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no numbers or quantities of dishes being mentioned. 

 Thus, at the Royal Horticultural Society's great fruit 

 show, classes are provided for nurserymen and market- 

 men. One class is for 24 ft. run of 6 ft. tabling (the 

 fruits to be grown entirely out of doors). Another 

 class is for 1 6 ft. run of 6 ft. tabling, and there are 

 others for 18 ft. run, and 12 ft. run, each of 6 ft. 

 tabling. The collection of orchard house fruits and trees 

 is limited to an area 24 ft. by 6 ft. In these classes the 

 exhibitors can use either plates, baskets or boxes, and 

 can arrange their fruits as they choose. This allows 

 them to exercise skill and taste, and some remarkably 

 handsome displays have been seen. Sometimes the fruits, 

 usually apples, are arranged in tapering pyramids down 

 the centre, with smaller conical grouplets in the middle 

 or at the corners. Tiered wire or wicker stands, with 

 basins for the fruits, are sometimes employed, and 

 garlands of barberries, crab-fruits or nuts, etc., have been 

 utilised to add to the general effect. 



DESSERT AND COOKING VARIETIES OF HARDY 

 FRUITS 



The line of separation between dessert and culinary 

 varieties of fruits must necessarily be arbitrary, for so 

 much depends upon personal taste. This being so the 

 Royal Horticultural Society had lists drawn up for the 

 guidance of its judges, and these lists have been adopted 

 by the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society, and are 

 recognised by a very large number of other Societies 

 that provide numerous classes for hardy fruits. The 

 varieties in the following lists are in no sense recom- 

 mended, they are merely classified for exhibition purposes 

 with the object of preventing disqualifications and of 

 securing uniformity of procedure : 



