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Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. Lane also sent some very interesting Blenheim 

 Orange Apples very highly coloured. They were said by Mr. 

 Lane to have originated in a sport which, being grafted on to 

 Paradise stocks, had been perpetuated, and it was proposed to 

 call it Scarlet Blenheim. Dr. Hogg stated that the origin of the 

 Scarlet Golden Pippin was a sport from Golden Pippin. 



Messrs. John Laing & Sons exhibited Pear President 

 Drouard and Fondante de Fondre, which it was requested 

 might be seen again. 



A. Pears, Esq., Spring Grove (gr. Mr. Farr), sent a well- 

 cultivated Tomato named All the Year Round. It greatly 

 resembled the variety know as Chiswick Red. 



Fruit Committee, December 11, 1894. 

 T. F. Rivers, Esq., in the Chair, and nineteen members present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Silver Gilt Knightian Medal. 

 To Messrs. G. Bunyard & Co., Maidstone, for one hundred 

 varieties of culinary Apples, the specimens being extremely fine 

 and in remarkably fresh and good condition. Varieties specially 

 to be noted were Gascoigne's Seedling, intensely coloured ; 

 Baumann's Red Winter Reinette, Bismarck, Newton Wonder, 

 Annie Elizabeth, Mrs. Barron, Flanders Pippin, Lane's Prince 

 Albert, Golden Noble, and Striped Beefing. 



Other Exhibits. 



Mrs. Wingfield, Ampthill (gr. Mr. Empson), sent bunches of 

 Gros Colmar Grape. 



E. A. Hanbury, Esq., Belmont, Eastbourne (gr. Mr. Porteous), 

 sent several Melons of fairly good quality for so very late in the 

 season. 



Mr. A. G. Nicholls, of Nuneham Park Gardens, Abingdon, 

 sent a Cucumber of the Telegraph section. 



Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Holloway, brought a Tomato 

 named New Winter, similar to the Early Red. 



Lady Fortescue, Dropmore (gr. Mr. Herrin), sent an Apple 

 named Farmer's Glory, a large well-flavoured fruit. 



