clxxvi PEOCEEDINGS OF THE EOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCLETY. 
Mr. Woodward sent two very fine dishes of ' Cox's Orange Pippin,' 
one dish decidedly smaller than the other, to show that the smaller, 
fruits were quite equal in flavour to the larger ones, and of a far more 
useful size for dessert purposes. 
Feuit and Vegetable Committee, Xovembee 21, 1899. 
Philip Crowley, Esq., in the Chair, and nineteen members present. 
Awards Recommended :— 
Silver-gilt Knightian Medal. 
To Mr. J. Basham, Bassaleg, Newport, Mon., for Apples. 
Fig. 142. — Apple ' Bassaleg Pippin.' (Journal of Horticulture.) 
Silver Knightian Medal, 
To Messrs. Laing, Forest Hill, for Apples. 
Silver Banksian Medal. 
To Messrs. Harrison, Leicester, for Vegetables. 
Award of Merit. 
To Apple 'Bassaleg Pippin' (votes 8 for, 4 against), from Mr. J. 
Basham. Fruit of medium size, deep round ; skin yellow and heavily 
striped with bright red on the exposed side ; eye closed and set in a 
shallow basin ; stalk short, thick, and set in a deep ca^•ity ; flesh white, 
crisp, and juicy. (Fig. 142.) 
To Pear ' Double de Guerre' (votes, unanimous), from Frank Lloyd 
