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fund give in the name of a gentleman to also act as censor ; the 

 majority of votes to decide the election of sucli censors, and that tlie 

 two so chosen censors iiave the power to call in a third censor, or 

 referee, if they so desire. 



10th. That there be no appeal from the censors' award ; and. 



Lastly, Tiiat snch other regulations as may be considered necessary 

 (not being contrary to the spirit of the foregoing) be added to these 

 rules. 



And now, gentlemen, Carnation-growers of l']ngland, let me here 

 state that I desire to assume little, and dictate less, nor have I know- 

 ingly made any arbitrary suggestions ; it is for you to decide, yes or 

 no, in tliis great cause. 



There can be little doubt about readily obtaining an amount suf- 

 ficient to carry out the schedules after tlie above form. A sum of 50/, 

 pays the prizes, and I know little else except the censors' travelling 

 expenses tiiat could form any item of expenditure, for I take it that in 

 a truly national affair, as I wish tiiis to assume, all growers and exlii- 

 bitors will readily offer their gratuitous services (and contributions) in 

 each and e\ery floral district. 



I am, growers of England, 



Wace Cottage, Your brother in arms, 



Holloivay, Middlesex. John Edwards. 



FLORAL EXHIBITIONS. 

 Horticultural Society. 



March 19. — Mrs. Lawrence exhibited a specimen of the long-tailed 

 Ladies' Slipper (Cypripedium caudatum), an extraordinary looking 

 species, wliicli has just flowered at Ealing-park for the first time in 

 England. As far as colour is concerned, the flowers have little to 

 recommend them, being, as near as possible, greenish yellow; tiieir 

 peculiarity consists in the petals being extended into two long brown 

 narrow tails, wliich hang down from either side of each blossom, and 

 keep on growing and growing as the flower gets older, till it is difficult 

 at present to say what length they may eventually reacii. Those in 

 the specimen exhibited were nearly eighteen inciies long, and when 

 the flowers are elevated, as they should be, some two or three feet 

 above the foliage, these tails must give them a most remarkable appear- 

 ance. Dr. Lindley stated that the existence of tails was not uncommon 

 among Orchids, and tliat an unimportant species of Uropedium, named 

 Lindenii, inhabiting tiie Cordilleras, near the lake of Maracaybo, pos- 

 sessed tliese appendages even in a more remarkable degree than this 

 Cypripedium caudatum. The latter comes from Peru, ami may now 

 be met with in one or two collections in tiiis countrJ^ A large silver 

 medal was awarded it. 



The l)alberd-lipped Odontoglossum (0. hastilabium), another new 

 Orchid, or at least comparatively new, was exliibited by Mr. Ivison, 

 gardener to tiie Duchess Uowager of Northumberland, at Syon. Like 

 the Ladies' Slipper just mentioned, tiiis is not distinguished by bril- 



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