1872 : Mr Pluck of Jersey Exhibits his Fruit Again

 

Title:  The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman. A Chronicle of the Homestead, Poultry-Yard, Apiary, & Dovecote, xlviii, n.s. xxiii, 363-364
Date: 7 November 1872
Place: London

 

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY - NOV. 6TH

THE Exhibition on this occasion took everyone by surprise. The floral department was well represented for the season, and despite all that has been said of the scarcity of fruit, and great and grievous we know it is, there was such a show both in the Society’s classes and more particularly in the associated International competition, as, taking the two together, has been rarely equalled. The quality for a season in which the out-door fruit crop has been almost a failure throughout the length and breadth of the land was something marvellous, and no marvel, then, that the Show, held in the conservatory, was crowded to excess, and had it but lasted another day it would, doubtless, have been visited by thousands more.

THE Exhibition on this occasion took everyone by surprise. The floral department was well represented for the season, and despite all that has been said of the scarcity of fruit, and great and grievous we know it is, there was such a show both in the Society’s classes and more particularly in the associated International competition, as, taking the two together, has been rarely equalled. The quality for a season in which the out-door fruit crop has been almost a failure throughout the length and breadth of the land was something marvellous, and no marvel, then, that the Show, held in the conservatory, was crowded to excess, and had it but lasted another day it would, doubtless, have been visited by thousands more.

INTERNATIONAL FRUIT SHOW.

Alfriston was generally very fine; the first prize went to a dish weighing 5 lbs. 15 ozs. from Mr. Pluck, Jersey; the second to Mr. C. J. Perry, and the third to Mr. Drieu. Mr. Gardiner, Mr. Rowe, and Mr. Craddock also sent large fruits.

The heaviest six fruit of any variety were Alfriston, 6 lbs. 8 ozs., from Mr. Pluck; second came Mr. Gardiner with Warner’s King, very fine. Mr. Dancer showed Dumelow’s Seedling, weighing 3 lbs. 10 ozs.

The best dish of Doyenné du Comice came from Mr. F. Drieu, Belvedere, Jersey. These were very large and fine, and closely pressing on them were the fruit from Mr. C. J. Perry, Castle Bromwich, who was second; Mr. J. Pluck, Jersey, being third.

Duchesse d’Angoulême was shown in splendid condition, especially by the Jerseymen, who carried all before them. Mr. Le Sueur, Grand Vale Nurseries, Jersey, was first with large beautifully-ripened specimens; Mr. G. Thomas, second, with fruit closely approaching in size; and Mr. Pluck, third. Mr. Drieu; Mr. Carmichael, gardener to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Sandringham; Mr. Deuxberry, Cobham Hall, Gravesend, and others, exhibited excellent fruit.

Of Catillac immense specimens were shown. The first prize was taken by Mr. C. Tivey, gardener to P. Gassett, Esq., St. Saviour’s, Jersey. Mr. Pluck, Jersey, was second, the dish weighing 8 lbs. 1 oz.; third came Mr. Drieu.

The best dish of Uvedale’s St. Germain came from Mr. Le Sueur, Jersey; the second from Mr. Pluck - these weighed 9 lbs. 9 ozs.; the third from Mr. J. J. Jacobs, Belgium. Mr. Hankins, Mr. Drieu, Mr. Thomas, and Mr. Lumsden, Bloxholm Hall, also sent large specimens.

In the class for the heaviest six fruit of any variety, Uvedale’s St. Germain weighing 13 lbs. 1 oz. from Mr. Thomas, Jersey, was first; the same kind very finely coloured from Mr. J. Scott, Merriott, second; and from Mr. Drieu third. Catillac, weighing 7 lbs., was shown by Mr. Pluck; Grosse Calebasse, weighing 6½ lbs., came from Mr. Harvey, gardener to P. Wroughton, Esq., Woolley Park, Wantage - these were very fine - and beautiful specimens of Beurré Clairgeau from Mr. O. Goldsmith, gardener to Sir W. Farquhar, Polesden, Dorking.

Mr Pluck is James Pluck [PL1430] who can be found in Tree 1005

 

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