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Cattleya parent, but the flower larger, and the broad segments white, with 
a bright yellow throat to the lip. Exhibited by Messrs. Flory & Black. 
AWARD OF MERIT. 
OponTIOoDA JOAN VAR. ROEHAMPTON (Oda. Charlesworthii x Odm. 
armainvillierense).—A brilliant variety, the flower being large and of 
excellent shape, and the colour rich claret, narrowly margined with white, 
and the crest yellow. Exhibited by Dr. Miguel Lacroze. 
PRELIMINARY COMMENDATIONS. 
OponToGLossuM GENERAL Focu (Armstrongii x Colossus).—A 
brilliant seedling, the flower being very large and of excellent shape. The 
ground colour is white, with numerous violet blotches on the fringed petals 
and on the lip, while the sepals are largely monopolised by the latter colour. 
It should develop into a fine thing. Exhibited by Messrs. Armstrong & 
Brown. 
OpontTocLossumM MiGuELITo (Dora X Doris magnificum).—Another 
promising seedling, the flower being of fine shape and substance, and the 
colour claret, with a few white splashes and a narrow white margin. 
Exhibited by Dr. Miguel Lacroze. 
GENERAL EXHIBITS. 
H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), staged a 
fine group, to which a Silver Flora Medal was given. It contained a 
beautiful specimen of Miltonia vexillaria memoria G. D. Owen, bearing four 
spikes and an aggregate of seventeen flowers, Odontoglossum crispum 
Snow Queen, O. Oakwood Ruby, the fine O. Hallii King Edward Vil: 
Dendrobium thyrsiflorum, Chondrorhyncha fimbriata, Bulbophyllum 
Lobbii, Cymbidium Lowgrinum, Cypripedium Ajax, and a few Cattleyas 
and Leliocattleyas. : 
Dr. Miguel Lacroze, Roehampton (gr. Miss Roberts 
glossum Catamarca (sceptrum X Fascinator), a pretty yellow hybrid with 
numerous dark red spots, and Brassocattleya Beaumont (Be. Clifton 
magnifica x C. Empress-Frederick), a charming blush-white flower with a 
light greenish yellow disc to the lip. 
Mr. J. E. Shill, The Dell Gardens, Englefield Green, sent a fine plant 
of Odontioda Duchess, one of the O. Coronation set, bearing a panicle of 
large round flowers, heavily marked with scarlet-red, on a cream-white 
ground. 
: Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, 
In which the Odontoglossum group was conspicuous, 
forms of O. eximium xanthotes, O. Bullecourt, Jasper, 
Conqueror, and others, a few good Miltonias vexillaria, St. A 
Venus, examples of Odontioda Henryi, Gloss, rosefieldiensis, Aspasia, 
Bradshawiz and Cooksonie, Leliocattleya Dominiana, Cypripedium 
on), sent Odonto- 
staged a very fine group, 
and included good 
Pescatorei, Victory, 
ndre and 
