FRUIT COMMITTEE, SEPTEMBER 13. 



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Feuit Committee, at Chiswick, September 13, 1892. 



P. Crowley, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair, and fourteen members 



present. 



Awards Recommended : — 



Highly Gomme?ided ( x X x ). 



To Potato- 

 Reading Giant, from Mr. C. Fidler, Reading, Berks. 

 Laxton's Short-top, from Messrs. Laxton Bros., Bedford. 

 Mary Anderson, from Mr. H. Fletcher, Annesley, Notts. 

 The Canon, from Mr. R. Dean, Ranelagh Road, Ealing. 

 King of the Earlies, from Mr. H. Ridgewell, Cambridge. 

 Boston Q Q, from Messrs. W. W. Johnston & Sons, Boston, 



Lincoln. 



Commended ( x x). 

 To Potato— 



Crawley Prizetaker, from Messrs. J. Cheal & Sons, Crawley, 

 Sussex. 



White Round, from Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt. 

 White Russet, from Mr. A. Harris, Wavendon, Bletchley, 

 Bucks. 



Fruit Committee, September 20, 1892. 



Philip Crowley, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair, and seventeen 

 members present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver Gilt Knightian Medal. 

 To Her Majesty the Queen, Frogmore (gardener, Mr. Owen 

 Thomas), for a very large collection of well-grown fruit, viz. : 

 Twelve Smooth Cayenne Pine-apples, weighing from 8 lbs. to 

 9 lbs. each, twelve Melons in variety, twelve varieties of 

 Peaches and seven of Nectarines, nineteen varieties of Plums, 

 seven of Apples and seven of Pears, five varieties of Grapes, 

 including the Black Hamburgh from the two celebrated vines 

 at Hampton Court and Cumberland Lodge, with Mulberries, 

 Quinces, &c, the whole forming probably the most varied and 

 meritorious display of fruit ever exhibited. 



