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keeping Apples perfectly sound was to have a fruit room with an ordinary 

 earth floor — not boarded or tiled — and to occasionally sprinkle the floor 

 with water to give atmospheric moisture even in winter, the majority of 

 fruit rooms being much too dry for keeping fruit sound. 



Rev. W. Wilks, M.A., Shirley Vicarage, Croydon, sent a basket of 

 highly coloured and well-preserved fruits of Apple * Cox's Orange 

 Pippin.' 



Fruit anp Vegetable Committee, Maech 12, 1901. 



Mr. George Bunyard, V.M.H., in the Chair, and twenty- three members 



present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Gold Medal. 



To Messrs. J. Veitch, Chelsea, for 100 dishes of splendid Apples. 



Silver Knightian Medal. 



To Mr. A. J. Thomas, Rodmersham, Sittingbourne, for 60 dishes of 

 Apples. 



Award of Merit. 



To Apple 'Lamb Abbey Pearmain ' (votes, 11 for, 7 against), from 

 Messrs. J. Veitch. Fruit small, deep, round, handsome shape ; skin pale 

 green changing to yellow, with a slight flush of red on the exposed side, 

 marked all over with minute russety dots ; eye of medium size and partly 

 open, with broad segments, set in a moderately wide basin ; stalk half- 

 inch long, thin, and deeply inserted in a russety cavity ; flesh firm, brisk, 

 and of excellent flavour. A very small and old variety, raised in 1804 ; it 

 keeps sound until May. 



Other Exhibits. 



Mr. E. B. Chambers, 32 Broad Street, Abingdon, sent Apple ' Joe 

 Eaton,' raised from pips of * Blenheim Orange,' and not so good as its 

 parent. 



E. W. Caddick, Esq., Caradoc, Ross (gr. Mr. M. Roe), sent Apple 

 ' Caradoc Scarlet.' 



Mr. R. Maher, Yattenden Court Gardens, Newbury, sent three dishes 

 of Apples. 



Mrs. Ernest Hill, Redleaf, Penshurst (gr. Mr. G. Ringham), sent ten 

 dishes of Apples. 



Fruit and Vegetable Committee, March 26, 1901. 



Mr. George Bunyard, V.M.H., in the Chair, and nineteen members 



present. 



Award Recommended 



Cultural Commendation. 



To Mr. C. Dixon, gr. to the Earl of Ilchester, Holland House, 



