FRUIT AND VEGETABLE COMMITTEE, NOVEMBER 22 . 
CXCV 
M. S. Morrison, Esq., Finchley, sent a basket of grandly 
coloured ‘ Gascoyne’s Scarlet ’ Apples. 
The Dowager Lady Bowman sent from Joldwyns fruits of 
Akebia quinata: they were somewhat gourd-shaped and of a 
lilac-brown colour covered with a dense white bloom. (Fig. 119.) 
Messrs. Suttons, of Reading, sent a box of magnificent 
Cucumbers ‘ Every Day.’ 
Fruit and Vegetable Committee, November 22, 1898. 
Philip Crowley, Esq., in the Chair, and fifteen members 
present. 
Awards Recommended 
Award of Merit. 
To Apple ‘ Ballinora Pippin ’ (votes unanimous), from 
Messrs. R. Hartland, Lough, Cork. Fruit very large, flattened, 
round; colour a wonderfully deep blood-crimson; eye very 
large, open in a deep slightly ridged depression ; stalk short in 
a small deep depression ; flesh crisp ; flavour good. (Fig. 125.) 
Other Exhibits. 
Mr. A. Ward, Stoke Edith, sent Apple ‘Lady Emily’ not 
very unlike ‘ Bess Pool.’ highly coloured but russety; eye wide 
open in a large ridged basin; stalk very short in a slight 
depression. 
Sir Joseph Pulley (gr. Mr. Williams), Lower Eaton, sent 
Apple ‘ Sir Joseph ’ ; a large yellow fruit streaked with crimson ; 
eye like a ‘ Blenheim,’ but in a deep ridged basin ; stalk very 
short in a very deep depression. The Committee would like to 
see it again next year. 
Mrs. Dunbar, Heath Park, sent Onion ‘ Ne Plus Ultra.’ It 
was very like ‘ Ailsa Craig,’ but as it was recommended as being- 
such a very long keeping variety, the bulbs were ordered to be kept 
at Chiswick with some of ‘Ailsa Craig,’ and both to be brought 
up in April. 
Mr. Tallack, Livermere Park, sent a seedling Apple, small, 
golden-yellow, streaked with red; eye wide open in a very wide 
basin ; stalk short in a very slight depression. The Committee 
would like to see it earlier in the season. 
