CXCvi PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



To Messrs. Carter, High Holborn, for a very instructive 

 exhibit of varieties of Cabbage. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 



To Lord St. Oswald, Nostell Priory, Wakefield (gr. Mr. John 

 Easter), for a collection of Apples, showing how well they can 

 be grown, with care, even in a smoke-laden atmosphere. 



To the Dowager Lady Freake, Fulw T ell Park, Twickenham 

 (gr. Mr. Rickwood), for a collection of Apples and Pears. 



Bronze Knightian Medal. 

 To A. Young & Co., Stevenage, for Ornamental Gourds. 



Aivard of Merit. 



To Melon 1 Croxteth Jubilee ' (votes, 7 for, 3 against), from 

 Lord Sefton (gr. Mr. Barham), Croxteth Park, Liverpool. 

 Fruit of excellent flavour ; slightly oval ; skin yellow, slightly 

 netted, deeply ribbed ; flesh scarlet. 



To Pear ' Directeur Hardy' (votes, 10 for, 1 against), from 

 Messrs. Geo. Bunyard, Maidstone. Fruit of excellent flavour, 

 somewhat suggestive of 1 Chaumontel ' ; bluntly pyriform (peg- 

 top shaped) ; short stalk with no depression ; very small eye in 

 very slight depression ; skin brown and rough, with a red tinge 

 on the sunny side. Tree of rigid growth and very fruitful. 



To Apple 1 James Grieve ' ( votes, unanimous), from Messrs. 

 Geo. Bunyard, Maidstone. Fruit full of flavour, very tender 

 and soft and juicy; small eye somew r hat depressed ; long slender 

 stalk deeply inserted ; skin pale yellow brightly flecked with 

 crimson. The tree is said to be a very good and early cropper, 

 and the fruit keeps well when ripe. It was raised from Cox's 

 Orange by Messrs. Dickson, of Edinburgh. (Fig. 125.) 



Other Exhibits. 



Mr. Roger, Lodsworth, Sussex, sent a very pretty seedling 

 Apple which did not, however, seem to belong to either the 

 cooking or eating section. 



Mr. F. Norman, Benge Hill, Evesham, sent a seedling Apple 

 which was too like Fearn's Pippin. 



Mr. W. Pridmore, Hinckley, sent two seedling Apples, neither 

 of which seemed of suflicient merit. 



