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excellence of the fruit shown at the exhibition, which he said 

 could nowhere, he believed, be excelled. 



Mr. A. H. Pearson proposed " The Press," which was re- 

 sponded to by Mr. Ranger Johnson, F.R.H.S., of the Morning 

 Post. 



CONFERENCE. 

 Saturday, September 29, 1894. 



The Chair was taken by Mr. James Douglas, F.R.H.S., at 

 3.30 p.m. 



Mr. Bunyard, when called upon by the Chairman, said that the 

 paper which he was about to read professed to have been pre- 

 pared by himself and the Rev. W. Wilks, Vicar of Shirley and 

 Secretary of the Society, whose absence through severe illness 

 no one regretted more than himself. But he wished it to be 

 quite plainly understood that, though the paper was in a sense a 

 joint paper, yet it was only so in the sense that Mr. Wilks had 

 clone the lion's share and he had contributed the tail. 



HARDY FRUITS FOR SMALL GARDENS. 



By the Rev. W. Wilks, M.A., Vicar of Shirley, Surrey ; Secretary 

 of the Royal Horticultural Society : and Mr. George 

 Bunyard, F.R.H.S., The Nurseries, Maidstone. 



The three subjects selected for discussion on the afternoons of 

 this Exhibition of British-grown Fruit were not hastily determined. 

 In thinking of the many points connected with fruit-growing, to 

 which it would be well to draw attention, or on which the general 

 public required authoritative information, it was considered that 

 Fruit-growing, both for Cottagers and in tiny gardens, had been 

 sufficiently covered for some years to come by that admirable 

 little pamphlet published by our Society at the price of one half- 

 penny, entitled " Fruits for Cottagers " — a special edition being 



