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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Feuit Committee, August 27, 1895. 
Ph. Ceowley, Esq., in the Chair, and seventeen members 
present. 
Avmrds Recommended :— 
Silver Gilt Knightian Medal. 
To Messrs. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, for eighty-five dishes of 
fruit, including many varieties of Apples. 
Silver Knightian Medal, 
To Her Majesty the Queen (gr. Mr. Owen Thomas), Royal 
Gardens, Frogmore, for a collection of Plums (thirty varieties), 
containing most of the varieties in general cultivation in this 
country. 
Silver Banksian Medal. 
To Messrs. Spooner & Sons, for fifty varieties of Apples. 
Award of Merit. 
To Apple Williams' Favourite (votes, unanimous), from 
Messrs. Bunyard & Co. A very highly coloured early variety. 
To Crab-apple Transparent Crab (votes, unanimous), from 
Messrs. Veitch & Sons. The fruit is large and good for a Crab 
and exceedingly ornamental. 
Other Exhibits. 
Seedling Melons were exhibited by : — 
1. The Earl of Knowslcy (gr. Mr. Doe). 
2. Lord Foley, Esher (gr. Mr. Miller). 
3. Earl Percy, Syon (gr. Mr. Wythcs), who again sent 
Excelsior. 
The Right Hon. Sir T. D. Acland, Bart. (gr. Mr. Garland), 
sent a seedling Peach resembling Royal George. 
A seedling Nectarine came from R. Burrcll, Esq., Bury St. 
]''dmunds. 
From Lord Foley came a collection of fruit, Apples, Pears, 
Grapes, (^c. ; and from Earl Percy a handsome dwarf kidney 
