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labellum deeply frilled round the entire margin, of rich crimson-purple, and: 
with orange yellow areas in the throat. 
AWARD OF MERIT. 
Odontioda Renown (Oda. Coronation X Odm. Victory), from Messrs. 
Armstrong & Brown. A finely developed plant with a tall spike carrying 
several large flowers and buds. All the segments broad, flatly displayed, 
and of a pleasing reddish scarlet colour. 
CULTURAL COMMENDATION. 
To Mr..J. E. Shill, for a superb example of the magnificent. Brasso- 
cattlelia Amber, exhibited by Baron Bruno Schroder, Englefield Green, 
Surrey, and to which a First-class Certificate was awarded September 21st, 
1920. On the present occasion, the spike carried three large flowers of fine 
proportions, and of a golden-amber colour, the lip having a slight rose 
mottling round the margin. 
GROUPS. 
A Silver Flora Medal was awarded to Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. for 
an excellent exhibit containing fine varieties of C. Lord Rothschild, C. Enid, 
with broad petals, Lc. Golden Wren, of a pleasing apricot-yellow tint, Le. 
Athene, rich purple, Cypripedium Kimballianum, Cyp. Rappartianum, and 
Cyp. J. H. Veitch, the latter remarkable for its long and handsome petals. 
Among the yellows was a fine plant of Brassocattleya Sofrano. 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown were awarded a Silver Flora Medal for an 
attractive selection of hybrids. The plants were fine examples of good 
cultivation, and included Cattleya Iris with 14 flowers, another with 7 
blooms on a spike, C. Maronii, with a fine cluster of 10 pretty flowers, 
Lzliocattleya Geo. Woodhams, with several deep purple flowers, also Le. 
Henry Greenwood, and the singular Oncidium Kramerianum. 
Messrs. Sanders received a Silver Banksian Medal for a neat group of 
choice hybrids, among them being Cattleya nivea (C. Leopoldii alba x C. 
Lady Veitch), with creamy white flowers, C. Fulva, always pleasing, C. Iris, 
the pretty C. Dupreana alba, Leliocattleya Soulange, showing much aurea 
influence in the lip. In the centre was a fine plant of Odontonia brugensis 
with numerous rose-purple flowers. 
Messrs. Flory & Black staged Brassocattleya Ilene, with large rose 
coloured flowers, Brassocattleya.'Caduceus, a very pretty result, in which 
the delicate tinted flowers had a lilac-pink lip, also- Lc. Chimera Rosita, 
with cream coloured sepals and petals; and the handsome Cirrhopetallum 
Rothschildianum. 
Messrs. Stuart Low & Co. exhibited Cattleya Suavior picta, the result 
of crossing C. intermedia Aquinii with C. Mendelii, the broad petals carry- 
ing forward the peculiar purple blotches seen on the petals of the former 
parent. 4 ee 
