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Lady HuU. — A white Grape of grand flavour and very large 
bunches ; ought to be much more widely grown. F.C.C. 
Vaeious Fruits. 
The Japan Wineberry (Rubus phoenicolasius) deserves notice. 
It is a useful fruit for tarts, &c., and being also a handsome 
climbing or trailing plant, with a pretty weeping habit and red 
stems, I think it has a future before it. F.C.C. 
The American Brambles have, in my opinion, proved a 
failure. 
In conclusion, let me say that before we can admit the intro- 
duction of so many New Fruits it will be necessary to exercise 
unsparingly and impartially the work of selection amongst both 
the new aspirants for favour and also amongst the old and 
more established varieties. No one can doubt but that in 
almost every department there are already too many (or at least 
ample) varieties, whilst at the same time no one can also doubt 
but that in every department there is room for the introduction 
of a really first-class novelty. But it must be first-class, and 
growers all the country through should remember that when 
they send up any novelty or seedling to the Fruit Committee of 
this Society, they must not be disappointed at its being left 
unnoticed, unless it is manifestly superior in some respect to all 
similar fruits ripening at the same season. The superiority may 
be in flavour, fertility, habit, size, colour, or what not, but 
manifest superiority is essential. They should also bear in 
mind that the new-comer must not be content with manifesting 
a superiority in one respect if at the same time it displays 
inferiority in another. For instance, it is no true advance to 
gain size and lose flavour, or to gain flavour and size in a tree 
that is subject to canker or is a shy bearer. The great desidera- 
tum, of course, is to advance in all points of excellence, and the 
least that should be accepted in admitting a new friend to 
favour is that in one point at least it exceeds, and in all others 
equals, all similar established varieties with which it competes 
or whose place it seeks to supply. Nothing can stand the 
ordeal of a passage round our Society's Fruit Committee's table, 
and a tasting by twenty to thirty expert fruit growers, unless it 
is presented in good order, and be in itself of really sterling 
merit. 
