FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE, JANUARY 14. xlvii 



To Messrs. Cheal & Sons, Crawley, for 20 dishes of very 

 interesting and rare varieties of Apples and Pears. 



Award of Merit* 



To Dessert Apple ' Lord Hindlip ' (votes, unanimous), from 

 Mr. J. Watkins, Hereford. Of medium size, flat at the base, 



Fig. 1. — Apple, 'Lord Hindlip.' (Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



rising into a cone, somewhat shouldered ; eye small and de- 

 pressed ; stalk slender and rather deeply inset ; brightly coloured 

 with streaks of crimson spotted with russet ; of very fine 

 flavour ; said to be a good bearer ; season December, January, 

 and February. (Fig. 1.) 



To Cooking Apple 1 Eoyal Late Cooking ' (votes, 14 for), from 

 Her Majesty the Queen, Windsor Castle (gr. Mr. Owen Thomas). 



