598 Report of the Live-Stock exhibited at the Society's Meeting. 
to compete with cottage-gardeners' exhibitions : and to allow 
half-a-dozen pods, or half-a-dozen roots, or fruits to be accepted 
as a specimen ; but the effect of heat and light will make the 
very best lots to go off before the close of the Show if any 
quantity be exhibited together, whilst the date of the Society's 
Meeting is too early to admit apples or pears of the year to be 
in abundance. Altogether it is plain both that the prize-list 
for this department will have to be thoroughly revised, and that 
probably a special local committee, knowing the growth of the 
district in which the Meeting of the year is held, will have 
to be called in to advise each year's schedule. As things 
were, the display at Reading only made evident how very 
rudimentary at present is the education of occupiers of land 
in the very necessary art of how to display to advantage the 
minw products of the farm. 
Meport of the Judges of Fruits and Vegetables. 
We regret that the fruit and vegetable exhibition is very poor and altogether 
inferior ; that we have had as much or more difiBculty in awarding the prizes 
than had there been a keener competition and grander show. Many of the 
classes Avere not represented, others hardly so, with only one or two entries of 
inferior merit. We hope in the future the exhibition will be more generally 
known, the exhibits more numerous, and the competition more keen, as it 
ought to be, considering the very liberal prizes ofl'ered by the Society in 
encouragement of this particular industry. We hope the present exhibitors 
will not be discouraged, but in future will send in their exhibits so good and 
numerous as to be worthy of the Eoyal Agricultural Society of England. 
William Chambers. 
Hekry Swaxx. 
In taking leave of the Show it seems only right to state that 
the inevitable inconveniences — which arise from the presence of 
a large influx of hurried strangers — were never less oppressive 
than they were on this occasion. Necessaries of all kinds were 
forthcoming, upon fair terms ; and neither, in site nor access, 
was there any falling away, from its own high standard, in the 
Exhibition of the Royal in 1882. 
