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nd which have a huge oe above the 
badded, 8 ven on pyramids e the main 
SOCIETIES. 
1 HORTICULTURAL. 
Marca 12 — meeting on Tuesday last in the 
Drill Hall, 42555 "trest, Westminster. 
inthe present year he ld in anything like favourable 
ather. re was & good and interesting exhibit 
of e and spring flowers of various escrip- 
tions were exhibited for the first time, but in 
arch meeting. 
Fruit was only represented by two exhibits, one of 
these consisting of a few plants Of an excellent new 
Strawberry. 
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Present: N Marshall, Eeq., in the chair; and 
essrs. S. A. d $ Grant (intr, J. reer, J. Laing, 
C. T. Druery, H. B t, R. 5 n, Geo. 
Stevens, R. Owen, ne J H. F 5 J. 
Salter, W. C. Leach, J. Jennin Ba in, 
Jefferies, Geo. Gordon, H. Briscoe- Ironside, C. E 
Shea, J. D. Pawle, C. E. Pearson . mbrain, 
ne : Engleheart, J. 
r and Geo. Paul. 
ts of 1 Gloire de 
toh in a pan (Silver Bankaian Meda 
named a R Bea- 
Beale ` group of Eac aris 
. This is a variety with more 
funnel-shaped flowers than the ype, ard rather 
smaller, but very pretty (Award of Merit). 
me varieties o polyantha in pots were 
exhibited from the nurseries p Messrs, Paul & Son, 
Ch Carmine Pillar is a large single flower, 
of 3 bright colour, with sive centre ; 
aad grardiflora is a showy white annas 
Mrs, Tasker, 1 Miduha de Giu Comte 845 Bouchard, 
and Dr. — 8 were 1 ee The latter 
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— fs wae recom- 
Th e flowers are ver 
the upper centre 
ith a line of pink 
ited b 
— — Horsfieldii, Emperor, Mansy ee 
5 a 
one fulgens completed the exhibit 
(Silver Sitkilan Me sdal z g 
hese wer 
fi „ & Ver E Open 
Ae slightly with red; and Prince E 
eiteh (Silver Banksian Medal). 
in 1 F. dan er & Co, again staged — balbs 
Sower of the bright 1 Kalbreyerii. 
leans B. S. Williams oper e 
on, N. » had some e plants of Boronia 
ae Wo. Paul & Son, Waltham Cross Nur- 
55 Herts, staged a comprehensive collection of 
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Camellia flowers, and some young well-grown 
Camellia in flower. But for the annual 
exhibits sa! Messrs. W. Paul & Sons, the Camellia 
dly be seen at all at these meetings. The 
useful 3 Rose (Silver- gilt Flora Medal). 
al Commendation = e pe to prime 
P aaen 3 nds (gr., Mr. sh), fi 
exceptionally well - grown mers af —.— 3 
A few seedlings of a Primula resembling P. Alice 
Wilson i in colour of the flowers were also shown from 
arden. 
Mr. Geo. Bolas, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, showed 
some cut Daffodil blooms, mounted on a board, in- 
terspersed with sprays of Ivy. A plant of Chrysan- 
themum emi bearing a good flower A 2 was 
sent by Mr. H. Briscoe- Ironside, Susse 
3 Committee. 
H. 
Ci Pilcher. 3 Gabrie 
E. Hill, and W. Cobb. 
„ T. W. Bo nd, W. H. White 
fine show of Orchids, and the 
grandifloram (nobile pulcherrimum ?, splendidissi- 
mum grandiflorum G). it, judges i 
improvement — in the size or 
( Cypher * sie showed 
plants of D. insworthii, Cypher 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking 
(grower, Mr. W. i 
te), secured a 
hronitis ried (that 
„with 
Sir Trevor Lawr rrhopetalum 
picturatum, Dendrobium nobile e Epi- 
phronitis X Veitchii, in fine flower; Masdevallia 
co ee (ignea x coccinea) (Award of Merit); 
Bnlophielle Klisaboth æ Masdevallia melanoxantha, 
M. Shuttrayava, M. Schroderæ, igts rothallis 
Roell, ora four eee a da vulcanica 
3 dee, seg x Endresio- Wallisii, and 
oup of the Barford “hybrid Calanthes 
(Silver halten Medal 
der & Oo., 8 t. Albans, staged a 
Merit 
There were 3 in Messrs. Sander’s s group fine 
plants of notte Trianæi delicata, C. Schilleriana, 
Lelio-Cattleya x albanensis superba, the pretty 
Maxillaria sanguinea, i i 
e an nobile, from their 
importation from the Lang — Hille, India (Silver 
Fiora = 
me 25 Veitch & Son, were Exotic Nursery, 
w or 
nate petals of L. flava. creamy-white, 
d the @ flower has on the lip a ee ge. dise ; 
a very pretty an pleasing flower (Awar erit). 
Dendro eee ee cee eae aaia 
a 
D. x greg ey ar Leeanu um, 
form in the best condition in which it has 
showed that distinct 
— yet 
F. Har ardy, Ei., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey 
(gr., Mr. T. Stafford), showed Odontoglossum Hardy- 
a owers as large 
as those of O. crispum, but with dense brown 
ting, which resembles the markings on O. Ander- 
sonianum, but they are larger, the lip is long, narrow, 
and pointed, and in some of the features the flower 
resembles O. Wi'ck 
tog agree mulus var. and 
several varieties of Dendrobiu 
William — = Victoria and Para- 
dise Nurseries, Upper 
group of Orchids, i ne specimens of 
ce a formed a striking feature, 
bigiam Devonianum, Odonto- 
um Wardianum, Lycaste 
fulvescens, Angræcum citratam, Cypripedium Cham- 
berlainianum, C, Measures- 
* Phoebe (levigatum X bellatulum 
tinted flower, which will doubtless i 
and Dendrobium 
a noble example of Platyelinis * 
(gr., Mr. 
Dendrobium 
owers, and ps 
aptor, ‘had a very 
autiful Cypripedium x William 
meg (illustrated i in the Gardeners "Chronicle, p. 77, 
vol. xvi, 1894 i ow's group 
were fine examples of M 
dium Chamberlainianum, 
Saccolabium. bellinum, Dendrobium 
Pebrode te anum, D. Brymerianum, and a large plant 
of a aci diese: ee to O. TRE 
Silver Banksian 30 
i ri 3 th I 5 „ 
reir. np) -s 502 pe e 1 
x s : 
r Lae oy R Court, Horsham (gr., 
Mr. Duncan), sho a pretty Inleanien 
andiflora, cut spikes of Dendrobium * DiN ane 
Ceelogyne s rote of Thanks), 
tuberculosus, and Cattleya Trianæi (Vote of? ve. 
j hur, the ange sor — 
a small group 0 : 
Cypripedium x Figaro, a pretty hybrid ; Cattleya 
“The erari paii 
petal; Oà Dendrobium Wardianum, Cœlogyne eris- 
