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Plums : — ' Rivers' Early,' crops well on grass, but not on cultivated 

 ground ; ' Czar/ ' Purple Egg-Plum,' ' Victoria,' ' Veitch's Black 

 Bullace ' (' Langley Bullace '), which is first-rate for bottling. 



Gooseberries : — ' May Duke,' which was grown in Kent fifty years 

 ago as ' Bank of England ' — it does not do under trees but is good 

 in the open ; ' Careless,' ' White Lion,' and ' Lancashire Lad.' 



Black currants : — ' Baldwin,' ' Seabrook's Black,' 1 French.' 



Red currants: — 'Skinner's Early,' 'Dutch' (of upright growth), 

 and ' Raby Castle.' I should like to mention, however, that there 

 is great confusion in the names of red currants, because they are 

 different in different parts of the country. 



Raspberries : — ' Bath's Perfection,' ' Hornet,' ' Pine's Royal.' 



Strawberries : — ' Royal Sovereign,' and ' Stirling Castle ' for jam. 



Loganberries do well on the American system of training, but must 

 not be raised from seed, otherwise you get all kinds of varieties. 



Cherries: — 'Early Rivers,' 'Waterloo,' 'Kentish Bigarreau,' 

 ' Napoleon,' ' Kentish,' and if you have a spare corner Quince 

 'Champion' is good. 



I was horrified to find upon coming here this afternoon that I 

 was supposed to give a list of garden varieties, and as I was not warned 

 in time I have not prepared any list. However, I have jotted down a 

 few since I have been here. 



Dessert Apples : — ' Miller's Seedling,' ' Benoni,' ' Cox's Orange 

 Pippin,' ' Charles Ross,' and ' Sturmer ' (very late). 



Pears : — ' Louise Bonne of Jersey/ ' Doyenne du Cornice.' 



Plums : — ' Green Gage,' ' Jefferson.' 



Gooseberries : — ' Yellow Rough,' and ' W T arrington ' (for bottling) . 

 Raspberries : — ' Superlative.' 



That is my list, but if I had received longer notice I would have 

 given you the names of other good garden varieties. It is a most 

 difficult subject, however, and it is particularly desirable that intending 

 growers should find out, each in his own district, which varieties will 

 there do best. 



The Chairman then called upon Prof. E. S. Salmon, Mycologist to 

 the South-Eastern Agricultural College, to read his paper on 



The Growing of Clean Fruit. 



I have been asked to speak on the subject of the " growing of clean 

 fruit," in other words, on the control of those fungus and insect pests 

 against which the fruit-grower has to wage such a ceaseless warfare. 



In reviewing this subject, it will be convenient for us to consider 

 it under four heads : 



1. Breeding ; 



2. Planting and cultivation ; 



3. Direct measures other than spraying ; 



4. Spraying. 



