Clxxx PKOCEEDINGS OF THE EOYAL HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee, December 19, 1899. 
J. Cheal, Esq., in the Chair, and thirteen members present. 
Awards Recommended :— 
Silver-gilt Knightian Medal. 
To C. Bayer, Esq., Tewkesbury Lodge, Forest Hill (gr. Mr. W. 
Taylor), for a collection of Grapes. 
Silver-gilt Banksian Medal. 
To Messrs. Cheal, Crawley, for 80 dishes of Apples. 
Silver Banksian Medal. 
To the Earl of Ancaster, Normanton, Stamford (gr. Mr. J. Butler), 
for Apples and Potatos. 
Fig. 146.— ' Stainway Seedling.' 
Aiuard of Merit. 
To Apple ' Stainway Seedling ' (votes G for, 2 against) ; from Mr. 
T. H. Kettle, King's Ford, Colchester. Fruit large, conical ; eye closed and 
puckered in a very shallow basin ; stalk thin, half- inch long, and not 
very deeply inserted ; skin a bright pale yellow ; flesh rather soft and 
somewhat acid in flavour. The tree is described as a good bearer, and 
the fruit valuable for cooking. (Figs. 145, 140.) 
C u Itn ra I Commend a tion . 
To Mr. T. Edington, gardener to Lord Ducie, Tortworth Court, Fal- 
