December 17, 1904. 
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Views and Reviews. 
Colonial Grown Fruits. 
The first Colonial Exhibition inaugurated 
by the Royal Horticultural Society was held 
in the New Hall at Vincent Square on the 
13th and 14th inst. There was, however, a 
private view on Monday, when the President 
held a reception and practically opened the 
exhibition by the delivery of a short speech. 
He thought that as time went on and the 
idea had time to develop they would have 
much larger shows of colonial fruits and pro¬ 
ducts in the New Hall. He was fully per¬ 
suaded also that agents-general for the dif¬ 
ferent colonies would give every assistance 
in their power. 
In the old Kensington days a proposal was 
made to hold a show of the kind, but for 
several reasons it did not then succeed. 
Nevertheless, for a considerable number of 
years there was a strong idea of a trend in 
this direction. He recalled the case of the 
Tomato when first brought to market in some 
quantity and it was prophesied that it would 
become much cheaper as a result of more 
extended cultivation. The same applied to 
colonial fruits, and he instanced the case of 
one who made a Banana plantation in the 
Canaries and took a quantity of the fruits 
to Liverpool, expecting 2d. or 3d. each for 
them. He got little encouragement for this, 
and it was suggested that at Id. each they 
would have a much larger market. Pro¬ 
ducts of this kind would get much more 
attention if people made a much larger diet 
of vegetable products. He himself was not 
a vegetarian in any sense of the term, 
though lie believed that a fruit diet was 
highly advantageous. Oranges were not ex¬ 
tensively grown in our colonies, but several 
other exotic fruits requiring a high tempera¬ 
ture could be brought to great perfection. 
In looking round the exhibition he thought 
they would see many things that were prac¬ 
tically new. In speaking of bottled fruits 
and bottled vegetables, he thought they lost 
a good deal of their original flavour and 
quality by comparison with fresh products. 
Jams and marmalades were quite a different 
thing. Someone had made the remark that 
marmalade was better than butter, but he 
thought it would not in all cases answer, as 
in a certain case when a lady proposed to use 
marmalade to fry her husband’s dinner. He 
thanked the exhibitors and thought much 
would depend upon the maimer of putting up 
the fruits with taste aud in dainty packages 
as to the amount of business they would be 
likely to do with the mother country. Nova 
Scotia could not be beaten for the colour of 
its Apples, which, for the climate, were cer¬ 
tainly wonderful. The splendid colour was 
due to the sunshine and the warm season 
while it lasted. The next exhibition of 
colonial fruit by the society would be held 
in March, when he expected the display of 
products would be much larger. 
Although not exactly new to visitors at 
the meetings and exhibitions of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, the Apples from the 
various parts of the Dominion of Canada 
were of considerable interest on account of 
their attractive appearance. At the Anti¬ 
podes the hardy fruits are practically out of 
season, and in place of the fruits themselves 
a large collection of models of various hardy 
fruits were sent from the Imperial Institute, 
so as to represent those distant lands of the 
King’s dominions. Amongst the models re¬ 
presenting Victoria Apples were examples of 
Royal Russet, Ilollandbury, Peasgood’s Non¬ 
such, London Pippin, and Hubbard Pear- 
main. Even the black spots on the latter 
were represented in the model, showing that 
the Apple carries its own ailments with it to 
new countries. The interesting fact about 
this exhibit is that so many of the varieties 
represented were identical with those grown 
in this country. 
The same mi'glit be said with regard to 
Tasmanian models of hardy fruits. The 
varieties were somewhat different from the 
above, including Alfriston, French Crab, 
Blenheim Orange, Wellington and Stunner 
Pippin. Less-known fruits were Mobs Codlin 
and Prihce Albert, representing Apples about 
4 in. in diameter. This was even exceeded 
by the model of Uvedale’s St. Germain Pear, 
representing a fruit 9 in. long and 5 in. in 
diameter at the upper end. We fancy it 
would take all the skill of cultivators in the 
Channel Islands to produce larger samples of 
this well-known stewing Pear. Very good 
samples of it were represented in the Vic¬ 
toria collection, but considerably smaller 
than the Tasmanian representative. 
Queensland lias a much warmer climate, 
and as a result of this its products were re¬ 
presented by models of a greater variety of 
fruits, but chiefly of those that can only be 
grown in tropical or sub-tropical countries. 
Judging from the models, the fruits of 
Peaches, Nectarines and Pears only grow to 
relatively small size, the heat no doubt being 
