FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE, MAY 10. 
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Fruit and Vegetable Committee, May 10, 1898. 
Philip Crowley, Esq., in the Chair, and twenty members 
present. 
Awards Recommended 
Silver Knightian Medal. 
To the Marquis of Salisbury (gr. Mr. Norman), Hatfield 
House, for Strawberries ‘ Royal Sovereign.’ 
Award of Merit. 
To Radish ‘ Forcing White Olive * (votes, unanimous), from 
Messrs. Sutton, Reading. 
To Radish ‘Forcing Carmine Oval’ (votes, unanimous), 
from Messrs. Sutton, Reading. 
To Radish ‘ First of All White Olive * (votes, unanimous), 
from Messrs. Barr, Covent Garden. 
To Radish ‘ First of All Scarlet Olive ’ (votes, unanimous), 
from Messrs. Barr. 
To Radish ‘ Woods Frame Red ’ (votes, unanimous), from 
Messrs. Watkins & Simpson, Strand. 
[All the above Radishes had been grown at Chiswick, and it 
was considered that the first and third were identical, and also 
the second and fourth.] 
Cultural Commendation. 
To Mr. J. Ryder, gr. to the Countess of Limerick, St. 
Albans, for 1 Alexander ’ Peach. 
To Mr. J. Hudson (gr. to Leopold de Rothschild, Esq., 
Gunnersbury House), for Nectarine ‘ Cardinal.’ 
Other Exhibits, 
A. Henderson, Esq. (gr. Mr. Bastin), Buscot Park, sent 
Strawberries, and Melon ‘ Buscot Park,’ a cross between 
Countess ’ arid ‘ Hero of Lockinge.’ 
Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt, sent a pale coloured Aspara¬ 
gus called ‘ White Columbian.’ 
Earl Percy (gr. Mr. Wythes), Syon House, showed a collection 
of French Beans, grown from seeds sown on March 28 ; also a 
new Cabbage Lettuce. 
C. Bayer, Esq. (gr. Mr. Taylor), Forest Hill, sent fruits of 
‘ Waterloo * Peaches, grown on pot trees. 
