MISCELLANEOUS EXHIBITS. 



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The Horticultural College, Swanley (Principal, F. G. 

 Powell, Esq.), sent Apples and Pears, together with excellent - 

 looking specimens of Fruits bottled at the College. 



Messrs. Gaymer, Attleborough, sent specimens of a multitude 

 of cider Apples and their produce. 



Messrs. Paul, of Cheshunt, sent some nice Apples. 



Several nurserymen sent exhibits of Flowers. 



CONFERENCE. 



Thursday, September 30. 



The Chair was taken by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 

 President of the Society, at 3 p.m., who called on Mr. George 

 Bunyard, V.M.H., of Maidstone, who read the following 

 paper : — 



PROGRESS IN FRUIT CULTURE DURING QUEEN 

 VICTORIA'S REIGN, 1837-1897. 



By Mr. George Bunyard, V.M.H. 



It is somewhat difficult to carry back one's mind to the 

 condition of fruit culture that existed sixty years ago, and I 

 propose, therefore, to ask you in imagination to pay a visit to a 

 well-kept garden of 1837, to inspect the style of culture then in 

 use, and to take note of the varieties of fruit which were 

 cultivated in it. 



We will suppose that the garden is a large square walled-in 

 area of two or three acres. On the outside the line of wall facing 

 south would be broken by a plain building in the centre, lofty 

 inside, with massive pillars, and windows reaching to the ground, 

 not heated, as nowadays, but capable of resisting a fair amount 

 of frost. 



In this building one would find large Orange and Lemon 

 trees in tubs, the earlier introduced varieties of Camellias 

 (probably from Chandler's at Vauxhall), some Oleanders, large 

 trees of Aloysia citriodora (the Lemon plant), Pomegranates, 

 Fuchsias, and possibly a number of Bay trees, and other shrubs, 

 which in summer time would be placed out on the terraces. 



The outside walls, right and left, would be clothed with 



