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THE GARDENERS’ 
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of oo rare umpi and formed a magnificent g toup, 
vi 
ha f 30 feet, the plants being taste 
a Arranged ong a sufficient raper ni Ann 
Pa d Maidenhair Ferns. 
t oe ae ntre 
ptak A and imm —— 1 hi 1 
m f C. Skinneri 3 with five spikes. 
el f 
ing some two d 
per blooms, and at t 
the up grand v arietion of 
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83 * 
91 
rsianum, w 
which a yellowish hue gave an additional charm to 
the pale red and greenish flowers, and showed the 
Vr ar * cet snd bea a: 
. (grower, Mr. W. H. White), 
bry ta piaraan pater at staging to an equal distance 
by Baron Schroder, and arranged one o of the best 
ections of Orchids, of the 
ib . The centre plant was a fine specimen of Cypri- 
ium Stonei platytenium, with eee sn flowers 
, and around which visitors, a ialis 
alike lingered. A k of its rarity — — e. 
a Silver Flora Medal w: warded, and also a Fi 
ificate (see fig. 91, p. 645). e bac d of the pe 
8 e up of the slender Epidendrums, such E 
1 , E. O' Brienianum, a © ing plant of the rose- 
purple E. Frederici Guilelmi, large yellow heads of 
diu Marshallianum, O. Lee mere 
rra 
popust: 
e e group — ared some — ndid v ties " 
u 
t Masde- 
ing the large scarlet M. H. luteo-oculata, M. H. 
miniata, an i anguinea. It is generall arked 
that from Burford old species which have never been general 
so good it difficult to but salient 
ures group were tbe white Cattleya Mossi 
Wagneri with si ers; Veitchii 
i wi n fio ; the pr ark 
Aërides lianum with four epikes; Cattleya Mo:siæ 
os wd a di um  Lowianum cos lor, the ivory-white 
Vanda Den t bl ; Miltonia 
childianum, re three bians aiii a many flowers; Cypri- 
pedium x Laurebel, C. x Con x robium taurinum, 
D. Jamesianum, olonteanum giganteum, 
Calanthe trifolia, &c. Among plants of neat growth and 
attractive flowers we illaria prestans, Masdev 
* Shuttrayana, M. x Gelengiana, M uldiana, 
Wendlandii, M. rosea, M. Chelsoni, Sarcochilus Berkleyii, 
dium cruentum, a fine pan of Anectochilus petola, 
Leelio-Cattleya x Phoebe, and a host of other charming things. 
Following the same side, WELBORE LLIS, ; l- 
bourn, Dorking (C Mr. Mast erton), had a fresh group, com- 
with occasional yi p Miltonia vexillaria, Odo ontoglose 
ramosissimum, O. polyxanthum, a O. Coradinei, with 
four spikes; Cattle eya Mossiæ, a — 0. Warscewiczii, &c. 
And se pee on the same side, Earl PEROY, Sion House, 
Mr. Wythes), stiiged an dainai * 
made up o t Cattle eya Mossi, Cymbidium Low , Vanda, 
suavis, 3 of Cypripedium an cari N 'oitrina» 
Epidendrum vitellinum, ~ 
They we 
Cattleya Lawren atroru ry brilliantly-coloured 
been! with intensely rbright dark ‘purplish-erimson li lip (Award 
f Merit); Miltonia x Bleuana virginalis, a palit white 
— (First-Class 5 ne a J; me aa * gt olyta 
(L. cinnabarina Mos a grand spike bearing 
ei ight flowers and buds Caters ‘Commendation) Miltonia 
superbum 
On other side of the dünnere ee 
St. Albans, had a fine gro 
i e 
Lessrs. F. SANDER & Co 
us 3 “ee which we noted 
Micros 
elutinum, and 
i 
noted C 
superb n Phalee 
a . sm — — herr flowers ‘with beau 
rose-purple o dontoglossum crispum 
peeti 
flowers and lilac elii Sa 
one of the mos st glowing í coloured; form ka 8 favourite species; 
h purple marking 
ae each: side of the lip, the apex being pani very distinct 
ery some Odontoglossum polyxanthum, 
Lelia Digbyana a, &c. 
he ot ther ee of the tent Messrs. B. S. WILLIAMS 
& “sox, Victori ia Paradise Nurseries, Upper Holloway, 
f Orchids in 
the show, and which was replete with good and showy thing; 
great 
form o e species which we have seen, the flowers 
ri g 
the lip dar Of species of great botanical —— 
were = — 8 Vanda concolor and Bra 
Keiliana tristis. 
In the middle of the stage Sir FREDERICK aden poe 
ity 
0 io 
i mg a very beautiful w 
g 
in th ety d of Merit. Also 
in Sir F. Wie AN’S posta were e thschildianum, 
ith six fine flowers; some Masdevallia Ephippium, 
Cattleya Schilleriana, Disa sae e m 
h: 
>€ Esq., oodf 
z — vi 8), had a group Pr o effectively 
d perhaps the largest - flower 
— Wallisii ever e and one h secured a Cul- 
tural Commendation, Amon fine Lelias and Cattleyas 
ong many 
were — eee Fowler’s var, a very fine white of the 
. M. Reineckiana class; the dark Lelia purp 
grand 8 bellatulum 
Hyeanam, &e. 
ELLS, Esq., d House, Sale, Manchester (gr 
Mr. Hinds), showed a a supposed hybrid between a Lio Cattleya 
exoni yaa endeli, also a te C. Mossise 
= pink tinge on lip, aia purpurata Garten Is ossis. 
n A Esq., ‘Tyatestela, Ashton-on-Mersey (er., Mr. T. 
In the adjoining i tent . Hvem Low & Co., Clapton, 
staged a — fine group, pa which thets fine — of Cattle a 
as represen 
a fine eg of C k 
forms of lia a purpur „ L. p. enfieldensis was one pian the 
1 = richest in clos, the size of the labellum 
remar specimens of Cypripedium Dieta, 
Gutters Schilleriana, —— ee and many fine 
ontogloss were in the group, the mos exraordinary of 
enus being 0. 1— Lowii, with the 
was 
clear rose and light — W ng o 
lip ) (Award of of Marit). C. ons b ee a pretty little eee 
al Delicacy were * good and distinc 
* adjoining group was from Mr. Jas. C 
ham, and it was composed principally ie 
Leetia purpurata, for which his jö 0 three of 
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the best, and which well exhibited the 
were L. p. Duchess, a fine w 
r. Oypher's group were some fine „ Also dee 
Ada aurantiaca, Rae 1 Dendrobi g adition, 
toma, Ben: D. tum, D. a f. . Toig, 
imu D. D i, D. nopsis Sch mi 
crispa, Saccolabium ampullaceum, Epi — 
O' Brienianum, C La eana, with twely Rx 
on a spike; Cypripedium X grande tratum, fe 
Messrs, W. L WIS & Co., Chase Side, — i 
imp t group, among which the Cattleyas bs 
a supposed 
e to O. Lindleyanum and O. trium if 
catorei ‘Lewisii, a pretty pe in faee the — m 
ral wa 1 E stant ; ani Milto ; exillaria, = i 
Also a, Me ears. Lows gro 
H & CO, Heaton, Brad 
ood gro up i Orchids, as back row having ser = nt tas 
Odontoglossu ca a, which 
Award of Merit; also two fine forms of O. luteo- 
sceptrum, and a light-coloured O. triumphans. 
OoORKSON, „ Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr., Mr, W. 
Murray), showed a Leelio-Cattleya (O. Warnerii x L. 
rata), which resembled a brightly coloured L,-c, 
M A CKHOUSE ox, York, a preity 
arrangement of Odontoglossum crispum Gleichenia 
H. „ Esq., Stamford House, Ashton Lyne (g, 
R, Esq rappen 
(Kr., este R. 3 sent Oy pripedium g 
E, Esq., Kingston Hill, staged a neat 
Fruit Committee. 
Present: G. q., in ; 
. Bates, G. n, T. F. Rivers, R. Hogg, H. 
G. Reynolds, R. Fife, F. Q e, 
arso: ` 0 
W. Fa arr, S. T. Wri 
G. H. Sage, G. Wythes, and W. H. Divers. 
FRUIT. 
dee classes there was, as mighi 
this = — 
n the 
anticipated shown th 
were von pe l 
at 
superlative merit, no 
each of ppearance ; 
Black 22 rather 12 
thinned, came from Mr. Osman, gr. to 8. J. 1 | 
Ottershaw Park, — Mr. W. 
BERNERS. — „ Woo 
three un nches of Black Hamburg 
solid bance, and berries of very good 8 
without blemish, Brown aire re 
Scarlet 0 
small in bunch. 
Th dishes of Strawberries, viz., RO 
light crimson fruit; Sir J. Paxton, and Laxton 
from Mes. WINGFIELD’S garden, Ampthill, 
W. J. Em vi edi 
t rences. Some o of the be 
were Betty Geeson, Annie Elizabeth, . 
Kent, Allen’s Everlasting, Calville B 2 ban 
fruited Devon Late-keepinz,. Welli 
