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PREFACE 



This volume contains a report of the Fruit Conference held on 

 October 10, 11, and 12, 1905, under the joint auspices of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society and the National Fruit Growers' 

 Federation. The Society invited the National Fruit Growers' 

 Federation to unite with them in a joint Conference. This 

 suggestion they very cordially accepted, and to their hearty co- 

 operation the success of the Conference was largely due. The 

 Conference extended over three days. It was opened by Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., who took the Chair at the first 

 meeting. 



The Society held their first Fruit Conference in October 1883, 

 at their Gardens at Chiswick, when Apples were the only fruit 

 under consideration. A Pear Conference was subsequently held 

 in 1885. As the importance of fruit cultivation was rapidly being 

 recognised by the public, the Society held another Conference, 

 on Apples and Pears, in October 1888, in the large Vinery at 

 Chiswick, in order to bring together all the available information 

 as to the best varieties of those fruits and the best means of 

 cultivating them. The result of this Conference^ is embodied in 

 a report which with " certain statistics obtained at the Society's 

 Apple Congress, held at Chiswick in 1883," forms the tenth 

 volume of the Journal of this Society. In that report will be 

 found a descriptive catalogue of the Apples exhibited at the Con- 

 ference in 1883 and at that in 1888. In this present volume 

 is given a list of the various fruits certificated by the Society, 

 compiled by Mr. S. T. "Wright, the Superintendent of the Society's 

 Gardens at Wisley. This will complete the list of the most notable 

 Apples in cultivation in this country up to the present time. 



The Fruit Conference last year was held in the Society's House 

 in Vincent Square, and their Annual Show of British -grown 



