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The exhibition of Orchids was the best ever made, comprising 

 over oue hundred plants, many of them unique specimens. 

 F. L. Ames exhibited 



Gattleya amethystoglossa. 



Dendrobmm Ainsivorthii, with over 150 flowers. 

 ' ' Brymerianum . 



" WarcUanum; several large plants. 



" " album. 



Oclontoglossum Alexandrce^ and 



" Pescatorei; several magnificent plants, one of 



the latter bearing sixty flowers on one spike. 



Odontoglossum triumplians, with an unequalled spike of bloom. 



PhalcBnopsis Brymerianum . 

 " Stuartiana. 



And many others of large size and rare quality. 



H. H. Huunewell exhibited 



CalantJie Turneri. 



Coelogyne cristata, the Chatsworth variety ; a plant three feet 

 across, and a sheet of flowers. 



Cymbidinm Lowi. 



Dendrobmm Wcu-dianum,, a fine plant. 



Odontoglossum Insleayi. 



Plmla^nopsis Schilleriana. Several extra good varieties were 

 shown, one plant having about seventy-five flowers open. 



Sojihronites grandijlora. 

 Besides numbers of others. 



David Allan (gardener to Robert M. Pratt) exhibited 



Cypripedium inskpie, one of the finest plants of this species 

 ever put ou exhibition. It was about four feet across. 



Dendrobium Ainsworthii, a well-bloomed plant. 



" Wardianum, about a dozen grand plants, most of 



them bearing from forty to sixty flowers. 



All of the Orchids were interspersed with ferns and brilliant 

 Anthuriums, constituting such a display as is rarely witnessed. A 

 gratifying feature of the exhibition was the award of the Society's 

 Silver Medal to F. L. Harris (gardener to H. H. Huunewell), 

 David Allan (gardener to Robert M. Pratt), and AV. Robiusou 



