FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 25 . 
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indeed, if it continue to ripen so late in the season ; but as this 
was the first year the plant had borne fruit, they asked to have 
some sent next year to be sure of its continuing to be a late 
Peach. 
Messrs. McGrady,of Portadown, sent Apple c Castle Favourite.’ 
They were long past their best. 
Mr. J. White sent Tomato ‘ Walker’s Greengage.’ A very 
distinct but hardly desirable variety, resembling a Greengage. 
Mrs. Wingfield (gr. Mr. Empson) sent a seedling Apple, 
4 Bedfordshire Greening.’ A bright green Apple with a red 
cheek, eye closed and in a small and ridged depression, stalk 
short in a deep depression, with silvery white streaks. A fruit 
deserving some attention. 
Mr. Y. Liot, Sydney Park Gardens, sent a seedling Melon. 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee, October 25, 1898. 
Philip Crowley, Esq., in the Chair, and eighteen members 
present. 
Awards Recommended 
Hogg Memorial Medal. 
To Roger Leigh, Esq. (gr. Mr. Woodward), Maidstone, for a 
collection of wonderful Apples. 
Silver Knightian Medal. 
To Messrs. Laing, Forest Hill, for Apples. 
To Messrs. Cheal, of Crawley, for Apples and Pears. 
Silver Banksian Medal. 
To C. A. Pearson, Esq. (gr. Mr. Prewett), Frensham Place, 
for Apples. 
To Lord Aldenham (gr. Mr. Beckett), Elsfcree, for Celery. 
Cultural Commendation. 
To T. C. Bruce, Esq., New Galloway, N.B., for specimens of 
very fine Apples grown in Scotland on a north aspect, 500 ft. 
above the sea, and frost every month of the year. 
To Mr. W. Miller, Coombe Abbey, for very fine fruits of 
Passiflora edulis. 
