FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 13. clxXXVU 



proposed for it, but, the voting being equal for and against, the 

 Chairman gave his vote against, saying, it would be better to 

 bring it up again next year. Mr. Ross subsequently said that 

 he had raised a great many seedlings from ' Northern Spy,' but 

 that all had come crabs except this one. 



Mr. Freer, New Brompton, sent two green and white Vegetable 

 Marrows of Brobdingnagian proportions, one weighing 75| lbs., 

 the other 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford (gr. Mr. Bain), sent a 

 dwarf Celeriac with variegated leaves. 



Mr. Harris, Croydon, sent Melon 1 Harris's Favourite.' 



Mr. Geo. Lovelock, Normanton, Stamford, sent a reputed 

 seedling Apple, but the Committee considered it to be 1 Cellini,' 

 or so near to it that it was practically the same. 



R. L. Proudlock, Esq., Curator of the Government Botanic 

 Gardens, Ootacamund, India, sent ajar of Jelly made from fruit 

 of Bhodomyrtus tomentosa. The jelly was found exceedingly 

 sweet, and the flavour somewhat like apple jelly with a soupgon 

 of guava flavour, but hardly so good as jelly made from English 

 medlars, which is similar but not so sweet. 



Mr. J. C. Tallack, Livermere, Bury St. Edmunds, sent Apple 

 ' Beauty of Livermere ' — a seedling of much beauty, but of 

 hardly sufficient flavour and quality for dessert purposes. The 

 colour is so high that in many cases it passes into the flesh of 

 the fruit, which is of medium size, full at the base, and has a 

 deeply depressed eye. Its colour is sure to make it sell well in 

 the market. 



Messrs. J. Laing, Forest Hill, sent the Pear referred to above, 

 named ' The Popham,' also Apple ' Kandil Sinap,' a fruit much 

 in the way of ' Pidgeonette,' very juicy but lacking in flavour ; 

 also Apple' Sir Joseph Banks,' a handsome fruit of the Blenheim 

 type, but somewhat dry and mealy. 



Messrs. Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, sent an Apple which they 

 proposed to call 'St. Edmund.' It was of remarkably -fine 

 flavour, though somewhat dry. It was very highly coloured, but 

 with a sort of hazy bloom over the surface, and, if it will keep, 

 will prove of value. It was requested that it might be shown 

 later under a different name, there being already an apple of very 

 different character named ' St. Edmund's Pippin.' 



The following resolution was proposed by Mr. Wythes and 



