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O. c. Perle de Congo, a pretty blush-tinted and somewhat spotted flower 
(Award of Merit), O. Hallii Lairesseanum, uniformly greenish yellow 
(Award of Merit), a fine O. X excellens, a good O. X .Wilckeanum, 
a yellow form of O. triumphans, O. tripudians, Miltonia vexillaria alba, 
Lelio-cattleya Aphrodite Madame Albert Hye (First-class Certificate), 
L.-c. X Hippolyta with eight superb flowers, and two or three other good 
things. 
J. Rutherford Esq., M.P., Beardwood, Blackburn, staged a fine group, 
consisting chiefly of good forms of Cattleya Mossi, very well cultivated, 
to which a Silver Cup was given. C. M. gloriosa was a large form, of fine 
shape and very richly coloured lip, to which an Award of Merit was given ; 
other noteworthy forms being C. M. Wageneri, Reineckeana, and 
Rappartiana. The centre of the group was occupied by Lelio-cattleya 
Xx Aphrodite var. Ruth, a noble white flower with the front of the lip 
rich amethyst and some light yellow in the throat, and to this a First-Class 
Certificate was given. 
W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stcne (gr. Mr. Stevens), received 
a Silver Cup for a small group of choice Odontoglossums, with a large 
light form of Miltonia vexillaria, and four very good plants of the orange- 
scarlet Cochlioda Noetzliana in front, the whole being neatly arranged on a 
bank of hypnum moss. O. crispum Arthur Brisco, bearing a spike of 
thirteen tinted flowers well spotted on the centre of the segments, received 
a First-class Certificate, and O. triumphans King Alfred, a fine form with 
yellowish-white ground blotched with tawny yellow, an Award of Merit. 
Another noteworthy plant was O. luteopurpureum hystrix, bearing two 
inflorescences, one a spike of thirteen flowers, the other a magnificent 
panicle with six side branches and no less than forty-two flowers. It was 
imported about five years ago, and has been grown on to its present 
excellent condition. The others were O. xX Andersonianum albo- 
maculatum, O. xX Coradenei waltonense and O. X C. Roeblingianum, 
O. Pescatorei, O. x Wilckeanum Lowii, and half-a-dozen good examples 
of O. crispum. 
Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart., Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. Young), 
also received a Silver Cup for an excellent group, including a pretty deep- 
rose form of Phalaenopsis Sanderiana called Wigan’s var. (Award of Merit), 
a fine specimen of Dendrobium thyrsiflorum with ten racemes, D. Dearel, 
D. X Venus, D. x polyphlebium, the rare Stauropsis gigantea, Cypri- 
pedium callosum Sandere, C. bellatulum album, and a fine C. Godefroy, 
Epidendrum Parkinsonianum and Wallisii, Trichopilia tortilis, Cymbidium 
Devonianum with four racemes, fine examples of C. Lowianum, Maxillaria 
Sanderiana, Oncidium cucullatum, Miltonia Reezlii, Cattleya Skinneri alba, 
C. superba, C. Schilleriana, the true Lalia grandis, fine forms > 
