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In the Muscat of Alexandria class some very good bunches were 

 staged, but all of them were not ripe. Mr. Edwards, Liphook, 

 well won the chief position with long taperiDg bunches and good 

 and well-finished berries ; Mr. Cole'man being an excellent second ; 

 Mr. Lowden third with very good bunches and very large berries, but 

 not fully ripe. In the class for any other white Grapes Mr. 

 Johnstone, The Gardens, Bayham Abbey, Sussex, deservedly had 

 the premier award with grand examples of Buckland Sweetwater, 

 fine alike in bunch, berry, and finish. Mr. Mowbray, Fulmer 

 Gardens, was a good second with medium-sized bunches and 

 splendid berries in fine condition ; Mr. Atkins, gardener to Col. 

 Loyd Lindsay, Lockinge Park, "Wantage, being third with fine 

 examples of Poster's Seedling. Mr. Astlett, The Gardens, Warren 

 Wood, Hartfield, and Mr. Iggulden, Orsett Hall, staged still finer 

 examples of the last-named variety, but not perfectly ripe; and 

 Mr. Edwards staged very fine Buckland Sweetwater. 



Peaches.— Fourteen dishes of splendid fruit were staged, Mr. 

 Coleman, Eastnor Castle, being placed first with grand examples 

 of A. Bee; Mr. Bones, gardener to D. Mcintosh, Esq., Havering 

 Park, Romford, being a close second with Eoyal George, very 

 fine ; and Mr. Crump, gardener to the Duke of Marlborough, Blen- 

 heim, third with Barrington. Nectarines were also remarkably 

 fine, notably the prize dishes ; Mr. Miles, Wycombe Abbey, being 

 first with Elruge, large and highly coloured ; Mr. Holliday, gar- 

 dener to J. Norris, Esq., Castle Hill, Bletchingley, second with Lord 

 Napier, large but rather pale ; and Mr. Nash, gardener to D. Fuller, 

 Esq., Shoreham, Sussex, third with the same variety. 



Cherries. — Mr. Miles was as usual in the first position with 

 Governor Wood and Black Circassian ; and Mr. Woodbridge, Syon, 

 second with Frogmore Bigarreau and Belle d'Orleans. Mr. Miles 

 was also first in the single dish class with Black Circassian ; Mr. 

 Austen, gardener to Sir Greville Smythe, Bart., Ashton Court, 

 Bristol, second with Bigarreau Napoleon; and Mr. Woodbridge 

 third with Belle d'Orleans. 



Melons. — Of these the display was a very good one, thirty-one 

 fruits being staged. A few were small, but the majority were of 



good size, a few being large, and most of them apparently in excel- 



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