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REPORT ON THE EXHIBITION OF APPLES AND 

 PEARS AT HEREFORD. 



The Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club do not confine their labours to the study of 

 fungi, but, as most of our readers know, they have for some years been collecting 

 information on the subject of Apples and Pears, and have enriched the literature 

 of our country by three annual parts of an important publication, to which we 

 have frequently referred — the Herefordshire Pomona. Since the issue of the first 

 part, the scope of the undertaking has been greatly enlarged, and instead of 

 merely illustrating the local fruits of their own county, the Club has now under- 

 taken the much greater work of figuring and describing the principal Apples and 

 Pears which are grown in various parts of the country. To help them in this work 

 they have of late years held an exhibition of these fruits in the autumn, and have 

 availed themselves on these occasions of the typical specimens of Apples and 

 Pears brought together in competition for prizes for the purposes of their magnum 

 opus. The exhibition for the current year took place at Hereford on Wednesday 

 last, the 27th October. Nearly 2000 dishes of fruit were exhibited, and the greater 

 portion of the exhibits were of the highest possible excellence. 

 The exhibition has for its objects : — 



1. — To encourage the growth of valuable fruit in place of worthless varieties. 

 2. — To name fruits unknown to the exhibitor. 

 3. — To afford information to the Committee, and 



4. — To provide characteristic specimens for illustration in the Herefordshire 

 Pomona. 



The arrangements of the exhibition were carried out, as on previous 

 occasions, by Mr. H. C. Moore, Honorary Secretary, ably assisted by Mr. D. R. 

 Chapman, Librarian. 



The prize list was divided into several classes. Division I. was set apart 

 for "professional" exhibitors, and was "open to all, and from anywhere." Class 1 

 was for a collection of dessert Apples. The prizes were awarded as under : — 1st, 

 Mr. Lewis Killick, Maidstone ; 2nd, Mr. John Watkins, Wisteston ; 3rd, Mr. J. 

 GriflBths, Tillington. Mr. Killick's collection consisted of twenty -eight dishes, all 

 good, several handsome and highly-coloured, and the whole as good an exposition 

 of the dessert resources of our best orchards as any one need wish to see. The 

 following were the kinds in this collection : — Duchess of Oldenburg, Worcester 

 Pearmain, Blenheim Orange, Golden Knob, Mabbott's Pearmain, Aromatic 

 Russet, Cox's Orange Pippin, Yellow Ingestre, Borden Pippin, Hubbard's Pear- 

 main, Ribston Pippin, King of the Pippins, Dungay, Sturmer Pippin, Duchess of 

 Gloucester, Golden Russet, Royal Russet, Court Pendu Plat, Wyken Pippin, 

 Wanstall, Mannington Pearmain, Lady Derby, Bordeaux Reinette, Sharp's 

 Pippin, Scarlet Nonpareil, Margil, Court of Wick, and Fearne's Pippin. Among 

 other Apples shown in this class, there were good dishes of Peasgood's Nonsuch, 



