SHOW OF COLONIAL-GROWN FRUIT. 



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Class 7. — Home Tinned Vegetables. Open. No entries. 

 Class 8. — Foreign Bottled Fruits, Jams, &c. No entries. 



Miscellaneous Exhibits. 

 Silver-gilt Kniglitian Medal. 

 To Messrs. Wilkin, Tiptree, Essex, for Bottled Fruits. 



Silver Knightian Medal. 



To Messrs. Gillard, Walthamstow, for Chutney, Pickles, &c. 



To Hereford Preserves, Aubrey Street, Hereford, for Bottled Fruits. 



To Messrs. C. Lunn, Kirkburton, for Bottled Fruits. 



To Mrs. W. H. Plowman, 16a Chapter Street, London, S.W., for 

 Bottled Fruits, Jams, and Jellies. 



To Swanley Horticultural College (Principal, Miss Wilkinson), for 

 Jams, Jellies, and Marmalade. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 



To Messrs. Abbot Bros., Southall, for Preserving Bottles with glass 

 tops. 



To Miss Edith Bradley, Bredon's Norton, Tewkesbury, for Steriliser. 



To the Studley Horticultural College, Studley, Warwickshire, for 

 Home-made Jams. 



To the Thatcham Fruit and Flower Farm, Hen wick, near Newbury, 

 for Home-made Jams. 



The show of Home-bottled British Fruits exceeded any similar show 

 previously held by the Society in the number and extent of the exhibits, 

 and in the quality of bottling. It gave promise of a coming success for 

 these shows hitherto unanticipated, and it is hoped that ere many years 

 pass the demand for space in this section will be so great as to induce the 

 Council to dissever the show from that for Colonial Fruits, and to give it 

 an exclusive occupation of the Hall. It is believed that these efforts will 

 do much to revive the taste for this domestic but skilful, and tasteful 

 old-time occupation for ladies, an occupation at once economical, profit- 

 able, and enjoyable. The ancient processes of half a century ago have 

 given place to more skilful, scientific, and effective methods, which are, 

 however, still perfectly easy and simple, as demonstrated by Miss Edith 

 Bradley's most interesting lectures on fruit-bottling and sterilisation 

 with her Mercia patent steriliser. These lectures were much appreciated 

 by those attending them, and the Council accord their very sincere thanks 

 to Miss Bradley for them. 



The attention of exhibitors is specially drawn to a perfectly new 

 feature in the Schedule for 1908, contained in Class 29, for three bottles 

 of British-grown Fruits (of which one must be Raspberries), bottled and 

 shown by amateurs, " To be shown on November 26, 1908, and left in the 

 Society's care until a corresponding date in 1909, when they will be 

 tested and the prizes awarded." 



