Ixvili PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee, April 26, 1898. 
Philip Crowley, Esq., in the Chair, and sixteen members 
present. 
Awards Recommended 
Silver-gilt BanJcsian Medal. 
To Earl Percy (gr. Mr. Wythes, V.M.H.), Syon House, for a 
group of Vegetables. 
To Mrs. Wingfield (gr. Mr. Empson), Ampthill House, for a 
group of Fruit and Vegetables. 
Award of Merit. 
To Melon ‘ Lord Edward Cavendish ’ (votes, 18 for), from Her 
Majesty the Queen (gr. Mr. Owen Thomas), Windsor. A beau¬ 
tiful fruit of a bright primrose colour, excellently netted, not 
unlike 1 Countess.’ White and deep flesh, very juicy, and of fine 
flavour. 
To ‘ Read’s Sprouting Kale ’ (votes, 9 for, 6 against), from the 
Earl of Carnarvon (gr. Mr. J. Read). This is not a sprouting 
Broccoli, but a very good Ragged Jack Kale, excellent as a late 
spring green. 
Cultural Commendation. 
To Mr. H. T. Martin, gardener to Lord Leigh, Stoneleigh 
Abbey, for magnificent Seakale, some of the heads weighing 
considerably over a pound, and sweet and tender as well. 
Other Exhibits. 
Mr. H. Grimes, Ryde, sent a dish of ‘ Grange’s Pearmain ’ 
Apples in first-rate condition. The fruits were of very bright 
colour, yellow flaked with crimson; a very large, deeply set 
closed eye ; and a very short stalk in a shallow depression. The 
peculiarity of this variety is that the same tree generally pro¬ 
duces fruits of two shapes, some flat, some conical. 
Messrs. James Veitch, Chelsea, sent a Broccoli ‘ Market 
Favourite.’ 
A. Bull, Esq., Cottenham, sent an Apple ‘ Queenholme Seed¬ 
ling.’ To look at it was very like a ‘ Hawthornden,’ but so much 
later. It was rather dry. 
Mr. Outram, Fulham, sent a Thermometer Holder. 
Mr. J. Hicks, Hatton Garden, E.C., sent his Alarm Thermo¬ 
meter. 
