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Summer Queening, Summer Strawberry, Downton Pippin, Scarlet Crofton, and 

 Cornish Aromatic. 



Class 2 was for a collection of culinary Apples. Mr. Ballick was 1st with 

 thirty -four dishes, all large, handsome, excellent fruits. The kinds were : — 

 Northern Greening, French Crab, Wellington, Siely, Tower of Glamis, Ecklin- 

 ville Seedling, Yorkshire Greening, Cox's Pomona, Lord Derby, Woodcock, Lord 

 Suffield, Royal Russet, Golden Noble, King of the Pippins, White Apple, 

 Lucombe Seedling, Hoary Morning, Bedfordshire Foundling, Loddington Seed- 

 ling, Blenheim Orange, Golden Spire, Winter Queening, French Royal, Hanwell 

 Souring, Beauty of Kent, Mfere du Menage, Warner's King, Queen Charlotte, 

 Cullen, Graham Gooseberry Pippin, Norfolk Beefing, New Hawthornden, and 

 Winter Monarch. Mr. Watkins was 2nd, and Mr. John Barnes of Gloucester, 3rd. 



Class 3 was for a collection of dessert Pears. The 1st prize was awarded to 

 M. Benoit, Havre, for fifty-two varieties, all well-grown specimens, large and 

 handsome, and including many kinds not common in this country. Mr. H. Moor- 

 man, Cheltenham, was 2nd, and Mr. J. Barnes, 3rd. In Class 4 (collection of 

 culinary Pears) Mr. Barnes was 1st. 



Division IL — Classes 5 to 11 were for amateurs. Class 5, collection of 

 dessert Apples. — 1st, Sir Henry Scudamore Stanhope, Bart., Holme Lacy; 2nd, 

 Mr. J. Pitt, Bosbury ; 3rd, Mr. H. Jenkins, Canon Pyon. Class 6, culinary 

 Apples.— 1st, Sir H. S. Stanhope, Bart. ; 2nd, Mr. H. Ward, gr. to Lady Emily 

 Foley, Stoke Edith ; 3rd, Mr. H. Higgins, Thinghill, Hereford. Classes 7 and 8, 

 collections of Nonpareils and Russets respectively. — No exhibits. Class 9, collec- 

 tion of dessert Pears. — Sir H. S. Stanhope, Bart., 1st, with a superb collection of 

 twenty -four dishes. Every fruit was a perfect typical specimen. This was, taken 

 altogether, the most interesting collection in the exhibition. The whole of these 

 pears, we were informed, were grown on the cordon trees at Holme Lacy, of which 

 an interesting account is given by Sir H. S. Stanhope in the second part of the 

 Herefordshire Pomona. The following is a list of the kinds in this collection : — 

 Doyenn^ Gris, Easter Beurr^, Beurr^ Bachelier, Glou Morceau, Beurr^ d'Arem- 

 berg, Doyenn^ Blanc, Doyenn^ d'Alengon, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Beurr^ Diel, 

 Triomphe de Jodoigne, Beurr^ Superfin, Beurr^ Sterckman, Van Mons, Z^ph^rin 

 Gr^goire, Beurr^ Clairgeau, Doyenn^ du Comice, Doyenn^ Boussoch, Columbia, 

 Marie Louise, Duchesse d'Orleans, Monarch, Beurr^ Bosc, General Todleben, 

 Josephine de Malines. 



Class 10 was for smaller collections of dessert Pears. — Ist, Sir H. S. Stan- 

 hope, Bart. ; 2nd, Mr. J. Parker, gr. to Mrs. Evans, Moreton ; 3rd, Rev. C. H. 

 Bulmer, Credenhill. 



Class 11, collection of culinary Pears.— 1st, Mr. F. Taylor, gr. to Mr. H. B. 

 Strangways, Sherdington ; 2nd, Sir H. S. Stanhope, Bart. 



Classes 12 to 29 constituted Division III., each being for single dishes of, 

 in some instances, named kinds of Apples and Pears, which elicited an interesting 

 competition, and others for Apples "for present flavour," Pears "for present 



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