FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE, SEPTEMBER 6. 
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Award of Merit. 
This award was unanimously recommended for all the Onions, 
Potatos, Tomatos, and Beet, which had been highly commended 
at Chiswick on August 80. (See pages ‘221, 228, 283, and 898.) 
Cultural Commendation. 
To Mr. Pocock (gr. to Lord Foley, Ruxley Lodge),, for 
Peaches ‘ Princess of Wales.’ 
To Mr. J. Cole (gr. to H. Faure Walker, Esq., Balcombe), for 
Morello Cherries. 
To Mr. J. Day (gr. to the Earl of Galloway, Garliestown), for 
Peaches ‘Eaily Grosse Mignonne,’ and Nectarines ‘Rivers’s 
Orange,’ grown in the open air. 
To Mr. Robinson, Elsfield, for Peaches ‘ Sea Eagle,’ ‘ Princess 
of Wales,’ and ‘Lord Palmerston.’ 
To Mr. C. Last (gr. to H. O’Hagan, Esq., Hampton Court), 
for Peaches ‘ Exquisite,’ and Nectarines ‘ Pine Apple ’ and 
‘ Rivers’s Orange.’ 
Other Exhibits. 
Mr. J. Bailey, Farnham, sent a Seedling Apple, probably 
from ‘ Quarrenden.’ 
Messrs. R. Yeitch, of Exeter, sent Melon ‘ Taunton Hero.’ 
Messrs. Laxton, Bedford, sent fruit of Bubus palmatics, and 
Strawberries ‘ Laxton’s Perpetual ’ and ‘ St. Joseph.’ 
E. Sandys Lumsdaine, Esq., Edrom, N.B., sent Apple 
‘ Strawberry Norman.’ 
Mr. E. Holden, Bath, sent a very fine Damson, said to be a 
new variety which originated at Bath. 
Mr. W. Batchelor, Uxbridge, sent Alpine Strawberries from 
seed sown on April 11. 
Sir J. Pease, Bart. (gr. Mr. Mclndoe), sent fruits of the 
hybrid Japanese Plum ‘ Burbank.’ It is a very prolific bearer, 
very early, and excellent in an orchard house, but is said to be 
too tender for out-of-doors in England, although a great favourite 
with fruit farmers in Nova Scotia. 
Mr. Lindsay, Waltham St. Lawrence, sent an Apple very like 
the old ‘ Parsnip Apple.’ 
Messrs. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, sent a new Grape, 
derived from Australia, named ‘ Centennial.’ It had enormous 
