108 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
than cruelty so to expose them. But as ay Eoi 
Peers seem to cet at his view 
mployment in the leaked pA of 
any, ope Sema through the glass sides of the hive, 
may fairly conclude that the bees know their 
ovt business and pleasure petter Ss an even bee 
masters can describe them. tudy 
- bees, Ligurian and British, at the ежа 
Gardens at our ‘leis re; and if it be "onsec Y 
dismiss the prejudice too often ае bo m boo: 
we cannot fail to derive iubtrdetion and um 
this living picture of nature's self. 
тосце of the Society, 
SPECIAL ORCHID SHOW, MAY 13, 1865, 
Although the number of plants exhibited on this 
occasion was much smaller than had been hoped, 
Бе exhibition ose pe est peu M very great 
bem 
terest, on 
pra coccinea, the алой алии 
Сы u 
8 
now; and it is P алан that it has 
= йы. exhibit ed. Мг. Rucker's Trichopilia 
e 
erispa was magnificent Ете but labelled, 
* Not for ей. o " The pot in which it was 
shown might have been of a colour more suitable 
to the Ж: ium eaudat d C. 
super entworth Buller e very 
fine, and ill бид vare the shed of 
he cool treatment they had received. These were 
also much noticed: the Cyjeipedisi 
Messrs ; 
г е pandurata, Ме its four 
spikes of strange green "abe black flow 
за жы ру of neve: p gree 
Mes consisting “ 
‚ Tree Fern 
ere wi 
house pleno ee, 
esae variegated Toei, , Alocasias 
and i ixed with these 
Chorozemas, es arranged with taste and effect 
ent а vs ин collection of 
plants, including. Аз = m h Glei- 
chenia rye Cibot Nida E M 
dodendro: Anthu rum cordifolium, his fine 
Specimen f Bert olonia margaritacea, and 
other beautiful ot. The Pelargoniums sent и 
. Wm. received beet, ttention, and 
al 
included | scab interesting vari 
The dere 1 the List je Awards, 
Class 1 Aerides, Moose and Saccolabium, 3 
distinct kinds (О: a st prize, 4L, Messrs 
Maule & Son, The tol. 
apos 
"p Cattleya a че Таба 3 distinet kinds. 
Class 3.—4 —4 Oncidium, Milt d Odonto- 
glossum, 3 distinct kinds. wer am re 
Class 4.—3 Cypripediums ( Open -pn e, 
4 
George 
Buller, Strete Raleig 
YS A (Open). 
ii, eon pere bloomed ; p P b 
ass 6. — Miscellaneous, 12 са tinet kinds. 
(Nurserymen.) 1st prize, 9l., € rs. W. Maule & 
So n The Nu es, Bristol: 2nd, 7l., Messrs. J. 
& С, Lee, Vineyard Nursery, Нано 3rd, 
56., Mr. Robert Ра rker, Exotic ursery, Tootin ing. 
ass 7. — Miscellaneous, 9 distinct kinds, 
“ү 
Miscellaneous, 6 distinct E 
(Amateur р prize, 6/., Мг. J. Robson, gar- 
т to G. Cooper, Esq. > Alpha House, Colgate 
Read Nr Kent Roa d, S.E. 
9.. "Miscellaneous, 3 E ( Open.) 
lk 3l., Messrs. ҮҮ, Maule & Son, The Nur- 
series, A tol. 
pa ч plant. (Open: ) 1st prize, 
20; Mr. 2 Hi gardener to В.Н anbury, Esq., 
var.); 2nd, 14, Mr. J. Smith, gardenet H 
о ini , Altrincham, near еса € 
occinea; e 2L; 
Renanthera É 
Charlón, gardener to R: Bar nett, Esq., Blackheath 
e for салаа Lüddemanniana; extra, il., 
R gardener to G, Cooper, Esq., Old 
Kent Road, SE for оен Lüddemanniana. 
MiscELLANEOUS. 
Extra, 5/., Messrs. J. & C. Lee, Vineyard N 
sery, Hamm eremith, for а Collection of Stove asl 
Greenhouse Pis 
Extra, 11.1 "o William Paul, NAME Cross, 
N., fora Collestion of Beaton's Pelargoni 
Extra, 1., Mess rs. H. Low & Co., Nurs spud 
е. - E., for 2 ‘Orchids, Phalenopsis Lüdde- 
Ex. ik Mr. 9. Wilson, gardener to J. Wilson, 
wich, = e ж Catil Eg superba. 
Mr 
Mr. dle to Mr, T Hill, gardener to В, Han- 
bury, Esq., Poles, Ware, Herts, for Vanda suavis 
(Veiteh's var.). 
The following —— with reference t0 
this Mis. from the pen very old Fellow of 
the Society, and an т бањ ‘plant grower, 
of inter 
The xd of Orchids is steadily on the m * 
well it may be, "m RN consider the diversity de 
peculiarity both of form and calou: Шин this tribe 
Basse банд п cultivation not а f 
of th good thing | that are know n, and eid геј 
there may be, that to the к have neve 
seen + ез к ni nie о 
Again, h of those that we have known 
w 
ture. Formerly, all were placed in the s# i 
operand » their istiyo habits be what per foe 
In this any gloriou s things that or 
risked their lives = - their patrons ed, and 
sums tai re soon extin ›есїтей, 
nothing remaine ii of beds but the dried lished 
oo | seat their botanical аара that 
me ken eign or English wo: 
the publie had аздт the opportunity to coer 
now many еше seve № the LoS, 
have 
men in England, such ~ d 57 edge É 
&c., who are y in 
