74 .TOUKNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
Vegetable Committee ; Mr. George Bunyard, V.M.H., of Maidstone ; Mr. 
George Monro, V.M.H., of Covent Garden Market ; Mr. W. Ponpart, of 
Twickenham ; and Mr. James Walker, of Ham. These gentlemen, 
having carefully considered the matter, sent the following Memorandum 
to the Fruit and Vegetable Committee, who unanimously adopted it, and 
sent it up to the Council, and the Council ordered it to be forwarded as 
the Society's reply to Her Majesty's Customs : — 
Royal Horticultural Society, 
117 Victoria Street, S.W. : 
May 12, 1899. 
Considering the fact that all fruits, and even varieties of the same 
fruit, differ very considerably in their weight per bushel, we consider the 
quotation of imported fruit by measure altogether misleading. 
We are very strongly of opinion that all importations of fruit should 
be recorded by weight, and not by measure at all. 
The best weight to use in this country is the ton of 2,240 lbs., not the 
cubic ton. 
Philip Crowley. 
James Walker, 
w. poupart. 
George Monro. 
George Bunyard. 
III. 
An excellent essay of ninety pages on the House Sparrow, by W. B. 
Tegetmeierby, F.Z.S., with an appendix by Miss Ormerod, has recently 
been published by Messrs. Vinton & Co., of New Bridge Street, E.C. 
The work is most thoroughly done, dealing with the natural history of 
the bird, citing countless opinions on its use or destructiveness, and sug- 
gesting various means of combating its phenomenal increase, which in 
many places is so great as to have become a veritable plague. Moreover, 
the type used in printing the essay is excellent. 
