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HORTICULTURE 



LECT. I 



disseminating among cottagers and small farmers 

 mainly, offered a prize of 25 guineas, given by 

 Mr. H. R. Williams (a Past Master of the Company), 

 to which was added a gold medal by the great 

 pomologist, Dr. Robert Hogg, for an essay on Fruit 

 Culture. The essay has sold in thousands and, it 



FIG. 1. A ROYAL PRESENTATION or HOME-GROWN FRUIT. 



is hoped, has done good and will still do more, 

 can be had for a shilling from 171 Fleet Street. 



Then followed in 1890 an exhibition of home- 

 grown fruit in the London Guildhall, under the 

 auspices of the Fruiterers' Company, of which Sir 

 James Whitehead Bart., M.P., was then the Master. 



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