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Ilene rosea (C. Dowiana aurea x B.-c. Maroniz), out of the same batch 
as the one that received an Award of Merit a few weeks earlier (p. 178), but 
much more like the pollen parent in general character. 
FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATE. 
ODONTOGLOssUM WoOoDROFFE® (O. Rossii rubescens Xx Queen 
Alexandra).—A remarkably handsome hybrid, having very dark brown 
sepals and petals, with a few narrow transverse light yellow lines, and the 
large elliptic-oblong front lobe of the lip uniform rose-purple, with a yellow 
disc, and a yellow somewhat toothed crest. Exhibited by E. H. Davidson, 
Esq., Twyford. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
CATTLEYA LORD ROTHSCHILD VAR. ALBESCENS (C. Gaskelliana x C. 
Dowiana aurea).—A beautifu! form with blush-white sepals and petals, and 
the lip rose-pink, with a paler margin and much yellow veining on the disc. 
Exhibited by Messrs. J. & A. A. McBean, Cooksbridge. 
LA&LIOCATTLEYA HASTEDIANA GLEBE VAR. (L.-c. Greenwoodii x C. 
Dowiana aurea).—A handsome hybrid, having very rich rose-purple sepals ° 
and petals, and an intense purple-crimson, very undulate lip, with a little 
yellow veining in the throat. Exhibited by C. J. Phillips, Esq., The Glebe, 
Sevenoaks. 
OpoNTIODA MARGARITA (O. madrense x C. Neetzliana).—A very 
charming hybrid, bearing a raceme of eleven flowers, fairly intermediate in 
size and shape, and the sepals and petals having a large orange-brown 
basal blotch and a pink margin, while the front lobe of the lip is pink, with 
a smaller orange blotch in front of the yellow crest. Exhibited by M. 
Henri Graire, St. Fuscien, France (gr. M. de Voss). 
ODONTOGLOssUM NEPTUNE (crispum X apterum).—A beautiful hybrid, 
bearing two very round white flowers, with many red-brown dots on the 
sepals and petals, and a large red-brown blotch on the lip in front of the 
yellow crest. Thecolumn wings are very small. Exhibited by M. Henri 
Graire, St. Fuscien. 
Z UM MAXILLARE SANDERIANA.—A very charming form, with 
the front lobe of the lip white, the crest purple, and the sepals and petals 
green, with a few brown markings. The plant bore four spikes of flowers. 
Exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., Burford, Dorking 
(gr. Mr. W. H. White). 
CULTURAL COMMENDATIONS. 
CYPRIPEDIUM LorD DeErRBy.—To Mr. J. E. Shill, gardener to Baron 
Bruno Schréder, The Dell, Englefield Green, for a magnificently-grown 
specimen, bearing fourteen racemes, the majority with three flowers. 
VANDA CCERULEA Luton Hoo var.—To Mr. A. W. Metcalfe, gardener 
to Lady Wernher, Luton Hoo, Beds., for a finely grown plant, bearing an 
