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A week later Mr. Philip Parkes stated that on March 5th, 1867, he was 
awarded the Lindley Medal for an exhibit of three Phalenopsis Schilleriana 
at South Kensington, but though thirty years have passed it has not yet 
come into his possession. In April, 1867, Mr. G. Eyles wrote “‘ that the 
medal was awarded to me, and was in course of preparation, and that I 
might expect it in a fortnight or so.” In 1874, Col. Davenport wrote that 
‘“‘ when the distribution of Lindley Medals took place I should not be over- 
looked,” a promise repeated in August 1875. ‘I have long given up any 
hope,” the writer adds, ‘‘that- may have lingered through many years, that the 
promises of the secretaries will be redeemed. Still, I may be pardoned in 
desiring to know whether others actually received the medals? Not for 
-its intrinsic value did I covet this prize, but in winning a medal specially 
given in memory of one of our greatest horticulturists, and bestowed on 
such rare occasions, there was to me an honourable distinction, which the 
Society, by withholding the medal, has never recognised.”"—I. c., Nov. 13th, 
P- 349- 
Mr. James Anderson states that although he did not get the Lindley 
Medal, it was certainly intended to give him one for two grand examples of 
Odontoglossum grande which were sent up from Meadow Bank quite thirty 
years ago ‘‘ both with branched panicles of extraordinary sized flowers, half 
as big again as the best we see now. _The one panicle had sixteen flowers 
and the other fifteen flowers, and the substance, the ground-colour, and the 
blotching were such as had never been seen before nor since up to this day. 
The Council sitting at the time were unanimous in expressing that such a 
marked example of cultural development was worthy of the coveted Lindley 
Medal. Mr. Barron has several times since told me that no such example 
of Orchid culture had ever been submitted in London, and it must have 
been an oversight on the part of the Council to pass it by.’”’ Mr. Anderson 
concludes by saying that the Lindley Medal ought not to be lost among 
horticultural honours.—l. c., Nov. 2oth, p. 369. It certainly deserves a 
better fate. 
The following note respecting Cattleya labiata is taken from the Report 
of the Scientific Committee of the R. H. S. for November gth last (G. C., 
Nov. 20th, p. 370) :—‘‘ The species was introduced some fifty years ago, and 
subsequently lost ; but it had been lately re-discovered in and introduced 
from Pernambuco.” And this is the plant which flowered for the first 
time in Europe in 1818, and has been continuously cultivated ever since ; 
of which Messrs. Veitch, just prior to its re-discovery, wrote :—‘‘ Notwith- 
standing its long sojourn in this country, propagation by division, the only 
available method, has been no more than sufficient to secure a limited 
