228 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Class 163.— Nouvelle Fulvie. 
1. Lord Braybrooke. 
2. Roger Leigh, Esq. 
Class 164. — Pitmaston Duchess. 
1. Earl of Ashburnham. 
2. Roger Leigh, Esq. 
Class 165.— Seckle. 
1. Captain Carstairs. 
2. Col. H. Walpole. 
Class 166. — Souvenir du Congres. 
1. G. H. Hadfield, Esq. 
2. F. W. Thomas, Esq. 
Class 167. — Thompson's, 
1. Lord Suffield. 
2. Lord Hillingdon. 
Class 168. — Triomphe de Vienne. 
1. Lord Poltimore. 
2. Alfred de Rothschild, Esq. 
Class 169.— Winter Nelis. 
1. H. Padwick, Esq. 
2. Roger Leigh, Esq. 
Class 170. — Any other variety. 
An Exhibitor may only enter one variety in Class 170. 
1. Roger Leigh, Esq. 
2. Earl Stanhope. 
OTHER EXHIBITS. 
Outside the Schedule there were numerous beautiful collections of 
Flowers, but the Show being essentially a Fruit Show these can receive 
less notice than they deserve. 
By far the most interesting thing to fruit growers was a collection 
of Apples, shown by the Principal (A. D. Hall, Esq.) of the South- 
E astern Agricultural College at Wye, in Kent, to illustrate by actual 
experiment the effect of Manures on Apples. In the year 1897 five 
precisely similar two-year-old trees of ' Bismarck ' Apple worked on 
Paradise stock were planted in large tubs in light chalky loam and 
plunged in the open ground. All received exactly the same treatment in 
every respect except the manure, of which each tub received a different 
mixture, but each individual tub received the same mixture repeated in 
1898, 1899, and 1900. After the fruit had all set and pipped, each plant 
was thinned until they all carried exactly the same number of fruits (a 
