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ochreatum luteum, having lemon-yellow’ Howers, with a purple blotch ~~ 
the base of the lip. 
FIrRsT-CLAss CERTIFICATES. 
ODONTOGLOsSUM Europa (cceruleum xX crispum F. K. Sander).—A 
very beautiful and richly-coloured hybrid, having broad reddish-violet 
sepals and petals, with a narrow white margin and a small white area at the 
base and apex, while the lip has a large sedis violot bloteh in front of the 
crest, the front lobe being white. 
AWARD OF MERIT. 
- ODONTIODA ROSEFIELDIENSIS VAR. CRAWSHAYANA (Odontoglossum> 
triumphans X Cochlioda Netzliana)—A very large and striking form, 
having yellow flowers tinged with red-brown, and the centre of the lip 
= ce ae 
ORCHIDS AT THE FLORENCE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 
At page 190 we alluded to two fine groups of Orchids which received 
Gold Medals at the recent International Horticultural Exhibition at— 
Florence, and we now give a few details of their composition. The com- 
petitive groups have already been dealt with. 
~ Messrs. Charlesworth’s group contained a fine plant of Miltonioda Ajax 
with sixteen flowers, Odontioda Charlesworthii, Lutetia, Cooksoniz, Brad- 
shawiz, Cassiope (C. Neetzliana x O. amabile), and Diana (O. amabile. x 
Odontioda heatonensis), Zygocolax Charlesworthii, Cochlioda Neetzliana, 
Odontoglossum crispum, polyxanthum, Solon, Eleanor, Adriane, Law- 
renceanum, Wilckeanum, concinnum, Phoebe, armainvillierense, eximium, 
Jasper (oakwoodiense ¥ armainvillierense), Thompsonianum, Trichopilia_ 
Backhouseana, distinct forms of Sophrocattleya Marathon, Brassocattleya ~ 
Queen Elena (B.-c. Veitchii x C. Triane alba), a very beautiful white 
hybrid, some good Dendrobium infundibulum, Phalenopsis amabilis, 
Lzliocatt!eya Prospero, Cattleya Mossiz Wageneri, C. Empress Frederick, © 
C. Salus (superba X Mossiz), Cypripedium Transvaal, C. Wottoni, C. A. 
de -Lairesse, and others, some of the —— being represented by two or 
more:examples, and all good. 
Messrs. Stuart Low & Co.’s group included fine plants of Odontioda_ 
Bradshawie, heatonensis, Charlesworthii, keighleyensis, Renanthera 
Imschootiana, Epidendrum vitellinum and odoratissimum, Odontoglossum * 
Pescatorei, triumphans, crispum in variety, concinnum, Dendrobium 
nobile, thyrsiflorum, Wardianum, Jamesianum, Brymerianum, Pierardii, 
chrysotoxum, and crepidatum, Masdevallia coccinea, Cymbidium Lowianum, 
Brassocattleya langleyensis, Saccolabium bellinum, Cattleya citrina, C€. 
Mossiz, C. M. Reineckeana, C. Loddigesii, C. Schreedere, C. Empress 
Frederick, C. Mendelii, Oncidium sarcodes, pubes, ampliatum, Marshall- 
