этн pages of “ The Florist and Pomologist," 
wherein Mr. Thomson advocated the merits of n "2a pes against grapes that were 
ripened last year and were owed to hang till the present time, while Mr, Tillery 
was in favour of old and against the 
Mr. Thomson sent three very даг me bunches я New Brack HAMBURGHS 
ripened on Christmas Day. The binho were of the ordinary size, compact and 
well set. The berries were large, black, and ham нгө, and the flavour was 
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Hampureus of Mr. Tillery sugary and with more они ги іп 
regard of а КУЗ and тес the decidi was in favour of Mr. Thoms 
Mr. McKenzie of Kemp Town, Brighton, also pks a Бо of New аша 
їп beautiful condition, jet black and of excellent flay 
Mr. Tillyard, gardener to John Kelk, Esq., VEGAN Priory, sent three 
bunches of magnificent rend ОЕ айык йб, for which he was awarded 
a Certificate of Commendatio 
Mr. Pack, gardener to G. 4 хатину Esq., of East Redford, sent a handsome 
bunch of BLACK BARBAROSSA grapes 
Mr. John Cox, of Байет f, sent а dish of SEEDLING PEAR, which he had found 
useful from its ripening successively from Sos beginning i doce till the 
present time; but the Committee did not form 
Mr. ge i Hertford, sent an apple which was not yer Ap pit of 
partieular n 
XX.—LETTER FROM Mz. WEIR, THE COLLECTOR 
IN SOUTH BRAZ 
Castro, 7th December, 1862. 
Sir,—I arrived in the village of Castro about the middle of October, with the 
intention of going on at once to deer del as йс = эч a e Serra do 
Mar inr of tha d 
and especiall 
аКе an excursion to the den of the province, a ра Aes recently ы 
opened to a аа: а =. leagues above the junction gh the river uius Mari D 
Parana Pan wher о 
the purpose ФУ pedis dm ivilising the Indians. I have ‘een шолын. to go — 
