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of the original form before hybridisation, and in the same way 

 red seeds produce white ones. As a general rule he dis- 

 countenanced vegetables being too big — overgrown. The true 

 test of a vegetable lay in the hands of the cook, and the smaller 

 the vegetable the more likely it was to get cooked right through. 

 In dealing with Tomatos he noticed that Mr. Sutton had omitted 

 the ' Conference ' Tomato, raised in connection with the Chiswick 

 Conference some years back. He would like to bear testimony 

 to the marvellous work done by Messrs. Sutton in regard to the 

 Potato ; but he could not help thinking that one great mistake 

 had been made in sacrificing, in so very many cases, good 

 flavour for a big crop. The ' Windsor Castle ' was one of 

 Messrs. Sutton's triumphs, being one of the finest Potatos ever 

 grown. They owed a debt of gratitude to the Americans for 

 introducing 1 Early Eose ' and others ; for, taking things all 

 round, he thought there was no Potato for field or garden culture 

 equal to the 1 Beauty of Hebron ' and the 1 Puritan.' Turning 

 to another view of the question, Mr. Bunyard spoke of the false 

 policy of buying cheap vegetable seeds, characterising it as the 

 greatest folly that could be perpetrated. He constantly saw 

 vegetable seeds advertised for sale which could not be properly 

 grown for the money. Very few people had any idea of the 

 great care and attention necessary in making a proper selection, 

 extending over a number of years. There was a tendency on 

 the part of all vegetables to revert to some former type, and that 

 required the greatest care in watching. He would therefore 

 counsel people not to buy cheap seeds at any price. 



Mr. Fyffe said that many Peas were sent to Chiswick for 

 trial without any definition, and he would suggest that in the 

 next year's publication of the Royal Horticultural Society 

 people shold be asked to send in proper descriptions, so that the 

 Superintendent could have the older varieties grown side by side 

 with the new. 



The Chairman said there was one tendency at the present 

 day which ought to be checked, and that was allowing old friends 

 to appear under different names. At Chiswick, for example, 

 they had some thirty varieties of Beet sent under different names, 

 but upon examination there were found to be only five different 

 varieties. As to new Melons, at least nineteen out of twenty 

 that came before them were worse than their parents. 



