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plant with a lateral branch to the inflorescence, and the flowers of 
perfect shape, and brilliant reddish scarlet, with a white margin and a pale 
rose tint on the front of the lip. Shown by J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. 
L#LIOCATTLEYA CRANSTOUNI®, WESTONBIRT VAR. (C. Harrisoniana X 
L. tenebrosa, Walton Grange var.).—A very handsome form, the in- 
florescence bearing six large flowers, with primrose yellow sepals-and petals, 
and the lip white, with a rosy crimson veined blotch on each side of the 
front lobe, and a few dark lines at the base. Shown by Lieut.-Col. Sir 
George L. Holford. 
CULTURAL COMMENDATION. 
CYPRIPEDIUM CHRYSOTOXUM VAR. VICTOR (Lathamianum xX villosum.— 
A very fine plant, with nine large flowers. To Mr. J. Davis, gr. to 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. 
At the meeting held on January 17th there was a very fine display of 
Orchids, and the awards included one Gold and ten other medals, one 
First-class Certificate, four Awards of Merit, and two Botanical Certificates. 
Orchid Committee present :—J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., in the Chair, and 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (Hon. Sec.), H. J. Veitch, de Barri Crawshay, H. Little, 
R. G. Thwaites, F. M. Ogilvie, W. Cobb, J. Cypher, W. H. Hatcher, A. 
Dye, C. H. Curtis, W. H. White, H. Ballantine, Gurney Wilson, W. 
Bolton, R. Brooman White, H. J. Chapman, S. Low, J. Wilson Fontes 
J. S. Moss, W. Waters Butler, and Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. 
Mrs. Norman C. Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. H. a 
Chapman), was awarded a Silver-gilt Banksian Medal for a very interesting 
group of hybrids raised in the collection, including Cattleya Chapmanii 
(Triane xX Hardyana), Cypripedium Kenneth (hirsutissimum x Calypso), 
with much purple on the dorsal sepal, a good C. Venus, C. oakwoodiense, 
C. Regina (Leeanum xX Fairrieanum), Lelia Degeestiana, the finely 
blotched Odontoglossum crispum Chapmanii (O. c. Cooksonie Xx O. Cc. 
Cooksonianum), Odontoglossum Telemachus (loochristiense x excellens, 
Prince of Orange), a good yellow form most resembling O. excellens, 
Odontioda Bradshawiz, Cookson’s var., and others. 
Mrs. Geoffrey Lubbock, Broadoaks, West Byfleet (gr. Mr. J. B. ino 
received a Silver Banksian Medal for a group of Dendrobium nobile and D. 
Wardianum. 
E. Roberts, Esq., Park Lodge, Elhani: received a Silver Banksian 
Medal for a group of hybrid Cypripediums, including a fine C. Sir Redvers 
Buller with two twin-flowered scapes, C. Miss Mary Roberts (insigne X 
Actus), a well-blotched flower, and other good things. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, . Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), 
Staged a very interesting group, including the strikingly fringed Bulbo- 
