XI. 
(APPENDIX TO THE INTRODUCTION.) 
Report of the Committee appointed to attend the Congress of the Pomological 
Societies of France, on behalf of the Woolhope Club, held at 
Rouen, from October 2nd to the 12th, 1884. 
Your Committee, having obtained the Schedules of the Exhibition to be held at Rouen, 
thought it best to compete in the classes open to strangers. A collection of Table Fruit was therefore 
obtained from the gardens of Stoke Edith, Holme Lacy, Thing-hill, and other places. It consisted 
of fifty-seven varieties of Dessert Apples, fifty-seven varieties of Culinary Apples, and thirty-six 
varieties of Pears. This collection was very fine. It formed the leading attraction at the 
Exhibition in the Hall of the Hotel de Societes Savantes, and a Gold Medal was awarded to it by 
the Societe Centrale d’Horticulture de la Seine Inferieure. 
A fine bunch of Black Alicante Grapes from the garden at Eastnor Castle was also taken, 
and received from the same Society a large Silver Medal. 
The collection of Orchard Fruits exhibited by the Woolhope Club consisted of fifty-six 
varieties of Cider Apples, and forty-two varieties of Perry Pears. To this collection the 
Association Pomologique de l’Ouest awarded a Bronze Medal. 
Two varieties of Cider made from mixed fruits, and four varieties of Cider made from a 
single variety of fruit; with two varieties of Perry, were also exhibited. To the Cider from mixed 
fruits a Silver Gilt Medal was given, and to that from a single fruit, a Silver Medal. Prizes were 
not offered for Perry, of which very little is made in Normandy. 
The first six Parts of the present Work, The Herefordshire Pomona, were also 
exhibited, and a “ Diplome d’Honneur” was awarded to the Woolhope Club, from the 
Societe Centrale d’Horticulture de la Seine Inferieure, for the Table Fruits represented in 
the Work ; and a second was also given by the Association Pomologique de l Ouest 
for the Vintage Fruits. 
A Gold Medal was also specially awarded to Dr. Hogg, for his life-long work in Pomology. 
The receipt of these high honours did not cause your Committee to forget that the 
chief objects of their visit to Rouen were, first, to ascertain whether the Apples called “ Norman ” 
in Herefordshire were really Norman varieties ; and secondly, if they were not so, to select 
a few of the most valuable varieties from the Norman orchards to introduce into Herefordshire. 
