FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE, SEPTEMBER 6. 



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Award of Merit. 

 This award was unanimously recommended for all the Onions, 

 Potatos, Tomatos, and Beet, which had been highly commended 

 at Chiswick on August 30. (See pages 221, 228, 263, and 398.) 



Cultural Commendation. 



To Mr. Pocock (gr. to Lord Foley, Buxley Lodge), for 

 Peaches 1 Princess of Wales.' 



To Mr. J. Cole (gr. to H. Faure Walker, Esq., Balcombe), for 

 Morello Cherries. 



To Mr. J. Day (gr. to the Earl of Galloway, Garliestown), for 

 Peaches 'Eaily Grosse Mignonne,' and Nectarines 'Bivers's 

 Orange,' grown in the open air. 



To Mr. Robinson, Elsfield, for Peaches ' Sea Eagle,' ' Princess 

 of Wales,' and * Lord Palmerston.' 



To Mr. C. Last (gr. to H. O'Hagan, Esq., Hampton Court), 

 for Peaches ' Exquisite,' and Nectarines 1 Pine Apple ' and 

 1 Bivers's Orange.' 



Other Exhibits. 



Mr. J. Bailey, Farnham, sent a Seedling Apple, probably 

 from ' Quarrenden.' 



Messrs. B. Veitch, of Exeter, sent Melon ' Taunton Hero.' 



Messrs. Laxton, Bedford, sent fruit of Rubus palmatus, and 

 Strawberries ' Laxton's Perpetual ' and 4 St. Joseph.' 



E. Sandys Lumsdaine, Esq., Edrom, N.B., sent Apple 

 1 Strawberry Norman.' 



Mr. E. Holden, Bath, sent a very fine Damson, said to be a 

 new variety which originated at Bath. 



Mr. W. Batchelor, Uxbridge, sent Alpine Strawberries from 

 seed sown on April 11. 



Sir J. Pease, Bart. (gr. Mr. Mclndoe), sent fruits of the 

 hybrid Japanese Plum ' Burbank.' It is a very prolific bearer, 

 very early, and excellent in an orchard house, but is said to be 

 too tender for out-of-doors in England, although a great favourite 

 with fruit farmers in Nova Scotia. 



Mr. Lindsay, Waltham St. Lawrence, sent an Apple very like 

 the old ' Parsnip Apple.' 



Messrs. Bivers, of Sawbridge worth, sent a new Grape, 

 derived from Australia, named * Centennial.' It had enormous 



