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consisted of pure white, crimson, and red-throated varieties intermixed. The 

 other part of the group was composed of about 120 plants of a pure white variety, 

 all the plants being as dwarf and even as if they had been cast in one mould. 

 They were admirably grown and compact, with good foliage and splendid flowers. 

 Such a collection is rarely seen. It was greatly admired, and a large gold Bank- 

 sian medal was deservedly awarded to the exhibitor. First-class certificates were 

 awarded to Mr Smith for Cyclamen Ficturata, a splendid variety, having petals 

 24 inches in length and nearly an inch in diameter. The colour is satiny white 

 su ffused with rose, the base of the petals and throat purplish crimson ; leaves 

 small, marbled, and serrated ; flower stems stout, and a foot in height ; plant 

 floriferous and very attractive. Also for Crimson King : flowers medium-sized, 

 colour glowing magenta crimson ; flower stems mottled, and a foot high ; foliage 

 large, round, and smooth ; a variety of great promise. 



Messrs Edmonds & Son, Hayes Nursery, Hayes, Middlesex, also staged a very 

 pleasing group of Cyclamens ; some of them were very large plants, on one of 

 which were 220 fully expanded flowers, the corm being fully 7 inches in diam- 

 eter ; the whole of the plants were well flowered, and some of the colours were 

 very rich. A silver-gilt Banksian medal was awarded. Mr R. Clarke, Twick- 

 enham, also exhibited 100 plants of a very highly coloured crimson variety, 

 and about the same number of mixed varieties. The plants were somewhat 

 smaller than those in the preceding collections, but the colours were very bright 

 and striking. A silver Banksian medal was awarded. 



"We now notice a group of Orchids of extraordinary merit contributed by Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., Burford Lodge, Dorking (grower Mr Spyers). 

 About thirty-six plants were staged. It were impossible to speak too highly of 

 the splendidly cultivated and densely bloomed plants ; the richness of colouring 

 of some, and the chaste purity of others, were most striking. Three large 

 plants of Dendrobium Wardianum, the centre plant in a pot, the other two 

 growing on blocks, were all alike healthy and grandly flowered. Each plant 

 had about ten vigorous growths, many of them having eight tiers of blooms, or 

 more than 100 large and fresh flowers on each plant. A large plant of Den- 

 drobium nobile ccerulescens was profusely bloomed and very beautiful ; Cypri- 

 pediums Boxalli and villosum were large and grand. A magniiicent plant of 

 Ccelogyne Lemoineana, pure white and lemon throat, was very chaste ; Odon- 

 toglossums crispum and crispum roseum were very beautiful, as was also a well- 

 coloured plant of Phalsenopsis Schilleriana. Dendrobiums crassinode Barberi- 

 ana, D. crassinode grandiflorum, and D. luteolum, the latter with several pale 

 lemon flowers, were all of them very attractive. Odontoglossums Rossii, Lind- 

 leyanum, speciosum, Cervantesii roseum, triumphans, &c, various Coelogynes, 

 Lycaste Skinneri, the very curious Spathoglottis Lobbii, and Masdevallia poly- 

 sticta, were all well represented ; and; exceedingly striking was a fine plant of 

 Cymbidium eburneum with eight grand wax-like flowers; also Lselia anceps 

 alba with two flowers, and the brilliant Laslia harpophylla, the finest plant we 

 have ever seen, and perhaps the brightest Orchid in cultivation. The flowers — 

 there were twenty-one of them — are in form not unlike those of Tritonia aurea, 

 but larger, and are of the most intense orange scarlet imaginable. A large 

 gold Banksian medal was awarded for this fine collection. 



A silver Flora medal was awarded to Mr H. Benham, gardener to the Earl of 

 Stradbroke, Henham Hall, Wangford, Suffolk, for four profusely bloomed plants 

 of Phalsenopsis Schilleriana with magnificent foliage ; and a first-class certificate 

 was awarded to Messrs Hugh Low & Son, Clapton, for a remarkable Orchid 

 Cymbidium Lowianum. In growth the plant resembles C. Hookerii. The spike, 



