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FRUIT COMMITTEE. 



Philip Crowley, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair, and sixteen 

 members present. 

 Awards Recommended :— 



Cultural Commendation. 



To the Duke of Northumberland, Albury Park, Guildford 

 (gardener, Mr. W. C. Leach), for fine fruits of Strawberry James 

 Veitch. 



To Messrs. T. Burton & Bon, Bexley Heath, for excellent 

 examples of Peach Waterloo from a pot-tree. 



Other Exhibits. 



Mr. E. Bradshaw, Davenham Gardens, Malvern, sent a seed- 

 ling Melon. 



Mr. C. Turner, Slough, sent good samples of Apples from 

 Tasmania. 



The Duke of Northumberland sent fruits of Strawberries 

 Noble and Auguste Nicaise. 



From the Society's Gardens, Chiswick, were sent ten varieties 

 of Rhubarb. 



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., in the Chair, and nine 

 members present. 



Growth in Darkness. — Dr. Masters received a communication 

 from Gloucestershire, in which it was stated that wooden props 

 in a coal-mine at a depth of 1,000 feet had sent out shoots with 

 perfectly blanched leaves. They had grown vertically upwards, 

 and proved to be Oak and Sweet Chestnut. He also exhibited a 

 large mass of interlacing roots, apparently of a Lime-tree (judging 

 by their bitterness and mucilaginous character), which had grown 

 underneath the floor of a house in Bayswater. No tree was 

 known to be anywhere in the neighbourhood. It was suggested 

 that the root had grown along some drain-pipe, and finally found 

 an exit where it could develop into branches. 



Acacia dealbata. — Dr. Masters showed flowering branches 

 from a tree which had been killed down to the ground ten years 

 ago, but had sent up suckers. These proved to be hardier than 

 the original plant, as they w T ere uninjured during the past winter, 



