FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE, JULY 27. 



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Fruit and Vegetable Committee, July 27, 1897. 



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



present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver-gilt Knightian Medal. 



To Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, for one hundred 

 varieties of Gooseberries. 



Award of Merit. 



To Nectarine ' Precoce de Croncels ' (votes, 7 for, 5 against), 

 from Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. 



Cultural Commendation. 



To Mr. D. McAinsh, gardener to Mr. Alderman Samuel, 

 Leeds Castle, for wonderful specimens of Peach ' Sea Eagle.' 



Other Exhibits. 



Mr. J. Taylor, Hardwicke Grange, Shrewsbury, sent a new 

 Melon, ' Hardwicke Beauty,' a cross between ' Gunton Park ' and 

 ' Blenheim Orange,' a very handsome and promising round 

 fruit, much netted, but it had been cut too long. 



Mr. Lundy, The Warren, Cobham, sent a dish of the ' Japan 

 Wine Berry.' 



Messrs. Stokes, Trowbridge, sent a dish of their new Pea 

 ' Hero of Trowbridge.' Highly Commended at Chiswick, 1896. 

 See Vol. xx. p. 68. 



Messrs. Carter, High Holborn, sent eighteen varieties of 

 Turnips, to show the differences of growth, &c. 



Earl Percy (gr. Mr. Wythes) showed French Beans ' Veitch 's 

 Early Favourite ' and ' Wythes' Improved Mohawk.' The first- 

 named was sown on May 3, and ready for use on June 15 ; the 

 latter, sown on May 21, was ready for use on July 10. 



Leopold de Kothschild, Esq. (gr. Mr. Hudson), Gunnersbury 

 House, sent a seedling Melon, a cross between ' Golden Perfec- 

 tion ' and ' Blenheim Orange.' The fruit was very oval, and 

 hardly netted at all. 



