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E. J. Sidebotham, Esq., Bowden, Cheshire, sent the pretty Dendrobium 
nobile roseum, with flowers of a light cherry-red colour. . 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton Nursery, staged a fine group, to 
which a Silver Banksian Medal was given. It included the pretty Odonto- 
glossum X Andersonianum flaveolum with yellow unspotted flowers, some 
good O. crispum and others, Oncidium Papilio, O. sarcodes, O. phymato- 
chilum, Lelio-cattleya x Schilleriana, some fine Cattleya Mendelii, C. 
Lawrenceana concolor, Dendrobium Bensone, D. lituiflorum, Cypripedium 
Curtisii, Selenipedium X grande, &c. An Award of Merit was given to 
Odontoglossum X excellens Lowiz, a very fine form with a spike of fifteen 
bright yellow, well spotted flowers. 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, also received a Silver Banksian 
Medal for a fine group, including a very dwarf Sobralia macrantha Kienas- 
tiana, only a foot high, Miltonia Warscewiczii, M. Phalenopsis, some good 
M. vexillaria and M. v. leucoglossa, Dendrobium Phalznopsis, Masdevallia 
x Mundyana, Lycaste Skinneri with white lip and similar tips to the 
petals, Phalznopsis Aphrodite, Ccelogyne tomentosa, Vanda Bensoni, some fine 
Oncidium Marshallianum, Odontoglossum crispum, O. luteopurpureum, &c. 
Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper Holloway, also received a Silver 
Banksian Medal for a fine group, containing Eulophiella Elizabethe, some 
fine forms of Cattleya Mendelii, C. Lawrenceana, Lycaste Schilleriana, 
many fine Odontoglossums, Dendrobium Devonianum, D. crystallinum, D. 
thyrsiflorum, a pretty form of Miltonia spectabilis with some purple marks 
on the petals and radiating lines on the lip, Calanthe veratrifolia, Oncidium. 
concolor, O. Phalznopsis, Ada aurantiaca, the pretty Trichocentrum 
tigrinum, Vanda suavis, Cypripedium X vexillarium, C. xX Io grande, C. 
Boxallii, C. barbatum Warneri, &c. 
The Council of the Royal Horticultural Society have issued a circular 
reminding exhibitors that the object of the bi-monthly meetings of the 
various Committees was to allow any new or rare flower or fruit to be 
exhibited and submitted to a body of experts at a time when they were in 
perfection. A practice has now grown up of exhibiting groups and 
collections of well-known old plants at these meetings, under which 
circumstances there is some danger of the more important work of the 
Committees being lost sight of. The Council are grateful to the various 
exhibitors by whose efforts the Drill Hall has been kept well filled, but they 
feel that the time has now arrived when some limit must be imposed, and 
they have therefore drawn up certain regulations, which the Superintendent 
is instructed to see carried out. In the case of new or rare plants 
submitted to the notice of the various Committees no alterations whatever 
will be made in the existing regulations, but intending exhibitors of groups 
