FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE APRIL 12. 
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FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE. 
April 12, 1898. 
Philip Crowley, Esq., in the Chair, and seventeen members 
present. 
Awards Recommended 
Cultural Commendation. 
To Mr. J. Miller, gardener to Lord Foley, Huxley Lodge, 
Esher, for a very fine basket of Mushrooms, grown on ridges out 
of doors. 
To Mr. E. Beckett, gardener to Lord Aldenham, Elstree, for 
a grand basket of forced ‘ Royal Sovereign ’ Strawberries. 
To Mr. Jas. McLeod, gardener to J. P. Morgan, Esq., Dover 
House, Roehampton, for a superb basket of ‘ Brown Turkey ’ 
Figs. 
Other Exhibits. 
Mr. James Hicks, 8 Hatton Garden, W.C., sent a specimen 
of bis Alarm Thermometer. The thermometer is hung in any 
glass-house, and the gardener on leaving the house, either by 
day or by night, sets the thermometer at any degree of heat or 
cold which he does not wish the temperature of the house to 
pass above or below, and as soon as the temperature reaches the 
point at which the gardener has set the instrument it imme¬ 
diately rings a bell in the gardener’s bedroom, or in the bothy, 
or anywhere else it may be desired, thus warning him either 
that the fires need making up or that the ventilators need open¬ 
ing. The instrument is exceedingly simple, and should prove 
an excellent watch-dog for the gardener. 
Mr. W. W. Bull, Ramsden, Billericay, sent a seedling Apple 
‘ Aurora,’ like a small ‘ Court Pendu Plat ’ in appearance, and in 
flavour like ‘ Lamb Abbey Pearmain.’ The Committee would 
like to see it a month earlier in the year, before it has begun to 
shrivel. 
