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Awarps oF MERIT. 
BRASSOCATTLEYA MARION (parentage unrecorded).—A beautiful hybrid, 
having blush pink sepals and petals, and the broad lip darker, well fringed, 
and flaked with purple on the front lobe. Exhibited by Messrs. James 
Veitch & Sons. 
CATTLEYA THURGOODIANA VaR. APOLLO (Hardyana X Lueddemanniana). 
—A handsome form, with rose-purple sepals and petals, and the front lobe 
of the lip deep purple-crimson. Exhibited by Messrs. Stuart Low & Co. 
L.&LIOCATTLEYA RUBENS VAR. THE KAISER (L. pumila X C. Hardyana). 
—A brilliantly-coloured form, having large and well-shaped blooms, with 
bright rose-coloured sepals and petals, and the lip dark purple with a deep 
yellow disc. Exhibited by E. H. Davidson, Esq., Borlases, Twyford. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM PERCULTUM VAR. KING GEORGE (armainvillierense X 
Rolfez).—A large and handsome form, having the flowers white, copiously 
blotched with purple. Exhibited by F. M. Ogilvie, Esq., The Shrubbery, 
Oxford (gr. Mr. W. Balmforth). 
CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION. 
OponToniA EpNA (Miltonia Warscewiczii X Odontoglossum Wilcke- 
anum).—A striking form, most like the former in shape, and bearing a 
branched spike of flowers, blotched with orange-brown on the sepals and 
petals, Exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyAL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING of the Royal Horticultural Society was held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on July 16th, when the 
feature of the meeting was a magnificent albino of Cattleya Warscewiczil, 
exhibited by M. Firmin Lambeau (see Awards). 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), and 
Messts. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), W. Bolton, J. Wilson Potter, C. H. Curtis, 
A. Dye, H. G. Alexander, J. E. Shill, W. H. Hatcher, J. Charlesworth, 
T. Armstrong, F. Sander, W. Thompson, Gurney Wilson, W. H. White, 
Stuart Low, and F. J. Hanbury. 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham (gr. Mr. Black), received 
a Silver Banksian Medal for a choice groupof Orchids, including good 
examples of Lzliocattleya rubens and Ingramii, the white Miltonia vexillaria 
Queen Alexandra, Odontoglossum Rolfe and Harryanum, and some fine 
forms of Odontioda Thwaitesii and Charlesworthii. 
F. J. Hanbury, Esq., Brockhurst, East Grinstead, showed Brassocattleya 
Faith (Brassavola Perrinii X Cattleya Leopoldii), an interesting novelty, 
most like the former in shape, and having pale green sepals and petals, . 
marked with purple, and a blush white lip with some rose-coloured spots. 
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