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The entries for fruit were tolerably good, especially in compe¬ 
tition for Messrs. Jas. Yeitch and Sons special prizes. Some 
remarkably fine Peaches, Nectarines, and Strawberries were 
shown. 
Of vegetables, there was a good display, both in the Open and 
in the Cottagers and Artisans Classes. 
The exhibition of horticultural buildings and appliances was 
very complete and extensive, and manifested considerable advance 
in elegance of design and lightness of structure, combined with 
many valuable practical improvements. 
Prom a horticultural point of view the Preston Exhibition will 
rank amongst the best that have ever been held under the auspices 
of the Society. 
July 23, 1878. 
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 
Colonel R. Teevoe Clarke, Yice-President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 
Elections .—Mrs. Thomas Dent, Charles J. Dimond, Mrs. Eolton 
King. 
The Awards of the Eruit and Ploral Committees were 
announced, and the Assistant Secretary addressed the Pellows 
present on the subject of Carnations and Picotees, and other inter¬ 
esting plants shown. Upon this occasion was held the Annual 
Show of the Carnation and Picotee Society, which added con¬ 
siderable attraction to the Meeting. 
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 
Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, E.R.S., Y.P., in the Chair. 
Tea-Leaf Disease. — Mr. McLachlan reported that he had 
examined the leaves which had been referred to him at a previons 
meeting. They had evidently been put into a book, pressed and 
dried; they appeared to have been punctured by some insect, but 
it was impossible to say by what. It might be the red spider, but 
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