Clxiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Hill, and Messrs. Laxton Bros., Bedford ; the latter also sent 

 fruits of seedling Plums. 



A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, Carshalton (gardener, Mr. 

 Cummins), sent examples of Apples, names unknown. 



Messrs. H. Lane & Son, Great Berkhampstead, sent fruit of 

 a Pear-shaped Apple. 



Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, sent fruits of Crab 

 Apple John Downie, and Pyrus malus Elise Rathe ; also free- 

 fruiting branches of Damson Farleigh Prolific. 



Rev. W. Wilks, Shirley Vicarage, Croydon, sent fruit of a 

 new Pear named Marguerite Marillat — very large and handsome. 

 It was not ripe. 



Mr. J. Tubbs, Shrewsbury Lodge, Teddington, sent a seedling 

 Melon, which the Committee desired to see again. 



Seedling Melons were shown by Mr. G. Wythes, Syon House 

 Gardens, and Mr. Gilman, Ingestre Gardens. 



From the Society's Gardens were sent specimens of " evapo- 

 rated " Plums, the fruit kindly contributed by Messrs. Rivers & 

 Son, and dried at Chiswick. It was requested that some be 

 cooked for the Committee to taste at their next meeting. 



Mr. J. Roberts, The Gardens, Tan-y-Bwlch, South Wales, 

 sent fruits of Passiflora edulis. 



Mr. Bloxham, Great Brickhill Manor, Bletchley, sent good 

 examples of Onion V eitch's Maincrop. 



Cecil H. Hooper, Esq,, Elmleigh, Beckenham, exhibited an 

 album containing pictures of vegetables, which he had collected 

 in Paris ; also illustrations from his own photographs of French 

 methods of training fruit trees ; and other views in and around 

 Paris of matters of horticultural interest. 



