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good, those of Kamuning being very good for low country cultiva- 

 tion. ^ There were several entries for table decoration, Mrs. I <»\ 

 securing the first prize for a pretty arrangement of roses, a table 

 decorated with pink and white Honolulu creeper was the next b< t 

 arrangement. 



Vegetables. 



In the classes for vegetables there were some fa rly good exhibits 

 but the attraction in this part of the Show was the superb series of 

 vegetables from the Perak Hills Gardens shown by Mr. CAMPBl i L. 

 Here on a circular table were shown peas, carrots of two varieties, 

 very large, excellent cabbages, potatoes of unusual size for even our 

 hill stations, excellent beet root, tomatos, leeks, radishes, vegetable 

 marrows, two varieties, turnips, kohlrabi, celery (exceptionally large) 

 artichokes, chocho, parsley, mint and several other vegetables. 

 Undoubtedly the finest exhibition of European vegetables ever seen 

 in the Peninsula. 



With these were staged some good Cocoa-pods, and some thin 

 sheets of Ceara rubber (very clean and good) Castilloa, Rambong, 

 and Para rubber. The whole display reflected the greatest credit 

 on Mr. Campbell. Of the vegetables shown for competition the 

 first prize for collection of vegetables was won by a very poor lot, 

 Cucumbers were fairly good, and so were beans of different kinds, 

 the rest of the vegetables were very ordinary. 



Fruit. 



The fruit classes were better on the whole and contained some 

 very good exhibits, but it was difficult to see on what grounds the 

 judges awarded their decisions, as in the cases of durians, pine- 

 apples, papayas and pumeloes, the fruits were not even opened, so 

 that flavour and condition seemed to be eliminated in deciding the 

 comparative value of the fruits. In the case of any fruit not speci- 

 ally classed a prize was given to some fruits supposed to be lemons, 

 and by some thought to be oranges, but which were really one of 

 the citrons of inferior quality. The most noticeable fruits in this 

 class were some good avocado pears shown by Mr. COATES, and 

 some good pomegranates shewn by Mr. Khew KHOOI of Balik 

 Pulau, but neither of these exhibits obtained any mark of com- 

 mendation. 



But few Rambutans were shown, although the crop seemed to 

 be very fine in Penang this year, but the samples were fairly good, 

 and the Pulasans better, Tampunet, {Artocarpus rigidd) a fruit less 

 well known to the Eurpoean tharf it should be was well shown. 

 A good number of pines were shown, chiefly Mauritius pines, of 

 which the sample which received the first prize was hardly in con- 

 dition. There were two samples of black West Indian, one oi 

 which large but overripe obtained a first prize, the second in better 

 condition, were smaller. A second prize was won by some field 

 pines, (of the Red Ripley style) large but of no particular merit A 

 special prize was awarded to a tall-stemmed pine with a small and 

 almost rotten fruit. Perhaps the most interesting pine shewn was 

 the Pernambuco {Abacaxi) of which three fruits hardly ripe, how- 



