JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
October 12, 1882. ] 
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than simply the best varieties ripe and fit for table “ early in 
September.” 
Your correspondent seems to have made a great hit when he 
discovered in the class for twelve dishes of fruits that the third- 
prize collection ought to have been first, also that Charlotte 
Kothschild Pine Apple in the first-prize lot had a few green 
streaks round some of the pips, Well, it did have the blemish 
of wanting another day or two to finish it perfectly ; however, 
the fruit being in every way symmetrical, and weighing 8 lbs. 
9 ozs.. no other fault could be urged against it. I wonder “H.B.” 
did not see the Queen Pine at the other end of the collection ; 
this was as perfectly finished as any Pine in the Show, and 
weighed 5 lbs. 6 ozs., or about the weight of the two Pines in 
the third-prize put together. 
Again, “ H. B.” says every dish in the third-prize was fit to put 
on the table of a prince. On the exhibition table there were 
staged seventeen collections of twelve dishes each, and in my 
opinion any or all of the 204 dishes might he fit to put on the 
table of a prince. It was a matter of common comment on the 
spot [that perhaps the poorest dish of fruit on the whole table 
Fig. 56.—JESCHYNANTHUS SPECIOSUS. 
was the dish of Nectarines in the said third-prize collection. The 
Muscat of Alexandria Grapes in this lot were indeed far from 
first-class. “ H. B.,” I think, ought in fairness to have mentioned 
the fact that it took three bunches to cover a very moderate¬ 
sized stand, and these had their shoulders padded with wool in 
order that they might appear presentable. The colour, too, was 
somewhat different from those that won the Veitch Memorial 
medal. 
Apples in a class like this, be they ever so good, are somewhat 
common, and I think “ H. B.” in criticising the decisions of the 
Judges in some other cases would have done well to have noticed 
the Figs as well as the Peaches. Here in the small competition 
the large Figs were passed over, they being from the same source 
as came the Figs in “H, B.’s” fancied third-prize collection.— 
J. MacIndoe, Hutton Hall. 
[This is equally a reply to “A Scotchman,” on page 318, and 
shows that “H. B.’s ” letter is not “ unanswerable.”] 
iESCHYNANTHU SES. 
Gesneriaceotjs plants are some of the most brilliant orna¬ 
ments of our stoves, the majority of them producing very gaily 
coloured flowers in abundance, and these seem even more attrac¬ 
tive in comparison with the rich diversity of foliage which Palms, 
Crotons, Dracaenas, Alocasias, and innumerable others present. 
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