FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE, NOVEMBER 8. 
CXC111 
Canon Ellacombe, of Bitton, sent a fruiting spray of 
Diospyros Kaki from a large plant that has been grown for 
many years in the open air. 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee, November 8, 1898. 
Philip Crowley, Esq., in the Chair, and fifteen members 
present. 
Awards recommended 
Gold Medal . 
To Messrs. Bunyard, of Maidstone, for 100 dishes of Dessert 
Apples. 
Cultural Commendation . 
To Mr. James Vert, gardener to Lord Braybrook at Audley 
End, for ‘ Coe’s Golden Drop ’ Plums. 
To the grower of fruits of Cyphomandra betacea (the Tree 
Tomato), from the Royal Gardens, Kew. They were from a 
plant two years old and 10 ft. high, which has borne over two 
hundred fruits which have ripened in succession during the past 
six weeks. It requires warm greenhouse treatment, as it comes 
from Brazil. It is grown in the Mexican House at Kew. 
Other Exhibits. 
Messrs. Jones, of Shrewsbury, sent a really fine sample of 
* Beurre Clairgeau ’ Pears: “ They are a second crop taken 
from the same tree this year. We gathered a very heavy crop 
averaging 9 oz. each in the end of September, and the present 
fruits are from blossoms set in August.” 
The Earl of Galloway (gr. Mr. Day), Garliestown, N.B., sent 
beautiful examples of Apple ‘ James Grieve,’ a soft-fleshed, 
melting, very sweet, and excellent-flavoured Apple raised by 
Messrs. Dickson, of Edinburgh. 
Messrs. Yarde & Co., of Northampton, sent a seedling Apple 
of very brilliant scarlet colour. Eye open in a slight depression, 
stalk very short in a deep cavity lined more or less with brown. 
Not very unlike the old ‘ Sops in Wine.’ 
Mr. R. Morse, of Bath, sent specimens, both raw and cooked, 
of ‘ Windsor Castle ’ Potato grown in a garden and also in a 
