Clxvi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Fruit Committee, November 26, 1895. 
T. F. EivERS, Esq., in the Chair, and thirteen members present. 
Awards Recommended:— 
Silver Knightian Medal. 
To Earl Percy, Syon House, Brentford (gr. Mr. Wythes), for 
a large assortment of green winter vegetables, viz. Cabbage, 
Savoy, Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts, Endive, Borecole, &c. 
To Messrs. Cheal & Sons, Crawley, Sussex, for one hundred 
dishes of Apples and Pears, prominent amongst the Apples being 
Bismarck, Washington, and Cox's Orange Pippin, and amongst 
the Pears Duchesse de Mouchy and Beurre Sterckmans. 
Award of Merit. 
To Apple Stubbs seedling (votes, unanimous), from Mr. Wm. 
Palmer, Cobden Villas, Andover. Fruit of medium size and 
flat ; colour a deep shining scarlet ; flesh white, tender, juicy, 
and of pleasant flavour. 
Other Exhibits. 
Seedling Apples were exhibited by Messrs. Laing & Son, 
Forest Hill, who sent a variety named Palmer's Seedling ; by 
Messrs. Laxton Brothers, who staged a large, handsome variety 
named Bedford Scarlet, which seemed promising ; and by Mr. E. 
Steward, 57 Carrington Street, Nottingham, who sent a seedling 
said to be a very late-keeping Apple. The Committee desired to 
see it in April. 
Messrs. Lane & Son, Berkhamsted, exhibited a basket of 
splendid specimens of Lane's Prince Albert Apple. 
Earl Percy, Syon House, submitted an unnamed seedling 
Apple, and the white-skinned Jerusalem Artichoke. 
From Mr. W. Neild, Horticultural College, Bowden, Cheshire, 
came Neild's seedling Tomato. 
