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Messrs. J. & A. A. McBean, Cooksbridge, were also awarded a Silver 
Banksian Medal for a good group, including examples of Cymbidium 
eburneum and Veitchii, some good Cattleya Schroeder, Odontoglossum 
crispum and others, with good examples of Epiphronitis Veitchii. 
Mr. W. Bolton, Warrington, sent a spike of a Dendrobium of the atro- 
violaceum group, which had been imported with D. Ashworthiz. 
: FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATE. 
_ ODONTOGLOSSUM JEANETTE (Rossil rubescens° X amabile).—A very 
handsome hybrid which is described and figured on page 113. Exhibited 
by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. 
‘ AWARDS OF MERIT. 
CYMBIDIUM ALEXANDERI (Veitchii X insigne).—A very pretty hybrid, 
with broad cream-white sepals and petals, tinged and somewhat lined with 
pink, and the lip white, blotched with rose in front, and somewhat striped 
on the side lobes. Exhibited by Lt.-Col. Sir G. L. Holford, K.C.V.O., 
Westonbirt (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander). 
CyMBIDIUM GOTTIANUM (eburneum X insigne).—Another handsome 
thing having white flowers, with some purple spotting on the front lobe of 
the lip, and some similar lines on the side lobes. Exhibited by Messrs. 
Sander & Sons. 
L#LIOCATTLEYA DOoOMINIANA MONKEND VAR. (L. purpurata X C. 
Dowiana).-A fine form, with purplish lilac sepals and petals, and a deep 
purple-crimson lip, with some yellow veining in the throat. Exhibited by 
H. A. Inness, Esq. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM MIRUM BRUGENSE (crispum blotched var. X Wilcke- 
anum).—A finely-shaped hybrid, having the sepals and petals heavily blotched 
with red-purple on a white ground. Exhibited by Messrs. Sander & Sons. 
At the meeting held on March 28th nine groups were distinguished by the 
award of medals, while one First-class Certificate and two Awards of Merit 
were also given. 
Orchid Committee present :—J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., in the Chair, and 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (Hon. Sec.), Harry J. Veitch, Gurney Wilson, R. G. 
Thwaites, F. M. Ogilvie, F. Sander, T. Armstrong, Walter Cobb, J. Cypher, 
W. H. Hatcher, A. Dye, W. H. White, H. Ballantine, J. S. Moss, Ww. 
Bolton, C. Cookson, Stuart Low, de Barri Crawshay, and H. G. Alexander. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., V.M.H., Gatton Park (gr. Mr. Collier), 
staged a fine group, including several beautiful examples of Odontoglossum 
Thompsonianum, O. Queen of Gatton, and others, Coelogyne Sandere, 
the rare Dendrobium Beckleri, several well-bloomed Epidiacrium Colmanii, 
Diacattleya Colmanie, Diacattlelia Gatton Rose, and a fine Odontioda, 
which is mentioned under Awards. 
