Xliv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



sent a dish of ' Wellington ' Apples (syn. Dumelow's Seedling). 

 Probably the finest coloured dish of this variety ever seen. 



The Hon. Henry Butler, Nydd Hall, Ripley, sent Apple 

 4 September Beauty.' 



Messrs. Young & Dobinson, Stevenage, sent 24 dishes of 

 Potatos. 



Lady Emily Foley, Stoke Edith Park (gr. Mr. Ward), sent a 

 seedling Apple, very pretty, but quite past its best. 



Mr. G. Fulford, Damerham, sent a dish of Pear 1 Doyenne 

 d'Hiver,' which is one of the many names of the well-known 

 4 Easter BeurreV The fruits were of very large size, and delicious 

 in both quality and flavour. 



Messrs. James Veitch & Sons sent Apple * Fraise d' 

 Homnger,' a very pretty fruit indeed, and of good quality, but 

 wanting in flavour. Also Apple 1 Standard Bearer,' which 

 received an Award of Merit in 1893. The fruits were of good 

 size, conical, with a slightly rough, greeny yellow skin, and firm 

 yellow flesh ; of good quality, and very fair flavour. 



Mr. Henry Sheppard, Bedford, sent under name 1 Sheppard's 

 Nonpareil,' a dish of Apples which the Committee considered to 

 be 1 Scarlet Nonpareil.' 



Lord Suffield, Gunton Park, Norwich (gr. Mr. Allan), sent 

 for correct name a dish of Pears which Mr. Allan had obtained 

 under the name of ' Crassane,' by grafts from a tree fifty years 

 old at Blickling. The variety was quite unknown to the Com- 

 mittee, but the fruits resembled what one would expect from a 

 cross between 1 Hacon's Incomparable ' and 1 Winter Nelis.' 



Mr. John Wright exhibited some preserved Dates sent to him 

 by Lionel Sandars, Esq., one of her Majesty's judges in Egypt. 

 Writing from Ramleh, Egypt, Mr. Sandars says : — " I am 

 sending something which I think you have never tasted before 

 — preserved Dates — which should be eaten at dessert like ginger. 

 I am always surprised that people in England know nothing 

 about them, and cannot help thinking it would pay someone to 

 import them. They improve by keeping." 



This being the last meeting of the Season 189G-7, the Chair- 

 man said that he wished in his own name, no less than in that 

 of the Council, to thank all the members most sincerely for 

 the great pains they had taken, and the attention they had 

 bestowed on the work that had come before them. 



