52 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (FEBRUARY, IQII- 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, staged a magnificent 
group of Cypripediums, extending the entire length of the end of the Hall, 
to which a Gold Medal was awarded. It contained over 500 finely-grown 
plants of nearly 200 different kinds. There were masses of C. insigne 
varieties, including most of the best forms, many C. Leeanum and C. 
nitens, with* numerous other kinds, among which were a very fine cross 
between C.Lathamianum and C. Euryades, a tine C. Beeckmanii, C. 
Cowleyanum, C. Niobe, and other Fairrieanum hybrids, C. Goliath, and 
others too numerous to mention. The group was excellent in every 
respect. 
Messrs. James Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham, received a Silver Flora 
Medal for a choice group, including a selection of Masdevallias, Calanthes, 
Lycastes, and Cypripediums, noteworthy among the latter being good forms 
of C. Euryades, insigne, aureum, and Leeanum, a fine C. Beeckmanii, also 
pretty hybrids between C. Leeanum and C. Swinburnei, C. Euryades, and 
C. Mrs. Wm. Mostyn, and others. 
- Messrs. Stuart Low & Co., Enfield, also received a Silver Flora Medal 
for a bright group, including some good Lelia autumnalis, white and 
coloured forms of L. anceps, Cattleya labiata, C. Octave Doin, Renanthera 
Imschootiana, Cymbidium Tracyanum and _ insigne, Odontoglossums, 
Odontiodas, Oncidium varicosum Rogersii, O: bicallosum, O. crispum, 
Cypripedium Priam, C. Niobe, C. Curtmanii, and others. 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, received a Silver. Banksian 
Medal for a good group of Cypripediums, including forms of C. insigne, 
aureum and Euryades, C. Ville de Paris, C. Clionia, C. Thalia, &c. ; also 
C. May, a pretty hybrid between C. Euryades and C. glaucophyllum. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, sent a small group, 
including Odontoglossum crispum xanthotes, O. Aireworth (Lambeauianum 
X crispum Alcyone), a fine, heavily-blotched flower, Leeliocattleya bella 
alba (L. purpurata alba x C. Warneri alba), a fine thing with pure white 
sepals and petals, and a rich purple lip, Odontioda Bradshawie, two 
Cattleya Maggie Raphael with white sepals and petals, and Cypripedium 
Priam. 
Messrs. J. & A. A. McBean, Cooksbridge, sent Odontoglossum crispum 
Canoniz, a fine white form with regular claret-purple blotches, and a good 
hybrid between Cypripedium Beeckmanii and C. Euryades. 
M. Maurice Mertens, Mont.-St.-Amand, Ghent, sent a few good hybrid 
Odontoglossums. 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, sent Be ie Goliath, a aah 
flower allied to C. son giganteum. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. | 
Opontiopa Cookson1& (C. Neetzliana x O. armainvillierense).—A fine 
