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The Warner's King Apple may be described 
as very large, broad or somewhat ovate in 
shape ; skin of a pretty uniform clear yellow, 
with patches and small specks of russet 
throughout; stalk slender, short, deeply in¬ 
serted in a regular cavity; eye small, closed, 
set in a deep, slightly angular basin ; flesh 
white, tender, juicy, with a briskly acid 
flavour. It is an excellent cooking variety. 
The tree is a free grower, and generally a sure 
cropper ; it is very much cultivated in the 
market gardens round London, and should he 
grown in every collection.—A. F. Barron. 
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL 
SHOW. 
HE great International Fruit and Flower 
Show of the Royal Caledonian Horti¬ 
cultural Society, held in the Waverley 
Market Buildings on September 14 
and 15, proved to be in every respect suc¬ 
cessful. A very liberal schedule of prizes, 
amounting to over £1,000, was offered, and 
the response was equally spirited, the num¬ 
ber of entries exceeding 2,200—thus forming 
by far the largest and best exhibition of flowers 
and fruits ever held in Scotland. 
The Market Buildings in which the show 
was held are specially well adapted for such 
a purpose, having a covered-in area of 1-J 
acres, exceedingly well lighted, so that the 
objects are shown off to good advantage. A 
series of low, flat stages were arranged in long 
lines on which the exhibits were staged. No 
particular order or system seemed to be fol¬ 
lowed ; thus, although the various exhibits 
were brought well under inspection, and the 
exhibition when examined in detail proved 
extremely satisfactory, the general effect was 
disappointing, the long straight tables pre¬ 
senting a very stiff and formal appearance. 
Had all the stages been swept away, excepting 
those for the Fruit and cut Flowers, and the 
plants been arranged in groups on the floor in 
a naturally artistic manner, after the example 
so well carried out in Belgium, the effect 
would have been far finer. With such a 
magnificent building, and the vast area at 
disposal, it is a pity that a little more attention 
was not directed to this end. 
Fruit proved—as is always the case at 
these northern autumnal meetings—the chief 
feature of attraction in the show, the exhibition 
of Grapes being very extensive, something 
like 1,500 bunches being staged, and these 
for the most part of fairly good average 
quality. There was an absence of coarseness, 
which we have noticed as being prevalent on 
former occasions, but at the same time there 
was not present anything equal in quality to 
what we have previously seen. The staging 
did not seem to have been attended to with 
that care which is usually exercised, many 
fine examples losing their chance of prizes 
by the presence of decayed and small berries 
in the bunches which might easily have been 
removed. 
The champion of the day was Mr. MTndoe, 
gardener to Sir J. W. Pease, Bart., Hutton 
Hall, Guisborough, Yorkshire, who in addition 
to the chief prizes for Collection of Fruit, 
Collection of Grapes, and several others, ob¬ 
tained two out of the three Yeitch Memorial 
Medals. Mr. MTndoe deserves to be sincerely 
congratulated on his well-deserved success. 
The finest examples of Grapes were no 
doubt the Barbarossa or Gros Guillaume 
of Mr. MTndoe, both large in berry and 
perfect in bunch. The third prize lot in 
the collection of Grapes, exhibited by Mr. 
Kirk, gardener to J. Thomson Paton, Esq., 
excited great admiration; the bunches were 
not large in size, but so very even and regular. 
Muscats were' specially well shown, the 
bunches large and of beautiful colour ; the 
1st prize was awarded to Mr. James Day, 
gardener to H. T. Broadhurst, Esq., Gar- 
lieston, to whom the third Yeitch Memorial 
Medal was allotted. Golden Queen appeared 
in many collections, and of wonderfully good 
quality, so superior in fact to what we have 
been accustomed to see it, that many doubts 
were expressed as to its genuineness. Gros 
Maroc we were pleased to note appeared in 
good form; and Alnwick Seedling was in 
every instance particularly fine in colour and 
handsome, the best, however, coming from its 
introducer, Mr. W. P. Bell, of Alnwick. The 
examples of Madresfield Court were throughout 
particularly fine, those from Mr. Goodacre, 
Elvaston, specially so. We are glad to note 
that this fine Grape is now finding that favour 
in the North which it deserved. A few fine 
