PART II. 



GREAT EXHIBITION OF AND CONFERENCE 

 ON BRITISH-GROWN FRUIT, 



Held at the Crystal Palace, September 29 and 

 October 1 and 2, 1894. 



For many years the Directors of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham 

 have held a large Autumn Fruit Show, which had come to be 

 regarded by gardeners throughout the country as the principal 

 Annual Exhibition of British-grown Fruit in the Kingdom. This 

 Show the Directors of the Palace discontinued in 1893, and in 

 the spring of 1894 an appeal was made to the Council of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society to step in and fill up the gap thus 

 left in the year's horticultural meetings. The Crystal Palace 

 offered to assist the Society by lending the building and con- 

 tributing £100 towards the working expenses, &c. The Secretary 

 of the R.H.S. then issued an appeal to all interested in fruit 

 culture in this country to contribute a sum of not less than £100 

 towards the prizes, and on condition of this sum being raised the 

 Council of the Society agreed to accept the responsibility of the 

 Show and to combine with it a Conference on British Fruit 

 Culture. 



Those whose names are given below kindly and generously 

 responded to the invitation, and to them, in conjunction with 

 the Royal Horticultural Society and the Crystal Palace Company, 

 the 1894 Autumn Fruit Show was due. 



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