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medium size, oval, and of a lovely bluish-amber colour, with a thick 

 bloom. The flesh is agreeable in flavour, and has the great advantage of 

 being, like 1 Black Monnukka,' seedless. 



Fruit and Vegetable Committee, August 18, 1903. 

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



Awards Recommended :- - 



Silver-gilt Knightian Medal. 



To Messrs. Dobbie, Rothesay, for early Potatos. 



To Messrs. Spooner, Hounslow, for a collection of Apples. 



Fig. 178. — Peach ' Peregrine.' (The Garden.) 



Award of Merit. 



To Scarlet Runner ' Hackwood Success ' (votes, unanimous), from 

 Mr. Bowerman, Hackwood Park, Basingstoke. Pods of great length, 

 some 15 inches long, straight, deep green, and bcrne in very large 

 clusters. A remarkably free-bearing variety. 



To Peach ' Peregrine ' (votes, 10 for, 3 against), from Messrs. Rivers, 

 Sawbridgeworth. Fruit large, with a deep suture ; skin covered with red, 

 with spots of a deeper shade ; flesh soft, melting, very juicy, of good 

 flavour, and clinging to the stone. A mid- season or late variety raised 

 from ' Spenser ' Nectarine. (Fig. 178.) 



