XXIV PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Ivy Sports. —Dr. Masters exhibited sprays of a peculiar 
small-leaved dwarf Ivy, remarkable for sending up vertical shoots 
with distichous leaves, though unattached to a wall. The habit 
appears to have become fixed, even in free-growing branches. 
On some shoots, however, the leaves were spirally arranged, as 
is usual on such branches. It may be observed that the change 
from the distichous arrangement of the leaves on the horizontal 
branches of the common Laurel to a spiral one, when the boughs 
grow erect, is common ; but it is not a fixed character. 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE. 
January 11, 1898. 
Philip Crowley, Esq., in the Chair, and seventeen members 
present. 
Awards Recommended 
Silver Knightian Medal. 
To Mr. J. Bury, Petersham Byfleet, for a collection of 
Grapes. 
To Mrs. Wingfield, Ampthill (gr. Mr. Empson), for 30 dishes 
of Apples. 
First-class Certificate. 
To Pear ‘ President Barabe 5 (votes, 12 for), from Mr. Allan, 
Gunton Park. ( See vol. XXI. p. cciii.) 
Cultural Commendation. 
To Mr. J. Miller, Buxley Lodge Gardens, Esher, for 
Mushrooms. 
To Messrs. Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, for Citrons. 
Other Exhibits. 
Mr. J. Walker, Thame, sent an Apple, ‘ Chilton Beauty.’ It 
was considered very close to ‘Bess Pool,’ differing only in the 
base and in having a greenish flesh. 
Messrs. Rivers, Sawbridgeworth, sent Grapes, * Directeur 
Tisseraud ’ and ‘ Mrs. Pearson,’ to show how well these varieties 
keep. 
Mr. Thomas Rochford, Turnford Hall, sent a new Grape, 
