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London Fruit Exhibition. 



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Wales." Membership of the Congress is open upon payment 

 of a fee of £1, and all who are interested in the development 

 of the poultry industry are cordially invited to attend. 

 Arrangements have been made for the accommodation of 

 visitors at fixed and reasonable rates. The programme includes 

 excursions to neighbouring places of interest. 



World's Poultry Exhihition. — Simultaneously with the Con- 

 gress the World's Poultry Exhibition will be held. This will not 

 be a competitive show, but an exhibition of the best breeds of 

 poultry from various countries, as well as poultry houses and 

 appliances, books and other literature, diagrams and photo- 

 graphs. There will be also scientific demonstrations illustrating 

 the work of instructors and investigators. The countries repre- 

 sented at the Congress will have their own committees and sub- 

 committees to arrange for the preparation and reading of papers 

 and the preparation of exhibits. The honorary secretaries of the 

 British Committee are : — 



Prof. R. C. Punnett, M.A., F.R.S., Whittinghame Lodge, Cambridge. 



Mr. T. R. Robinson, F.S.I., 3, Vincent Square, Westminster, London, S.W.I. 



to whom all enquiries relating to the Congress and Exhibition 

 should be addressed. Many countries are arranging to send 

 exhibits of representative poultry and poultry appliances. No 

 prizes will be aw^arded, but each exhibitor will receive a medal 

 and diploma. 



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Under the auspices of the Ministry, an exhibition — the first 

 of its kind — of home-grown and imported fruit will be held in 

 London Fruit I^o^^lon in the autumn, when varieties of 

 Tn ^ fruit orown in the United Kingdom will 



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be placed m competition with varieties 



grown in the Colonies and in certain foreign countries. Such an 

 exhibition will, it is anticipated, be extremely helpful to our 

 own fruit growers as well as to those engaged in placing 

 foreign and Colonial fruit on our markets. Although much of 

 our home-grown fruit is good, the methods of presenting it on 

 the market leave much to be desired, and our growlers would 

 be well advised to give close attention to this side of the 

 exhibition. 



The three largest shows for English fruit are those held 

 annually at Wisbech, Maidstone and Worcester. This year 

 these three shows will be incorporated in the London Fruit 



