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When the exhibition was complete, and all the fruits arranged, there could be 

 no doubt that the Herefordshire collections of apples and pears formed its most 

 attractive feature, and on Sunday, when many people visited the Exhibition, they 

 crowded round the table on which the fruit was exhibited. The collection 

 consisted of 57 varieties of culinary apples, 57 varieties of dessert apples, and 

 36 varieties of pears. The finest dish on the table was one of Peasgood's 

 Nonsuch, from Mr. Hijjgins's garden at Thing -hill ; but there were noble specimens 

 of Warner's King, Gloria Mundi, Lord Derby, Lord Suffield, Tower of Glamis, 

 Stirling Castle, Cox's Pomona, Cellini, Catshead, Costard, Alfriston, Lord 

 Grosvenor, Yorkshire Beauty, Blenheim Orange (very fine), Annie Elizabeth, 

 Lane's Prince Albert, Emperor Alexander, Mere de Menage, Ecklinville Seedling, 

 Pott's Seedling, Hawthornden, &c., &c. "The dessert collection," says the 

 Journal of Horticulture, "was also very fine, and exhibited several varieties in 

 their true character. They had evidently been selected with great judgment, and 

 were spoiled neither by their excessive size, nor by being too small." Among 

 these were fine examples of the true old Golden Pippin, Red and Yellow Iiigestrie, 

 Cockle's Pippin, Pomeroy, Fearn's Pippin, Ribston Pippin (remarkably well 

 shown), Golden Reinette, Cox's Orange Pippin, Braddick's Nonpareil, Adam's 

 Pearmain, Lord Burghley, Rosemary Russet, Scarlet Nonpareil, Pearson's Plate, 

 Old Nonpareil, Margil (very fine), Kerry Pippin, Crimson Queening, Sam's Crab, 

 Herefordshire Pearmain, Cornish Gillitlower (very fine and characteristic, but 

 quite unripe), Irish Peach Apple, Court Penda Plat, &c. The pears also were 

 very attractive. Marie Louise (exceptionally fine), Triomphe de Jodoigne (also 

 very good), G^n^ral Todtleben, Beurre Hardy, Duchesse d' Angouleme, Thompson's 

 (very fine), Durandeau, Van Mons (Leon de Clerc), Buerre Bosc, and many others. 

 They were, however, with the exception of a few of the plates, neither so fine nor 

 so large as those exhibited for the Horticultural Society of Rennes by Brother 

 Henry (a lay brother of the Monastery there, whose ability equals his modesty of 

 demeanour). The Herefordshire collection was derived from the gardens of Stoke 

 Edith, Holme Lacy, Thing-hill, Bryngwyn, Wessingt(m Court, and some other 

 smaller gardens. It quite surpassed any others exhibited, and so highly did the 

 Society appreciate it that they awarded a gold medal to it. Another gold medal 

 was awarded to Brother Henry's pears from Rennes, and was richly deserved, for 

 they were exceptionally tine and well grown, without a failing dish in the whole 

 collection. It is Brother Henry who has written a very able work on fruit-grow- 

 ing, and to him is due a new mode of grafting walnut trees on the roots of the 

 young plants, which has proved most successful, and is very important for the 

 south of France where the walnut is so much grown. 



The next most striking feature in the great Hall of the Hotel des Soci(5tds 

 Savantes, and perhaps the one which stood first in the eyes of the representatives 

 of the Woolhope Club, was a very beautiful collection of grapes, all ripened in the 

 open air. They were grown by M. Marc, at Notre Dame de Vaudreuil, in the 

 Department of Eure. "It consisted," says the Journal of Horticulture, "of 100 

 varieties, among which we observed some of those grown in this country, but they 

 were chiefly of the small dessert grapes, like the various varieties of Chasselas, the 



