FK'iri' AND VEGETABLE C03LMITTEE, AUGUST 31 
CXIU 
Prolific' Seed was requested to be sent to Chiswick, for trial with other 
varieties outside, next year. 
Messrs. Bunyard, Maidstone, sent Apple ' Lady Sudeley,' from trees 
twenty years old, and the first of the variety grafted. The fruit was very 
large and highly coloured ; also fruit and jam of liubus Phnsniculasius, the 
latter very sweet, w^itli too many seeds in it. 
R. Neverson, Esq., Tenterden Hall, Hendon (gr. Mr. S. Foster), sent 
Melon ' Foster's Seedling,' overripe. 
Mr. R. Fife, Orpington, sent two pots of red and yellow Tomato 
jam, made with one pound of sugar to each pound of fruit, which caused 
the jam to be much too sweet ; otherwise it was excellent. 
Death of F. T. Rivers, Esq., Y.M.H. 
Geo. Bunyard, Esq., V.M.H., proposed, and Philip Crowley, Esq., 
seconded, that the following resolution be sent to Mrs. Rivers and family, 
and be also entered on the Minutes of the Committee, viz. 
1st. Resolved that this Committee begs to express its deep sympathy 
with Mrs. Rivers and family on the lamented death of her esteemed 
husband. 
2nd. That this Committee, where Mr. Rivers has for so many years 
given his valuable assistance as a member and Vice-President, cannot let 
this occasion pass without expressing a deep sense of the obligation 
which they and all horticulturists owe to the good work accomplished by 
the late Mr. Rivers in the manifest improvement he effected in our 
British fruits, for which they and posterity will ever be grateful, feeling 
that the name of Rivers wdll rank amongst the foremost of those who 
have advanced the science of pomology. 
The above was read with heads uncovered, and passed unanimously. 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee, Chiswtck, August 31, 1899. 
Philip Crowley, Esq., in the Chair, and six members present. 
The Committee inspected thirty-eight stocks of Potatos, of which 
seven varieties were so good in appearance and cropping that the Com- 
mittee ordered some of each to be cooked, viz. : — 
Ellington's Seedling Queen of July 
Devonian Ridgewell Invincible 
Laxton's No. 3 St. Lawrence 
The Sirdar. 
Awards Recommended 
Highly Commended. 
Potato 'Ellington's Seedling' (votes, unanimous), grown from tubers 
sent by Mr. W. Ellington, West Row Gardens, Mildenhall, Suffolk. 
Potato ' The Sirdar ' (votes, unanimous), grown from tubers sent by 
Messrs. Hurst, Houndsditch. 
