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severe frost, which completely destroyed the entire crop above ground. A 

 specimen bundle was sent up on the 15th, however, but it was so much 

 injured by the frost that it was not submitted to the Committee. The 

 bundle now submitted has been pulled to-day from the same bed, and is 

 entirely the growth of the last fortnight, during which time no protection 

 whatever has been afforded to the plants, with the exception of the 

 thatched hurdles round the outside of the bed, the top being quite open. 

 The sticks, of course, are very small indeed — scarcely a quarter the size 

 of those pulled five weeks ago — but as the crop has been twice cut down 

 by frost, and this is the third growth made this winter, some evidence is 

 afforded of the abnormal precocity of the variety." 



The Committee desired that it be sent to Chiswick for trial. 



Captain Carstairs, Welford Park, Newbury (gr. Mr. C. Ross), sent 

 Apples ' Edgar ' and ' Bertha,' both raised from ' Cornish Aromatic ' x 

 ' Cox's Orange Pippin.' 



Mr. W. Strugnell, Rood Ashton, sent Apple ' Mannington's Pearmain,' 

 in good condition. 



Mr. M. Nicholls, Tolgns Hill, Redruth, sent Apples ' Pennington 

 Seedling ' and ' Tolgus Wonder.' 



Captain Cox, Beckford Hall, Tewkesbury (gr. Mr. G. Farmer), sent an 

 Apple named ' Beckford Beauty,' which proved to be ' Barnack Beauty.' 



Miss Breton, Forest End, Sandhurst (gr. Mr. R. Handley), sent some 

 magnificent specimens of Yams {Dioscorea Batata). 



Fruit and Vegetable Committee, February 12, 1901. 



Mr. Geo. Bunyard, V.M.H., in the Chair, and eighteen members 



present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Gold Medal. 



To Messrs. Bunyard, Maidstone, for 100 magnificent dishes of Apples. 



Silver Kiiightian Medal. 

 To Messrs. Cheal, Crawley, for 100 dishes of Apples. 



Cultural Commendation. 



To Mr. G. Wythes, V.M.H., gr. to the Duke of Northumberland, Syon 

 House, for a well-fruited plant of Vanilla planifolia. 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. Brown, Peterborough, staged six pretty dishes of Apple 

 ' Barnack Beauty.' 



Mr. R. Maher, Yattenden Court Gardens, Newbury, sent Apples * Court 

 Pendu Plat ' and ' Dutch Mignonne.' 



Mr. J. Basham, Fairoak, Newport, Mon., sent a dish of Walnuts with 

 holes at the points of the nuts. It was suggested that it was the work of 

 rooks, but they were sent to the Scientific Committee for examination. 



W. Roupell, Esq., Harvey Lodge, Roupell Park, S.W. (gr. Mr. A. 

 Russell), sent Apples ' Cox's Orange Pippin ' and ' Melon Apple.' 



