FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE, NOVEMBER 18. CCXvii 



Other Exhibits. 



Mrs. Evans, Forde Abbey, Chard (gr. Mr. J. Crook), sent a fine dish 

 of Pear 1 Winter Nelis.' 



W. Foster, Esq., Brockhampton Court, Eoss (gr. Mr. S. Lovelock), 

 sent a Pear for identification, somewhat like 1 Brown BeurreV The 

 Committee asked to see fruit, wood, and foliage next year. 



Mr. C. Osman, Sutton, Surrey, staged Potato 1 Up-to-date,' lifted in 

 1901 : they were much shrivelled, and forming a mass of small tubers. 



Messrs. J. Veitch, Chelsea, exhibited a very fine collection of Borecoles, 

 also ' Langley Crab,' and Kaspberry ' November Abundance.' 



Mr. C. Webb, Kendal, sent jam made from fruits of the Strawberry- 

 Raspberry (Rubus pahnatus), very sweet and good, and similar to Rasp- 

 berry jam in flavour.* 



A. W. Sutton, Esq., V.M.H., Bucklebury Place, Woolhampton, sent 

 Melon ' Seedling Winter,' very good in flavour for so late in the year. 



Fig. 273.— Apple 'Allington Pippin.' (Journal of Horticulture.) 



Mr. W. Edwards, Weybridge, staged Vegetable Marrows ' Defiance ' 

 and 1 Defiance Improved.' Both were of medium size, green and yellow 

 in colour, the latter the larger. 



Mr. R. W. Wallace, Colchester, sent two exceedingly fine dishes of 

 ' Allington Pippin ' Apples. (Fig. 273.) 



Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart., Elsenham Hall, Essex (gr. Mr. W. Plester), 

 sent Tomato 1 Italian Wonder.' This variety is better known as ' Semper 

 fructifera,' and produces its small dark-red pear-shaped fruits in enormous 

 clusters. 



Mr. G. Reuthe, Hanworth Road, Feltham, brought two very large 

 fruits of Quince ' Imperial.' 



* Professor L. H. Bailey appropriates the name of Strawberry-Raspberry to 

 R. roscefolius. It is further possible the jam in question may have been made of 

 R. phcenicolasius, the Japan wineberry (fig. 274) which is sometimes erroneously 

 called the Strawberry-Raspberry. — Ed. 



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