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Silver' Banksian Medal. 

 To J.. B. Fortescue, Esq., Dropmore, Maidenhead (gr. Mr. C. Page), for 

 thirty-six dishes of Apples. 



Other Exhibit. 



Messrs. Sutton, Reading, sent ' Sutton's Hardy Sprouting Kale,' a 

 plant similar in growth to Brussels Sprouts, with a multitude of open 

 sprouts all up the stem. 



Fruit and Vegetable Committee, February 24, 1903. 

 Mr. Geo. Bunyard, V.M.H.j in the Chair, and seventeen members present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Mr. Will Tayler, Hampton, for twenty dishes of Apples. 



Cultural Commendation. 



To Mr. G. Wythes, V.M.H., Syon House Gardens, Brentford, for 

 large well-blanched Asparagus forced on out -door beds. 



Other Exhibit. 



Miss C. E. Martin, Willowbrook, Auburn, N. Y., sent a most 

 interesting collection of bottled fruits, pickles, &c. The whole exhibit was 

 most beautifully preserved, but the bottled fruits, as Cherries, Plums, 

 Strawberries, were far too sweet to please the British taste, and con- 

 vinced the Committee of the truth of what they had often heard, viz. 

 that our American cousins are addicted to a very sweet tooth indeed. 

 The Peaches and Pears in Brandy were excellent, being not like our 

 Brandy Cherries strong of spirit, but with only just a soupcon of the 

 taste of Brandy, so that one could thoroughly enjoy a bottleful of the 

 fruit. Some of the Pickles were very strange and novel, and it requires 

 longer experience before expressing any opinion on them ; but the Peach 

 Chutnee and the sliced green Tomatos cannot be too highly recommended. 



Fruit and Vegetable Committee, March 10, 1903. 

 Mr. Geo. Bunyard, V.M.H., in the Chair, and nineteen members present. 

 Exhibit. 



F. A. Bevan, Esq., Trent Park, New Barnet (gr. Mr. H. Parr), sent a 

 hardy Borecole, somewhat like ' Read's Hearting.' 



