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selected from fine varieties of Plums, Damsons, Raspberries, 

 Black Currants, Green Gooseberries, &c, grown on Lord 

 Sudeley's fruit farms at Toddington, near Cheltenham, 



Messrs. Chivers & Son, of Histon, near Cambridge, had a 

 smaller but equally excellent display of similar fruits. 



Mr. J. E. Austin, Kingston-on-Thames, had some very clear 

 light-green Jam made of Plums, and also Quince Marmalade 

 having a flavour peculiar to that fruit. 



Mr. J. Edmunds, Liverpool Eoad, N., contributed some 

 excellent foreign preserves, including Mango Chutnee, Tamarinds, 

 and Preserved Mango — the latter being attractive in colour, but 

 somewhat disappointing to the palate. Vanillas, Eipe Mangos, 

 and Guava Jelly were among the remaining exhibits. 



Tinned fruits preserved in liquid were sent by Messrs. Ellis, 

 Eislingbury & Co., of St. Mary Axe, and consisted of Spanish 

 grown Cherries, Greengages, and Apricots ; while the " Frame 

 Food Co." exhibited some of its " Jelly," said to be a preparation 

 of Wheat phosphates, and recommended by the Company as a 

 substitute for ordinary Jams. 



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



W. T. Thiselton Dyer, Esq., C.M.G., F.R.S., in the Chair, 

 and seven members present. 



Plantain Fruit. — Mr. Morris exhibited two large fruits of 

 Musa sapientum var. paradisiaca, or the common Plantain, 

 grown at Syon House. In the tropics it is generally used 

 as a vegetable before it is quite ripe. It practically takes the 

 place of the Potato, and is a very valuable food, especially in 

 tropical America. 



Merulius laclirymans (?). — Dr. Oliver exhibited an interesting- 

 specimen of the mycelium of some fungus which had grown 

 between two sheets of canvas. It had spread in a radiating 

 manner, covering a space of about 8 inches square. 



Antirrhinum majus, Monstrous. — Mr. Henslow showed a 

 flower of the yellow Snapdragon, with narrow ribbon-like yellow 

 and white outgrowths from the calyx. Such emanations are 

 not uncommon from the outer surface of corollas, as in the 

 fringed Cyclamen, Polyanthus, Gloxinia, &c. ; but in the present 



