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grandiflora (majalis), Cymbidium Lowianum and var. concolor, Cypripedium 
Lowianum Gratixianum, Lzlio- -cattleya X highburyesis, Oncidium Kramer- 
ianum, O. Marshallianum, Lelia Digbyana, Odontoglossum Uroskinneri, 
Cypripedium insigne Sandere, Cattleya Skinneri alba, Dendrobium Dearei, 
&c. An Award of Merit was given to Cattleya Mendelii Mrs. Robert 
Tunstill, a pretty, light form. 
Messrs. Stanley Ashton & Co., Southgate, received a Silver-gilt Flora 
Medal for a showy group, containing some good Cattleyas and Odonto- 
glossums, together with Miltonia vexillaria, Masdevallias, Oncidium sarcodes 
and Marshallianum, Cypripediums, Lelio-cattleya Massangeana, L.-c. X 
highburyensis, Cochlioda Noetzliana, Vanda tricolor, and other good things. 
An Award of Merit was given to Odontoglossum ¢crispum Abner Hassell: 
a large and finely blotched form. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, staged a very fine group, 
to whicha Silver Flora Medal was given. Besides the usual showy things | 
of the season, it contained some fine hybrids, of which the firm has made 
such a speciality. We noted the handsome Leelio-cattleya x Major- 
General Baden Powell (L. tenebrosa x C. Lawrenceana), L.-c. X G. S. 
Ball, a splendid L.-c. xX callistoglossa, L.-c. x Hippolyta, a splendid plant 
bearing three sturdy spikes and an aggregate of thirty-two flowers (Cultural 
Commendation), L.-c. x Ivernia (L.-c. x callistoglossa X L. tenebrosa) a 
~ fine thing which gained an Award of Merit, Laelia x Mozart (Boothiana 
X purpurata), L. Digbyana, some fine Cattleyas, Oncidiums, and Miltonias, 
Diacrium bicornutum, Masdevallia x Arminii, the remarkable M. X 
Imogene, ‘Odontoglossum Halli heatonense, having the disc of all the 
segments suffused with deep chocolate brown, O. x elegans, and many other 
fine Odontoglossums, &c. 
Messrs. Linden, { Bericliture Coloniale, Brussels, showed a fine lot 
of the Bornean Phalenopsis amabilis among a lot of scarlet Hemanthus, 
and gained a Silver Flora Medal. : 
Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper Holloway, staged a fine group 
of the usual showy things of the season, and containing some good Vandas 
in the background, which received a Silver-gilt Banksian Medal. 
M. FI. Claes, Etterbeck, Brussels, received a Silver Banksian Medal 
for a fine group of Odontoglossums, in which forms of O. crispum and its 
hybrids were conspicuous. O. c. Captain Hocken, a fine spotted form, 
_Teceived an Award of Merit. 
Messrs. John Cowan & Cog Geccace. Liverpool, also eccioed a 
Silver Banksian Medal for a fine group of showy things, in which Odonto- 
glossums and Cattleyas were pcs oa also two fine plants of Caelogyne 
pandurata. Bs 
M. A. A. — St. Gilles, Brussels, sent the handsome Cattleya x 
