FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE APRIL 12. 



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FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE. 



April 12, 1898. 



Philip Crowley, Esq., in the Chair, and seventeen members 



present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Cultural Commendation. 



To Mr. J. Miller, gardener to Lord Foley, Huxley Lodge, 

 Esher, for a very fine basket of Mushrooms, grown on ridges out 

 of doors. 



To Mr. E. Beckett, gardener to Lord Aldenham, Elstree, for 

 a grand basket of forced ' Royal Sovereign ' Strawberries. 



To Mr. Jas. McLeod, gardener to J. P. Morgan, Esq., Dover 

 House, Roehampton, for a superb basket of ' Brown Turkey ' 

 Figs. 



Other Exhibits. 



Mr. James Hicks, 8 Hatton Garden, W.C., sent a specimen 

 of his Alarm Thermometer. The thermometer is hung in any 

 glass-house, and the gardener on leaving the house, either by 

 day or by night, sets the thermometer at any degree of heat or 

 cold which he does not wish the temperature of the house to 

 pass above or below, and as soon as the temperature reaches the 

 point at which the gardener has set the instrument it imme- 

 diately rings a bell in the gardener's bedroom, or in the bothy, 

 or anywhere else it may be desired, thus warning him either 

 that the fires need making up or that the ventilators need open- 

 ing. The instrument is exceedingly simple, and should prove 

 an excellent watch-dog for the gardener. 



Mr. W. W. Bull, Ramsden, Billericay, sent a seedling Apple 

 ' Aurora,' like a small 1 Court Pendu Plat ' in appearance, and in 

 flavour like ' Lamb Abbey Pearmain.' The Committee would 

 like to see it a month earlier in the year, before it has begun to 

 shrivel. 



