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PRELIMINARY COMMENDATIONS. 
OponToGLossumM ApoNnIs (hybrid unrecorded X crispum solum).—A 
remarkable seedling, the flower having very broad white segments, with 
one round claret-purple blotch on each, the latter character showing the 
influence of the pollen parent. Exhibited by Messrs. Armstrong & Brown. 
Oponrocitossum AspasIA (Mars X Colossus).—Another promising 
seedling, having a flower of good shape, and regularly blotched with claret- 
red ona white ground. Exhibited by Messrs. Armstrong X Brown. 
OponTocLossuM Nysa (eximium X Alexandra).—A very richly-coloured 
hybrid, with the lower three-fourths of the segments closely blotched with 
_ claret-purple, and the upper part tinged with rose. Exhibited by Messrs. 
Charlesworth & Co. 
. GENERAL EXHIBITS. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park (gr. Mr. Collier), sent a fine 
spike of Cattleya Brownie with nineteen flowers, and an equally fine spike 
of Odontoglossum coronarium. 
Dr. Miguel Lacroze, Bryndir, Roehampton, sent Cattleya Miguelito 
(Octave Doin x Dowiana aurea), most approaching the latter, and C. 
armainvillierensis (Warscewiczii X Mendelii), a fine thing of intermediate 
character. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, staged an exceptionally 
fine group, of some nire yards frontage, to which a Silver-gilt Flora Medal 
was awarded. It contained a fine lot of well-grown Odontoglossums, 
Cattleyas and Lzeliocattleyas, including good examples of Cattleya Dowiana 
aurea, C. Mira (Rhoda x Dowiana aurea), a pretty light sulphur-yellow 
hybrid with a deep crimson lip, Leliocattleya Appam, Le. Laura (Le. 
Seylla x C. Rothschildiana), apricot yellow with rose-coloured markings 
on the lip, a fine Vanda ccerulea, and others too numerous to mention. 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, received a Silver Flora 
Medal for a fine group, mostly hybrids, including several charming white 
Cattleyas, C. labiata Prince of Wales, white with a flush of lilac on the lip, 
forms of C, Venus, Brassocattleya The Baroness Orchidhurst var» a 
_ beautiful yellow hybrid, Sophrocattleya luminosa (Sc. Chamberlainiana x 
- Dowiana aurea), salmon-rose, with yellow lines on the lip, which is 
darker jin front, Leeliocattleya Wrigleyi, Cymbidium Ariadne, aC. 
*tythrostylum hybrid of which C. glebelandense roseum is believed to be 
the other parent, and other good things. f 
Messrs. Hassall & Co., Southgate, received a Silver Banksian Medal for 
: 800d group, including Brassocattleya Moira (C. na x 
ag white, with a light yellow disc to the lip, 4 good aR . oe ae 
a, Cattleya Hilary (Harrisoniana X Enid), with rosy Hiac sep 
Petals, and the lip yellow with some purple in front, good forms of Cattleya 
