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Cultural Certificate were recommended, subject to confirmation at the next 
meeting. (This is the plant of which a figure is given at page 49 of our 
February number, showing its condition last year.) The same exhibitor 
also showed a nice plant of Lycaste trifoliata. 
Mr. P. Weathers, Old Trafford, showed Cattleya Loddigesii albens. 
Mr. A. J. Keeling, Bingley, showed Cypripedium X rubens, a very 
interesting cross between C. Charlesworthii and C. X Harrisianum, which 
should develope into a good thing when it grows stronger. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
THERE was a good display of Orchids at the Drill Hall, James’ St., 
Westminster, on August 15th, and several of the exhibits were of excellent 
quality. The members of the Orchid Committee present were :—H. J. 
Veitch, Esq., in the chair, and Messrs. Ballantine, Chapman, Crawshay, 
Douglas, Fowler, Haywood, Hill, Outram, Pollett, Protheroe, Smee, 
Thorne, Young, and O’Brien (hon. sec.). 
Sir Frederick Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. Young), staged 
a very choice group, including Lzlio-cattleya X Wiganiana, a very large 
and beautiful hybrid, supposed to have descended from Lelia purpurata 
and Lzlio-cattleya X Dominiana, and having rosy-lilac sepals and petals, 
and a deep claret-purple lip (First-class Certificate); L.-c. x Aurora, 
Cattleya x Whitei, Wigan’s variety, a beautiful natural hybrid derived 
from C. Warneri and C. Schilleriana (Award of Merit) ; C. x Atalanta 
(Leopoldi x Warscewiczii), a finely-grown plant (Cultural Commendation), 
and C. X Aclandiz nigrescens, a form with the sepals and petals almost 
uniformly dark-brown. 
The Right Hon. Lord Rothschild, Tring Park (gr. Mr. Hill), sent two 
fine old Orchids which are very rarely seen at exhibitions, namely, 
Stauropsis lissochiloides and Schomburgkia Lyonsil, each of which received 
an Award of Merit. 
Mrs. Mason, The Firs, Warwick (gr. Mr. Lambert), sent cut spikes of 
the handsome Leelio-cattleya x Berthe Fournier (Award of Merit), 
Dendrobium Maccarthiz, Cattleya xX Fowleri, C. Warscewiczii, Cypri- 
pedium Curtisii, and C. x Frau Ida Brandt. 
The Right Hon. Marquis of Salisbury, Hatfield (gr. Mr. Norman), sent 
a splendid plant of Aérides Lawrence® Sanderianum, with thirty-five 
leaves, and four spikes of about three feet in length, to which a Cultural 
Commendation was given. : 
The Rev. F. Paynter, Stoke Hill, Guildford (gr. Mr. Cooke), sent a 
pretty hybrid derived from Cattleya Warneri and probably C. velutina, the 
flowers being buff tinted with rose, and the rounded front lobe of the lip 
