FRUIT COMMITTEE, JULY 21. 



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Other Exhibits. 



Dr. Hogg sent a fruiting branch of the Early Julyan Apple 

 to show the character of the variety in the Weald of Sussex. 

 There were forty- six fruits on a shoot three feet in length, most 

 of them being highly coloured. In most districts they are pale. 

 This is a very early and useful Apple, much grown in some of the 

 London market- gardens. 



Major Heneage, V.C., Compton Bassett, Calne, Wilts 

 (gardener, Mr. W. A. Cook), sent six dishes of Peas. 



Lord Wimborne, Canford Manor, Dorset (gardener, Mr. T. H. 

 Crasp), sent a dish of Fig Ursule d' Avignon, and a small fruit- 

 ing bush of what was described as a " new " White Currant. 

 This was recognised as the old Cut-leaved, or Shilling's White. 



Mr. Crook, Ford Abbey, Chard, sent examples of two Seed- 

 ling Tomatos. 



Some very large Apples were sent through the Secretary of 

 the Wellington Horticultural Society, New Zealand. They had 

 been packed in powdered charcoal, which much disfigured the 

 fruit. Having been forty-two days in transit, they were all more 

 or less decayed, and not in a condition for examination. The 

 thanks of the Committee were recorded for the endeavour that 

 had been made in sending the specimens to arrive in good con- 

 dition. 



Mr. B. Ashton, Glossop Hall, Derbyshire, and Mr. G. H. 

 Mould, Frampton Court, Dorchester, sent Seedling Melons. 



From the Society's Gardens were sent eighteen varieties of 

 Currants. 



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.K.S., in the Chair, and four 

 members present. 



Conifers attached by Chermes. — With reference to this sub- 

 ject, brought before the Committee at the last meeting, Mr. 

 Blandford remarked on the difficulty of destroying the insects 

 with the paraffin spray, inasmuch as it was practically useless 

 for large trees, and could be only applied to small ones ; more- 

 over, it will not remove chermes unless it be applied with force, 

 and in that case water alone would answer the purpose. The 



