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England. This is how the " Daily News " of Nel- 

 son recorded the event: " The silver Knightian medal 

 awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society to the 

 Nelson Vnih Growers' Association on November 26 

 last, at the show in London, has just been received. 

 The apples were sent by James Johnstone, J.J. Camp- 

 bell, J. T. Bealby, and C. G. Broadwood. The Cox's 

 Orange Pippins in the display were said to have been 

 the finest exhibited in London, and 26s. per box was 

 offered for them." 



Our third success was gained in June-July of the 

 following year, at the Dominion Fair held at Calgary, 

 in Alberta, on the other side of the Rocky Mountains. 

 To that fair I contributed, amongst other things, a 

 few boxes of Hothouse Tomatoes and a few dozen 

 Hothouse Cucumbers. The former were stated, in 

 more than one organ of public opinion, to be the best 

 in the show. They did not gain any prize, because 

 no prize was awarded for such exhibits. As for the 

 cucumbers, they seem to have excited an unwarranted 

 amount of attention. Many visitors, whose experi- 

 ence of fruit of that kind was limited to the short, 

 sturdy Spine Cucumbers, which are grown exten- 

 sively out of doors in certain parts of America, could 

 hardly credit that our cucumbers, over a foot long, 

 straight as a ruler, and destitute of spines, could be 

 real. One old lady refused to accept the statement 

 that they were not made of wax until one was snapped 

 in half and the " pearling juice drops " were ex- 

 hibited for her conviction ! 



Success number four was won nt the Nelson Fruit 

 Fair of 1908. On that occasion I staged \arious pro- 

 ducts — flowers, fruit, and vegetables, and though my 



