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including three home-raised Disa grandiflora, a good plant of Sarcopodium 
acuminatum, Cattleya Gaskelliana alba, and four plants of a nearly allied 
form with pale yellow throat to the lip and a flush of lilac in front. 
Messrs. J. & A. McBean, Cooksbridge, staged a pretty little group, 
including fine examples of Dendrobium Sandere and Dearei, Lzliocattleya 
Aphrodite, two. good Odontioda Charlesworthii, a fine O. Thwaitesii, and 
O. Vuylstekeze, Odontoglossum Hyeanum (Harryanum x luteopurpureum), 
a fine seedling O. crispum, and others. 
FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATES. 
MILTONIA VEXILLARIA Rev. W. WIvks (vexillaria gigantea X v. Queen 
Alexandra).—A form with immense flowers, the lip measuring over three 
inches across, and the colour pale lilac, with a few red lines round the yellow 
disc, while the sepals and petals are relatively broad, and darker in colour, 
with a slight purple flush towards the base. Exhibited by J. Gurney 
Fowler, Esq., Brackenhurst, Pembury (gr. Mr. J. Davis). 
ODONTOGLOSSUM PERCULTUM KiNG GEORGE (Rolfee X armain- 
villierense).—A very large and handsome form, bearing a spike of twelve 
finely-shaped flowers with a broad zone of violet-purple blotches. It has- 
much improved since it received an Award of Merit two years ago. 
Exhibited by F. Monteith Ogilvie, Esq., The Shrubbery, Oxford. 
ODonToNIA CHARLESWORTHII (see page 241, fig. 28). 
AWARD OF MERIT. 
BRASSOCATTLEYA ILENE (B.-c. Maronize x C. Dowiana).—A handsome 
hybrid, bearing two large lilac-rose flowers, with a darker lip, and having a- 
zone of purple lines round the deep yellow throat. Exhibited by Baron 
Bruno Schréder, The Dell, Englefield Green (gr. Mr. Shill). 
CULTURAL COMMENDATIONS. ; 
CaTTLEYA Warscewiczil.—To Mr. J. Davis, gardener to J. Gurney” 
Fowler, Esq., for a splendidly-grown specimen, bearing six spikes and an 
aggregate of twenty-three richly-coloured flowers. 
ODonTocLossuM PEscATOREI.—To Mr. W. H. White, gr. to Elizabeth, 
Lady Lawrence, Burford, for a finely-grown specimen bearing five graceful. 
panicles of flowers. ae 
At the meeting held on July 28th there was a rather small display of 
Orchids, including several choice things, among them the handsome 
Oncidium Leopoldianum, which has at last flowered in cultivation, and the 
awards consisted of two medals and four Awards of Merit. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
and Messrs, J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Gurney Wilson, W. Bolton, R. G. 
Thwaites, A. McBean, T. Armstrong, J. E. Shill, W. H. Hatcher, A. Dye, 
- H. Davidson, C. H. Curtis, S. W. Flory, and Sir Harry J. Veitch. 
