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regard to soil, exposure, and physical conditions of the districts from 
which they are gathered. No limit will be put upon the number 
which anyone may see fit to send, and it is not at all necessary 
that they should be the product of his own grounds. The Committee 
desire that an effort be made to procure representatives of all the 
varieties that are grown in the various districts, and that all should 
he distinctly labelled with the name or names tinder which they may 
he known in their respective localities. 
“ As the specimens sent are strictly for examination, they must 
necessarily be at the disposal of the Committee where required. 
“ All packages addressed to the Secretary must be delivered on 
or before the 3rd of October. Exhibitors staging their own fruit 
may do so on the 3rd or morning of the 4th, to be ready for the 
inspection of the Committee. Notice of intention to exhibit must be 
given to Mr. Barron not later than the 29th September, stating the 
number of varieties to be exhibited, or the amount of space that 
will be required. 
“ All exhibitors will be admitted to the gardens free, and they 
will receive a certain number ot tickets, according to the extent of 
their exhibits, for the admission of friends. 
“ The public are admitted to the gardens on payment of 6 d. 
“ Growers of fruit will have in this Exhibition an opportunity of 
correcting or verifying the nomenclature of their fruits, by bringing 
specimens with them, and making a personal comparison. 
“ The following have been appointed a Committee to carry out 
the objects of the Congress in various parts of the country :— 
Blackmore, R. D , Teddington. 
Britcher, G., Tunbridge. 
Brotberston, R. P., Tyningharre. 
Bunyard & Co , Nurseries, Maidstone. 
Burnett, J., The Gardens, The Deepdene, 
Dorking. 
Cheat & Sons, Nurserymen, Crawley, 
Sussex. 
Cranston, & Co., Nurserymen. Hereford. 
Dancer, F. N., Little Sutton, Chiswick. 
Dickson, F. & A., 106, Eastgate Street, 
Ch ester. 
Dickson, James, 108, Eastgate Street, 
Chester. 
Dickson, A. & Sons, Newtownards, Belfast. 
Dunn, lit., The Gardens, Dalkeith Palace, 
N.B. 
Fisher, Son, & Sibray, Nurserymen, Shef¬ 
field. 
Garland, John, The Gardens, Killerton, 
Exeter. 
Gilbert, R., The Gardens, Burghley, Stam¬ 
ford. 
Goldsmith, G., The Gardens, Hollanden, 
Tonbridge. 
Graham, John, Cranford, Hounslow. 
Grieve, Peter, Bury St. Edmunds. 
Harrison & Sons, Nurserymen, Leicester. 
Haycock, Chas., The Gardens, Barham 
Court, Maidstone. 
Hibberd, Shirley, Brownswood Park, Stoke 
Newington. 
Hogg, Dr. Robert, 171, Fleet Street, E.C. 
Jefferies, John, & Sons, Nurserymen, 
Cirencester. 
Jefferies & Sons, Nurserymen, Oxford. 
Jones, T., The Royal Gardens, Frogmore. 
Killick, Lewis A., Langley, Maidstone. 
Lane, H., & Son, Nurserymen, Berkhamp- 
stead. 
Laxton, T., Bedford. 
Lee, Chas., & Son, The Nurseries, Ham¬ 
mersmith. 
Lee, John, 78, Warwick Gardens, S.W. 
Miles, G. T., The Gardens, Wycombe 
Abbey, High Wycombe. 
Ormiston & Renwick, Nurserymen, Mel¬ 
rose, N.B. 
Pearson, J. R., The Nurseries, Chihvel], 
Notts. 
Paul & Son, The Nurseries, Cheshunt. 
Paul, Wm, & Son, The Nurseries, Waltham 
Cross. 
Poynter, Robert, Nurseryman, Taunton. 
Rivers & Son, The Nurseries, Sawbridge- 
worth. 
Roberts, J., The Gardens, Gnnnersbury 
Park, Acton. 
Ross, Charles, The Gardens, Welford Park, 
Newbury. 
Rutland, F., The Gardens, Goodwood, 
Chichester. 
Saltmarsh & Sons, The Nurseries, Chelms¬ 
ford. 
Shingles, Thomas, The Gardens, Tort worth 
Court, Gloucester. 
Smith, James, The Gardens, Mentmore, 
Leighton Buzzard. 
Smith, R., & Sons, The Nurseries, Wor¬ 
cester. 
Stevens, Z., The Gardens, Trentham, 
Stoke on Trent. 
Strickland, Sir Charles, Bart., Ilildenley, 
Malton, Yorkshire. 
Turner, Charles, Slough. 
Yeitch & Sons, Nurserymen, Chelsea. 
Wheeler & Son, Nurserymen, Gloucester. 
Woodbridge, John, The Gardens, Syon 
House, Brentford. 
“Any further information that may be required may be obtained on 
application to the Secretary, Mr. A. F. Barron, Royal Horticultural 
Garden?, Chiswick ; or to Mr. L. Killick, LaDgley, Maidstone.” 
N.B.—At a meeting of the Sub-committee held at Chiswick on 
September 18th, John Lee, Esq., in the chair, it was decided that 
exhibitors be requested to send not less than two fruits of a kind, or 
more than six, for the purpose of examination. 
All packages should be addressed to the Secretary, Mr. A. F. Barron, 
Royal Horticultural Society’s Gardens, Chiswick ; the charges for carriage 
of the same will be defrayed by the Society. 
Admission to the public will be Is. on the 4th, and Gd. on other days. 
INTERNATIONAL POTATO SHOW. 
September 13th and 14th. 
“The finest exhibition of Potatoes ever seen in England” was the 
general verdict of horticulturists who visited the Crystal Palace last 
Thursday and Friday, and the officials connected with this scheme had 
every reason to be satisfied with the results of their untiring efforts ; for 
never since the Show was commenced some ten years since have the exhibits 
been so numerous and clean, even, and devoid of coarseness. A table about 
150 yards long in the north nave was filled with the entries in the principal 
classes, the centre of the table between the different classes being filled 
with small specimen Palms, Ferns, and miscellaneous plants that served to 
break the monotony considerably. On each side of the chief table were 
others slightly shorter, and devoted to the exhibits not in competition, 
which were similarly abundant and interesting. Some idea of the extent of 
the Show can be gathered from the following numbers, which far exceed 
those of any previous year. In the twenty-one classes enumerated in the 
schedule 375 collections were staged, the entries being about 30 per cent, in 
advance of last year. These included nearly 2000 dishes, or a total of over 
19.000 tubers, and in the non-competing exhibits there would probably be 
10,000 more. In the leading classes, too, the competition was extraordinarily 
keen, no less than seventeen collections of twenty-four dishes, which were 
so nearly equal in exhibition merits that the Judges had a most difficult 
task in selecting the premier. Mr. Gribble’s fine examples were, however, 
worthily adjudged chief honours, and in the opinion of many experienced' 
Potato exhibitors such a perfect collection had never been staged before. 
In the eighteen-dishes class, again, there were twenty entries, similar 
numbers staging in classes L and N, while in S there were twenty-three, 
J and F twenty-one, II and D twenty-five ; but in E, for six dishes, no less- 
than thirty lots were contributed. 
The Show was opened at noon by Mr. Alderman de Keyser in the absence 
of the Lord Mayor, and the former gentleman also presided at the luncheon 
subsequently held in the Marble Hall, when he was supported by Mr. 
Alderman Hadley and Mr. McGeorge, Chairman of the Crystal Palace 
Company; Mr. P. McKinlay and Mr. Shirley Hibberd taking the vice 
chairs. 
Class A, twenty-four dishes of Potatoes, distinct varieties, nine tubers 
of each (open). First prize, £10 10s.; second, £7 7s. ; third, £5 5s.; fourth, 
£3 3s. ; fifth, £2 2s.; sixth, £1 Is. The first prize was given by Mr. 
Alderman de Keyser, Sheriff of London and Middlesex ; the second, Mr. 
Alderman Hadley ; the third. James McIntosh, Esq., Weybridge ; the fourth, 
R. Russell, Esq., Mayor of Derby ; the fifth, L. Fawell, Esq., 4, St. Paul’s 
Churchyard, London; and the sixth, Wm. Holloway, Esq., 6, St. Paul’s 
Churchyard, London. This formed the most important class of the 
Exhibition, seventeen collections being staged, all of remarkable evenness, 
and so nearly equal in merit that the Judges had a most difficult task in 
determining the relative positions of the exhibits, and nearly an hour had 
elapsed before their decisions were made known. Mr. Gribble, Canon Hill, 
Maidenhead, was awarded the premier prize for a beautiful even collection,, 
the tubers of moderate size, but distinguished by their symmetry and 
cleanness. The varieties were Vicar of Laleham, International, Matchless,. 
Fillbasket, Prizetaker Kidney, Covent Garden Perfection, Improved Peach 
Blow, Bedfont Prolific, American Purple, Magnum Bonum, Beauty of Kent, 
Reading Hero, Adirondack, Woodstock, Mr. Bresee, King of Potatoes, 
Heather Bell, Porter’s Excelsior, Extra Early Vermont, Cosmopolitan, 
Reading Russet, Schoolmaster, Beauty of Hebron, and Early Regent. Mr. J. 
Hughes, gardener to Col. Cartwright, Eydon Hall, Byfield, Northamptonshire, 
was awarded second honours with a collection of very similar merit, hand¬ 
some dishes of Mr. Bresee, Edgcott Seedling, Suttons’ Piizetaker, Porter’s 
Excelsior, International, and Advance. Mr. W. Kerr, Dargavell, Dumfrie 1 ', 
secured the third position. Mr. Robins, gardener to E. D. Lee, Esq., 
Aylesbury, was fourth. Mr. W. Ellington, West Row Gardens, Mildenhall, 
was fifth ; and Mr. T. Pickworth, Loughborough, sixth. 
Class B, eighteen dishes of Potatoes, distinct varieties, nine tubers of 
each. Open to noblemen’s and gentlemen’s gardeners only, and the awards 
to be made by three gentlemen’s gardeners, not competitors. First prize, 
£7 7s.; second, £5 5s.; third, £3 3s. ; fourth, £2 2s. ; fifth £1 Is. All the prizes- 
were given (in cash or plate) by Messrs. Sutton & Sons, Reading. In this 
class also the competition was extraordinarily keen, twenty exhibitors 
entering and staging a total of 3(10 dishes, which required almost as much 
careful consideration as those in the previous class, for there were few- 
faulty examples in any of the collections. Mr. Hughes won premier honours 
with a very handsome collection of moderate size tubers of the following 
varieties:—Adirondack, Jackson’d Improved. Suttons’ Reading Russet, 
Porter’s Excelsior, Radstock Beauty, Suttons’ Fillbasket, Beauty of Hebron, 
Woodstock Kidney, Mr. Bresee, White Emperor, Vicar of Laleham, Snowdrop, 
Queen of the Valley, Myatt’s Ashleaf, Suttons’ Prizetaker, Lady Truscott, Red 
Fluke, and Edgcott Seedling. Mr. H. Clarke, Woodstock, was placed second 
with neat tubers of Porter’s Excelsior, Grampian, Farren’s Kidney, Manhattan, 
Edgcott Seedling, Blanchard, Early Border, Model, Salmon Kidney, Inter¬ 
national, Beauty of Hebron, Woodstock Kidney, Triumph, Magnum Bonum, 
Radstock Beauty, Webbs’ Surprise, Vicar of Laleham, and Bedfont Prolific. 
Mr. E. S. Wills was placed third with good samples, Mr. W. Robins fourth,. 
Mr. G. Akhurst was fifth. 
Class C, twelve dishes of Potatoes, distinct varieties, nine tubers of 
each (open). First prize, £5 5s.; second, £4 4s.; third, £3 3s.; fourth, £2 2s. - 
fifth, £1 Is. The first prize was given by Mr. Alderman Cotton, M.P.; the 
second by Messrs. Daniels Brothers, The Royal Norfolk Establishment,. 
Norwich ; the third by Vice-President George Ure, Esq.. Wheatland?,. 
Bonnybridge, N.B. ; the fourth by Vice-President J. T. Thomas, Esq.,. 
138, Queen Victoria Street, London ; and the fifth by Thomas Price, Esq, 
Lymore, Beckenham. Nineteen collections, containing 228 dishes, were 
entered in this class, and were throughout of great merit, though perhaps 
there were more weak and irregular samples in this than in the preceding. 
The premier awards were secured by Mr. J. Miller, The Gardens, Hamstead 
Park, Newbury, Berks, for fine examples of Magnum Bonum. Radstock 
Beauty, Woodstock Kidney, Superior, Pride of America, Vicar of Laleham,. 
Reading Hero, Red Fluke, Myatt’s Prolific, Triumph, Porter’s Excelsior, and 
Reading Russet. Mr. J. Hughes was placed second, his best dishes being 
Queen of the Valley, International, Adirondack, Mr. Bresee, and Reading 
Russet. Mr. T. Pickworth was third, Mr. W. Ellington fourth, and Mr. 
W. Kerr fifth. 
Class D, nine dishes of Potatoes, distinct varieties, nine tubers of each 
(oDen). All the prizes in this class were given by Mr. C. Fidler, Potato- 
grower and merchant, Reading. Of the twenty-five competitors Mr. T. 
Tooley, Banbury, was placed first with a beautiful collection, comprising 
dishes of Prizetaker, Woodstock Kidney, Reading Russet, American Purple, 
International, Queen of the Valley, Schoolmaster, Mr. Bresee, and Radstock 
Beauty, all very even and clean. Mr. R. Dean was a good second—Inter¬ 
national, Mr. Bresee, Reading Russet, and Schoolmaster being very fine. 
Mr. W. Kerr was third with smaller tubers ; Mr. L. Stanton, Maidford, 
Towcester, fourth ; and Mr. T. Pickworth fifth. 
Class E, six dishes of Potatoes, distinct varieties, nine tubers of each 
(open). The first prize was given by Messrs. Webb & Sons, Wordsley, Stour¬ 
bridge ; the second by Messrs. Barr ifc Son, seedsmen. King Street, Covent 
Garden ; the third by T. J. Burrell, Esq., Knightrider Street, London ; and 
the fourth by Mr. William Earley, Ilford. Thirty collections were staged, 
and in this keen competition Mr. T. Tooley again secured the first position 
with tubers of moderate size, very even, clean, and good, the varieties being 
Porter’s Excelsior, Reading Russet, Radstock Beauty, Schoolmaster, Wood- 
stock Kidney, and Mr. Bresee. Mr. W. Kerr, Dargavel, was a close second. 
