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tiling that could be desired, and the quantity exhibited very large. 
Cox’s Orange Pippin maintaining its ground as the best dessert 
varfety, by taking all the prizes in its class. 
Plums were not altogether so fine or so largely shown as on 
previous occasions. The Reine Claude de Bavay looked promising, 
but the judges preferred the Imperatrice. 
Decidedly the finest dish of autumn Strawberries we ever saw 
were the Sir Harry’s, exhibited by Mr. Widdowson—they would 
have been creditable at a May show. 
Mr. Dwerrihouse’s Melon—Heckford Hybrid—was extra fine 
for flavour, and we should like to know how Mr. Dwerrihouse 
manages this so late in the season. 
In the class for Pears Stewed simply, it was the condition that 
the stewed pears in glass jars for which prizes were to be given 
should be prepared without any other admixture than their own 
juice, as the only way in which their respective merits could be 
ascertained correctly. On this occasion the highest flavoured and 
richest jar was composed of the Swan’s Egg pear, and prepared by 
Miss Ingram; a second jar of the Vicar of Winkfield was also 
nearly equal to the above, by the same lady; the second prize 
was awarded to the Chaumoutel, prepared by Mrs. Powell, of Old 
Windsor. 
In the Miscellaneous Class was a very interesting collection of 
thirteen varieties of G-rapes, exhibited by Mr. Hill, which obtained 
the first prize. There was also a fine dish of the Salway Peach, 
sent by Mr. Ingram, and some Chinese yams by Mr. Ivery; and, 
in conclusion, let us ask. What real merit belongs to the Eugenia 
Ugni, which we saw in several instances exhibited? vSurely this 
is not worth house room. 
TREES APPARENTLY KILLED BY FROST 
RECOVERING. 
Be cautious in cutting down trees which were apparently killed 
by last winter’s frost. Rather late in the day to talk about this, 
seeing that hundreds of trees and shrubs have long ago been con¬ 
signed to the fire ; nevertheless some may yet be standing, and if 
not, the caution is worth naming, if only to afford a hint to be 
treasured up till the next visitation. I am old enough to remember 
the frost of 1838, and the havoc it made with evergreens ; at that 
time many of my Cypresses, Junipers, and Arborvitajs, suffered 
greatly, as well as Bays and other things. At that time I did not 
cut them down, but allowed them to stand, brown and scorched 
as they were, most of the summer. By and bye many of them 
indicated a move in the sap, which first showed itself by the bark 
becoming greener, from the lov/er part of the trees upwards, 
and after a time, in the case of the Thujas and Cypresses, the 
central or mid-rib of the leaf became green ; and this vitality 
grjidually spread, following the large channels for the ascent of 
the sap which accompany the venation of the leaves, and ultimately 
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