Cypripedium insigne Mooreanum does not differ in the slightest degree from the 
robust habit of the typical plant, except that the flower spikes are longer than in the 
type, growing well and flowering under most different treatment, and in soils 
of the most opposite nature; thus, we recently saw a fine plant of C. insigne, 
bearing between twenty to thirty flowers, growing as a window plant at the 
residence of an enthusiastic amateur, some few miles distant from London. It was 
potted in peat, good garden mould of a somewhat leafy nature, sand, and a 
small portion of bone dust added to the whole. The plant was in excellent health, 
and had occupied the position about three years, this being the second year of its 
flowering. In the same neighbourhood, we saw a plant in a similar condition growing 
in a gentleman’s stove house, and which was also blooming in great profusion, 
bearing some thirty-three flowers. This plant was potted in fibrous peat and light 
turfy loam and sphagnum moss, some small-sized nodules of charcoal being inserted 
at the time of potting. These plants, treated in quite a different manner, were 
equally beautiful, and gave their possessors equal pleasure; in both cases, however, 
the drainage was perfect, and the plants were kept scrupulously clean. 
AWARDS MADE BY THE OrcHID CoMMITTEE OF THE RoyaL HorTIcULTURAL SOCIETY, 
FOR THE THIRD QUARTER IN THE YEAR, 1891. 
JuLty 21st. First Class Certificate to Hamar Bass, Esq., Byrkley, for Cattleya 
Hardyana, Bass's var. The flower was very large, sepals and petals broad, and 
deep rosy lilac, the lip deep purple, having the throat orange-yellow, streaked with 
deep rich purple. 
Botanical Certificate to Messrs. B. S. Williams and Son for Cochlioda Noetzliana, 
flowers deep orange-vermilion coloured. | 
Aveust 11th. First Class Certificate to Messrs. Veitch and Sons, Chelsea, for 
Cypripedium macrochilum, a cross between C. longifolium and Uropedium Lindenit, 
a curious hybrid, having the general appearance of C. Wallsii, but with a very 
much larger lip. . 
First Class Certificate to Messrs. Veitch and Sons for Cypripedium 
Corningianum, a hybrid between C. superbiens and C. philippinense, having 
somewhat the appearance of C. Morganie, but smaller, the petals much spotted. 
Award of Merit to Thomas Statter, Esq., Rawtenstall, for Dendrobium 
Statterianum, a supposed hybrid between D. crystallinum and D. Bensonie; and the 
same award to Messrs. Seeger and Tropp, Dulwich, for Cattleya Gaskelliana speciosa, 
sepals and petals pure white, lip white, having a bright crimson blotch on the front 
lobe, which is bordered ‘with white, throat rich yellow. 
Botanical Certificate to Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth and Co., Bradford and 
Clapham, for Odontoglossum Hinnisii, a very pretty species with yellow and 
brown flowers. : 
: (Continued under Plate 446.) 
