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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Cultural Commendation, 



To Mr. Owen Thomas (gr. to Her Majesty the Queen), 

 Windsor, for a very fine box of Cucumbers, 'Frogmore 

 Prolific' 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. Eivers sent a new Apple, called 1 Brook's Hill Pippin,' 

 a very tall conical fruit, having a very pretty eye, which with its 

 depression occupies the whole of the summit of the cone ; skin a 

 full yellow with a few streaks of red ; stalk very short in a deep 

 depression. 



Fig. 20. — apple ' st. martin's.' (Journal of Horticulture.) 



From Earl Percy, Syon House (gr. Mr. Wythes), came a 

 dish of Artichokes, * Vilmorin's White.' The tubers were 

 exceptionally long, as well as white, some of them exceeding 

 6 inches. 



Mr. Owen Thomas sent from Her Majesty's Gardens at 

 Windsor a dish of superb yellow Tomatos, 4 Royal Windsor.' 

 It was requested that seed might be sent to Chiswick. 



