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GENERAL EXHIBITS. 
J. Ansaldo, Esq., Rosebank, Mumbles, sent Sophrocatlelia Corona 
Ansaldo’s var. (Lc. rubens X Sc. Dorila), in which the Lelia pumila 
influence coming in through both parents is very marked. The habit is 
dwarf, and the broad sepals and petals rosy mauve, with a shade of orange, 
and the lip rosy purple with a yellow disc. 
Baron Bruno Schréder, The Dell, Englefield Green (gr. Mr. J. E. Shill), 
showed a flower of Cattleya illustris var. Savoyard (iridescens X Acis), pale 
canary yellow in colour, with the front lobe of the lip light purple. 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, were awarded a Silver 
Flora Medal for a choice group, including Odontioda Una (Odm. Halli x 
Oda. Charlesworthii), blotched with reddish purple on a cream-white 
ground, and with a strongly-toothed yellow crest, Miltonia Rev. W. Wilks, 
with large rosy flowers, Cattleya illustris Orchidhurst var., clear yellow 
with rosy veining on the lip, Leliocattleya Pronax (elegans X George 
Woodhams), a richly-coloured form, and others. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, also obtained a Silver 
Flora Medal for a fine group, including Leliocattleya Marina (Le. St.- 
Gothard x C. Hardyana), a striking thing, having deep rose sepals and 
petals, and a broad ruby purple lip, lined with deep yellow in the throat, 
Le. Agnes (C. Schillerianum X Lc. callistoglossa), most like the Cattleya 
in general character, Lc. Appam, yellow with the front of the lip ruby 
purple, a fine specimen of Miltonia vexillaria rubella with numerous 
spikes, some good forms of Odontoglossum armainvillierense, O. eximium, 
O. crispum xanthotes, and other good things. 
JAPANESE correspondent who is anxious to raise some seedling 
Cattleyas writes: I have been trying to hybridise Cattleyas for the 
last two years without result, and someone has told me that in England 
the germinating material can be bought—material which has already been 
treated with the Cattleya Fungus, and on which the seeds can be sown, 
and that without this it is impossible to raise seedlings of Cattleya. Your 
views and assistance in the matter will be much appreciated. 
This is probably an echo of the experiments carried out by the late M. 
Noel Bernard, and his conclusions as to the necessary co-operation of the 
Orchid fungus, but we do not. know of anyone keeping the germinating 
medium on sale, hence the assistance of any reader who has experience of 
the matter will be much appreciated. The question has been discussed in 
these pages on several occasions, and some years ago M. Bernard sent us an 
Gees | GERMINATING CATTLEYA SEEDS. 
