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Tlooltoge  Sbaturalists’ ‘Fin Glub. 
A NEW HEREFORDSHIRE POMONA. 
A special meeting of the members of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field 
Club was held at the Free Library, Hereford, on Wednesday the 25th ult., to con- 
sider the question of publishing a ‘‘ Herefordshire Pomona.” The chair was taken 
by Dr. Chapman, of Burghill, the President of the Club for the current year; 
and there were also present Mr: J. Griffith Morris, the President elect; the 
following vice-presidents; Rev. W. Jones Thomas, Mr. James Rankin, Rev. 
Charles J. Robinson, and Mr. W. A. Swinbourne; with Rev. C. H. Bulmer, Rev. 
James Davies, Dr. Bull, Mr. T. Cam, Mr. F, W. Herbert, Mr. G. H. Piper, Mr. 
J. T. Owen Fowler, and Mr. H. 8. Hall, members of the club. 
The President said that as Dr. Bull had prepared the whole subject for 
discussion, perhaps he would at once address the meeting (hear, hear). 
Dr. Bull said that they were aware that it had for a long time been the 
wish of the Woolhope Club to take up the subject of the Pomology of the county, 
and to make inquiries into the history, varieties, value, and uses of the apples and 
pears grown in Herefordshire (hear, hear). They had for a long time believed the 
varieties grown in Herefordshire to be very numerous; and they knew that the 
whole pomology of the county was neither known nor valued elsewhere as it 
deserved to be. Three years since, after some conversation on the subject, the 
Rey. M. J. Berkeley, the celebrated mycologist, sent down as a present to the 
Woolhope Club large bundles of grafts of all the most valuable apples in the 
gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society of London. There were no less than 
92 sorts of the best recognised eating and cooking apples, ‘‘ pot fruit,” as 
the term goes here, in contra-distinction to “cider fruit.” The club gave grafts 
of each kind to Messrs. Cranston and Mayos, and distributed the others among 
their own members. On the following year an exhibition of apples, of a very 
interesting description, took place in connection with the club’s autumn meeting ; 
and in the present year there was another exhibition of apples, which had excited 
even more interest than the show of last year (hear, hear), The Club, following 
its usual plan, endeavoured to obtain the services of the best and most experienced 
man they could find to look at those apples, and, through the influence of the Rev. 
Mr. Bulmer, of Credenhill, who saw Dr. Hogg at the Bath and West of England 
Show, that gentleman promised to come to Hereford to inspect the Club’s exhibi- 
tion of apples and pears. Dr. Hogg, as the head of the Royal Horticultural 
Society’s gardens in London and Chiswick, as the author of the best Fruit Manual, 
and editor of the Journal of Horticulture, is the first Pomologist in the country. 
Dr. Hogg eame to Hereford, and was fairly astonished to see at once so-many 
