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squeezing hardly allows a drop of juice to ooze out, is 
absolutely useless. 
Cocoanuts.—A very fine colle&tion difficult to, judge. 
Some very large nuts with thick fleshy kernels were.con- 
sidered the best. 
Fruit, other kinds.—Exhibits of figs, golden-apples, 
so-called psidium cherries (Flacourtia) Mandarin oranges, 
Otaheite gooseberries, and ground nuts were awarded 
prizes. The last were thought worthy of commendation, 
as an experiment, which we hope will lead to large culti- 
vation on some of our sandy soils, where alone the nut. 
would be likely to flourish, 
In the se&tion for artisans and labourers the exhibits 
of fruit were on the whole very good. The baskets of 
mixed fruit, however, were hardly as good.as might be 
expected, and would have been better for a little tasteful. 
arrangement. 
A. R. GILZEAN, 
J. RODWAY. 
REPORT ON CLASS D, VEGETABLES, 
The various vegetables cultivated in the Colony were. 
fairly represented, but the quality was far below the exhi- 
bits of former Horticultural Shows. 
The cause forcibly impressed on the Judges was defec- 
tive tillage, want of careful supervision while the plants 
were in progress of growth, and a limited supply. of 
manure. 
In the working of future Shows it will be,a, useful. 
innovation for exhibitors to attach the local name to each 
variety, such as. butter stick cassava, barooma plantain, 
to which experts would attach the Botanic and correét, 
