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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROSfAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Fruit and Vegetable Committee, May 26, 1897. Temple 



Gardens. 



Philip Crowley, Esq., in the Chair, and fourteen members 



present. 



Awards Recommended :— [For other Awards see p. xvii.] 



First Class Certificate. 



To Tomato ' Golden Jubilee ' (votes, unanimous), from Mr. 

 Owen Thomas, gardener to Her Majesty at Windsor. This 

 Tomato received an Award of Merit under the name of ' Eoyal 

 Windsor ' on August 5, 1896 (see Vol. xx., pt. 2, p. cxxxiv). At 

 Mr. Thomas's request the Committee, in voting F.C.C., also 

 changed the name to ' Golden Jubilee.' This is probably the 

 finest Tomato, for eating as a fruit, that has ever been raised, 

 its flavour being delicious. [See p. li.] 



Award of Merit. 



To Melon ' Diamond Jubilee ' (votes, 9 for), from Hon. G. M. 

 Fortescue (gr. Mr. Herrin), Dropmore. A round, scarlet fleshed 

 fruit, well netted, and of excellent flavour and very sweet ; the 

 result of a cross between ' La Favorite ' and an unnamed 

 seedling. 



Other Exhibits. [See also p. xvii.] 



W. H. Evans, Esq. (gr. Mr. Crook), Forde Abbey, sent a 

 Strawberry 1 Forde Abbey Seedling ' which was considered too 

 like 1 Royal Sovereign ' to merit an Award. 



Messrs. Laxton, Bedford, sent a Strawberry ' Early Laxton,' 

 a cross between 'Mr. Buskin' and 'Royal Sovereign.' It was 

 desired that it might be tried at Chiswick. 



Mr. Owen Thomas sent Cauliflower ' Thomas' Early,' which 

 was considered too near to 1 Early Dwarf Erfurt.' 



Mr. Palmer, Andover, sent some remarkably fine i Royal 

 Sovereign ' Strawberries, which had been grown as follows : — 

 " The runners were layered in the open ground on an allotment 

 and lifted early in August and planted in another allotment ; but 

 having put up a house for Tomatos it occurred to me that I 

 might turn the Strawberries to a good account if they were 



