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Exhibition, which will also, it is hoped, include exhibits from 

 Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Thus the autumn exhibition in 

 London w^ill be a national one, and the exhibits w-ill be the 

 best and most representative of the United Kingdom 

 and properly comparable w^ith those from Canada, CaliforniEs 

 and other places. 



The ^Ministry has appointed an advisory committee, which 

 is already at work, to organise the exhibition, and it is hoped 

 to announce in the Press at an early date the full programme, 

 which will be of a novel and interesting character. The 

 exhibition will also be of interest to the general public, whose 

 knowledge, for instance, of the best varieties of apples for 

 eating or cooking is too often limited to a chance purchase of 

 a choice specimen. One of the results of the London Fruit 

 Exhibition will undoubtedly be to popularise the best varieties 

 of fruit and so stimulate growers in the United Kingdom to 

 supply the increased demand for them. 



The courses successfully inaugurated last season in fruit 

 and vegetable preservation at the ^Ministry's Experimental 



. « Station, Campden, Gloucestershire, are to 

 Courses m Fruit , ' . }■ ^ . i -, • .1 



, , , be contmued until October during the 



and Vegetable ^ ^, , . % 



Preservation current year, with the exception ot the 

 month of July. A course lasts a fortnight 

 and covers fully every phase of the subject. The fee is BOs. Full 

 particulars can he obtained from the secretary of the Station at 

 Campden. As the accommodation for students is limited, early 

 application is desirable. 



The Permanent Committee of the International Institute of 



Agriculture at Rome has forwarded the text of a resolution 



_ . .. _ 1 passed at its last meeting, under w^hich the 



International \. . . . / j i. j 



^ » distinction of Membre donateur de 

 Institute of ^ T . X- 1 J' V • 1^ 



. rinstitut International d Agriculture 



^ * may be conferred upon anyone who, being 



desirous of testifying in a practical way to the ideals of the 



Institute, presents either in money or in kind a gift of the 



value of not less than ten thousand lire. The names of donors 



will be inscribed on a uiaible tablet, which will be affixed in 



the building of the Institute at Pome. The first " :\rembre 



donateur " to be nominated is M. Victor Vermorel, Member 



of the National Agricultural Ac;uVmy of France, a former 



Senator, who has recentlv ^iven a generous donation. 



