380 Notes and Gleanings. 



Fruit Show in Lonikdn. — The combined show of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society and the International Exhibition on the 4th of October last is said to 

 have been the finest fruit show in London since 1862. Nearly fifteen hundred 

 dishes of apples, the same of pears, two hundred and twenty bunches of grapes, 

 and a miscellaneous collection, including pineapples, peaches, nectarines, plums, 

 filberts, and cobnuts were shown. Mr. Scott, of Merriott, sent two hundred and 

 ninety varieties of apples ; but the gold medal for the best collection of apples 

 was awarded to W. Paul, who sent a hundred and seventy-one kinds. But few 

 of the names are given, and the only American sorts we notice are Boston Rus- 

 set, Rhode Island Greening, and Ramsdell's Sweet. 



The prize for the best collection of pears was taken by Messrs. Baltet freres, 

 of Troyes, France, who showed three hundred and fifty sorts, many of them 

 magnificent specimens, and who also made grand displays in the classes of des- 

 sert and kitchen pears. Among the new pears shown the following are noted as 

 particularly fine : Calebasse Carrefour, very large, De Loire, Prince Imperial, 

 Passe Colmar, unlike our variety of that name, Passe Colmar Musque, Doy- 

 enne Roux, Senateur Vaisse, Marie Benoit, fine, Belle de Septembre, large and 

 good, Huyshe's Prince Consort, Prince Albert, Huyshe's Bergamot, Huyshe's 

 Victoria, British Queen, Delices d'Aremberg, Beurre Baltet pere, Due de Morny, 

 Souvenir de Leopold I., Marechal Vaillant, Crassane de Hardenpont, kitchen. 

 General Laurent, Helene Gregoire, Henri Gregoire, Beurre Lamy, Beurre Du- 

 bort, Verulam, and Tendron-de Livrel — the last two kitchen varieties. Mr' 

 Gardiner, gardener to E. P. Shirley, Lower Eatington Park, Stratford-on-Avon, 

 showed a collection of forty varieties of pears, some of which were very fine. 

 It gives one a new sensation to read of an exhibition of pears from this place, 

 which we are accustomed to think of solely as the birthplace of Shakespeare. 

 Some magnificent pears were shown from trees which had been grown fifteen 

 years in pots. The English-grown apples and pears were, on the whole, decidedly 

 below size, but those exhibited by the French growers were generally very fine. 



Other fine new fruits were the Madresfield Court, Child of Hale, Mill Hill 

 Hamburg, Muscat Hamburg, Gros Guillaume, Black Monukka, Buckland Sweet- 

 water, Mrs. Pince, Kempsey Alicante, and Pope's Hamburg grapes. The lar- 

 gest bunch shown was a fine cluster of Ba.rbarossa, weighing six pounds. Fine 

 specimens of Golden Gem melon. Lord Palmerston, Salway, and Walburton 

 Admirable peaches, some very fine pineapples, and a collection of twenty-one 

 varieties of nuts and filberts were included in the exhibition. 



Messrs. Carter & Co. offered prizes for collections of six varieties of American 

 potatoes. Mr. Frisby, gardener to H. Chaplin, Esq., Blankney Hall, Sleaford, 

 was first with King of the Earlies, Climax, Bresee's Prolific, Peach-blow, Early 

 Rose, and Early Goodrich. Second came Mr. Garland, of Killerton, with the 

 same kinds, except that Bresee's Peerless took the place of Peach-blow. All 

 these, it is said, were large, but had an air of coarseness. 



