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good, those of Kamuning being very good for low country cultiva- 
tion. There were several entries for table decoration, Mrs. Fox 
securing the first prize for a pretty arrangement of roses, a table 
decorated with pink and white Honolulu creeper was the next best 
arrangement. 
Vegetables. 
In the classes for vegetables there were some fa rly good exhibits 
but the attraction in this part of the Show was the superb series of 
vegetables from the Perak Hills Gardens shown by Mr. Campbell. 
Here on a circular table were shown peas, carrots of two varieties, 
very large, excellent cabbages, potatoes of unusual size for even our 
hill stations, excellent beet root, tomatos, leeks, radishes, vegetable 
marrows, two varieties, turnips, kohlrabi, celery (exceptionally large) 
artichokes, chocho, parsley, mint and several other vegetables. 
Undoubtedly the finest exhibition of European vegetables ever seen 
in the Peninsula. 
With these were staged some good Cocoa-pods, and some thin 
sheets of Ceara rubber (very clean and good) Castilloa, Rambong, 
and Para rubber. The whole display reflected the greatest credit 
on Mr. CAMPBELL. Of the vegetables shown for competition the 
first prize for collection of vegetables was won by a very poor lot, 
Cucumbers were fairly good, and so were beans of different kinds, 
the rest of the vegetables were very ordinary. 
Fruit. 
The fruit classes were better on the whole and contained some 
very good exhibits, but it was difficult to see on what grounds the 
judges awarded their decisions, as in the cases of durians, pine- 
apples, papayas and pumeloes, the fruits were not even opened, so 
that flavour and condition seemed to be eliminated in deciding the 
comparative value of the fruits. In the case of any fruit not speci- 
ally classed a prize was given to some fruits supposed to be lemons, 
and by some thought to be oranges, but which were really one of 
the citrons of inferior quality. The most noticeable fruits in this 
class were some good avocado pears shown by Mr. COATES, and 
some good pomegranates shewn by Mr. KHEW KlIOOi of Balik 
Pulau, but neither of these exhibits obtained any mark of com- 
mendation. 
But few Rambutans were shown, although the crop seemed to 
be very fine in Penang this year, but the samples were fairly good, 
and the Pulasans better, Tampunet, ( Artocarpus rigida ) a fruitless 
well known to the Eurpoean than it should be was well shown. 
A good number of pines were shown, chiefly Mauritius pines, of 
which the sample which received the first prize was hardly in con- 
dition. There were two samples of black West Indian, one of 
which large but overripe obtained a first prize, the second in better 
condition, were smaller. A second prize w r as won by some field 
pines, (of the Red Ripley style) large but of no particular merit. A 
special prize was awarded to a tall-stemmed pine with a small and 
almost rotten fruit. Perhaps the most interesting pine shewn was 
the Pernambuco ( Abacaxi ) of which three fruits hardly ripe, how- 
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