CXviii PEOCEEDINGS OF THE EOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The Key. Darnley Smith, Landsgrove Vicarage, Ashburfcon, sent his 
patent 'Fruit-protectors.' These had been tested at Chiswick and found 
very useful for protecting choice Apples and Pears. After being enclosed 
for two months no difference could be found in the size, colour, or flavour 
of the fruits when compared with those grown without protection. The 
Committee considered that they would be very useful for amateurs, and 
where a comparatively small number of fruits required protection. They 
would, however, require to be made in various sizes. (See Vol. XXIII. , 
p. xxxix.) 
Capt. C. Shepherd, Trosley, Maidstone, sent Peach * Princess May,' 
raised from a stone of Nectarine ' Victoria.' A large fruit with a pale 
skin and fine flavour, reminding one of a very late Alexandra Noblesse. 
Mr. K. W. Green, Wisbech, sent Apple ' Emmeth Early,' syn. ' Early 
Victoria.' (See p. cxi.) 
Messrs. R. Hartland, Cork, sent Apples ' Stone Peach' and 'Hartland's 
Pearmain.' 
Lord Suffield, Gunton Park (gr. Mr. W. Allen), sent Melon ' Gunton 
Scarlet,' which received an Award of Merit October 11, 1898. 
B. Buys, Esq., Dedemsvaart, Holland, sent Runner Beans ' Moerheim 
Stringless White.' The specimens sent were too old to judge fairly of. 
The Committee hoped they might have seed of them at Chiswick next 
year. 
Earl of Derby, Knowsley, Prescot (gr. R. Doe), sent Melon ' Countess 
of Derby.' 
Messrs. J. R. Pearson, Chilwell, sent a seedling Grape Bowood 
Muscat ^ X Gros Colmar 9 , grown on a pot vine. Bunch of medium size, 
berries roundish oval, amber, flesh crisp and of good flavour. It was 
requested that it be sent again at a later meeting. 
R. R. Taylor, Esq., Westbury, sent specimens of grafting, in which 
the union is covered with a band of indiarubber, or American cloth. 
The method appeared very cleanly, and to have been a decided success. 
C. Curtis, Esq., F.L.S., sent fruits of the Mangosteen, from Penang. 
Some had been waxed over, and others not, but unfortunately none of 
them had kept. 
Mr. W. Iggulden, Frome, sent Apple ' Winter Hillary.' 
Prize. 
The Sherwood Silver Cup, value £10. 10s., offered to the exhibitor 
who, being an amateur or a gentleman's gardener, shall obtain the 
highest total number of marks at the meetiiigs on June 13 and Sep- 
tember 26 for collections of vegetables, was awarded to the Right Hon. 
Lord Aldenham, Aldenham House, Elstree (gr. Mr. E. Beckett). The 
Judges were Mr. W. Bates, Mr. Geo. Norman, Mr. Poupart, Mr. Wythes, 
V.M.H., and Mr. John Wright, V.M.H. 
