FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE, DECEMBER 9. CCXxi 



Mr. J. Hamlin, Gordon Road, Worthing, sent a highly coloured dish 

 of Apples unnamed, raised from ' Newton Wonder ' (fig. 276) crossed with 

 1 Devonshire Quarrenden.' 



Mr. W. H. Patterson, University College, Reading, brought fruits of 

 Sechium edule (Chocho). The fruits are of medium size, rough, and 

 somewhat like a small Gourd. When cooked the flesh is more solid than 

 the Vegetable Marrow, and has the flavour of boiled Chestnuts. This 

 Cucurbitaceous plant is common to the tropics, where it is used for cattle- 

 feeding. In ' Nicholson's Dictionary of Gardening ' the root is men- 

 tioned as large and fleshy, weighing nearly 20 lbs., resembling a Yam in 

 appearance and of similar flavour when cooked. 



Arctotis grandis. {Journal of Horticulture.) 



