FEUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE, AUGUST 18. cxlix 



Award of Merit. 



To Apple ' Feltham Beauty ' (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Veitch, 

 Chelsea. .Fruits flattish-round, medium size ; eye closed with long calyx 

 segments, in puckered shallow basin ; skin greenish yellow, heavily 

 streaked with red ; stalk slender, half-inch long, inserted in shallow 



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cavity ; very similar to Cox's Orange at base ; flesh crisp and peculiarly 

 aromatic (Mr. Gladstone x Cox's Orange Pippin). (Fig. 54.) 



Other Exhibits. 



Col. Archer-Houblon, Newbury : seedling Apple. 

 Messrs. Mathews, Abingdon : seedling Apples. 

 F. W. Piatt, Esq. Highgate : scarlet runner Beans. 

 W. A. Voss, Esq., Rayleigh : scarlet runner Beans. 



