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ianum, triumphans, Massaianum, and Clarksoniz (Actezeus X insigne Laura 
Kimball), most resembling the latter. 
Class 12 was fora group of not more than fifty plants of Vanda 
coerulea, and contained one remarkable exhibit from Lieut.-Col. Sir G. L. 
Holford (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander), to which a Gold Medal and a Silver- 
gilt Lindley Medal were awarded. There were about forty-five magnificent 
plants with from one to three large spikes, one bearing a branched spike 
and no fewer than 45 flowers, and another two spikes and 38 flowers. They 
were arranged with a fine lot of Oncidium varicosum, which showed up the 
blue of the Vandas to great advantage. 
Classes 13 and 14, for twelve plants of Vanda ccerulea (Amateurs and 
Nurserymen), 15 and 16 for six plants (ditto), 17 for a group of Odonto- 
glossums and Odontiodas, species, hybrids, and varieties (open), 18, the 
same (Amateurs), 19 and 20, for a group of Calanthes, species, hybrids, and 
varieties (Amateurs and Nurserymen), and 21, for a specimen Orchid 
(Amateurs), were all blank. 
In Class 22, three specimen Orchids (Amateurs), Mrs. Cookson, Oak- 
wood, Wylam (gr. Mr. H. J. Chapman), was awarded a Silver-gilt Banksian 
Medal for good plants of the blush-white Calanthe Cooksoniz, the dark 
ruby crimson C. Angela, with two spikes, and the handsome Odontioda 
Bradshawiz Cookson’s var. with twelve large flowers, the latter also bearing 
a capsule. 
Class 23, for six specimen Orchids (Amateurs), was blank, and in 24, for 
a specimen Orchid (Nurserymen), a Silver Banksian Medal was awarded to 
Mr. S. Flory, Twickenham, for a large specimen of Cymbidium Tracyanum, 
bearing four fine racemes of twelve and thirteen flowers each. 
Classes 25 and 26, for three and six specimen Orchids (Nurserymen), 
were blank, and in class 27, for a collection of Botanical interest, those 
with coloured or variegated foliage not necessarily in flower (Amateurs), the 
only exhibit was by Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park (gr. Mr. 
Collier), to which a Silver Cup was awarded. It contained a beautiful 
specimen of Ornithidium Sophronitis, covered with its pretty scarlet 
flowers, Saccolabium acutifolium, with six spikes, Liparis longipes, covered 
with flowers, Restrepia striata, the remarkable Bulbophyllum lemnis- 
catoides, B. Godseffanum, crassipes, and mirum, Masdevailia Courtauld- 
jana, Doris, inflata, and Vespertilio, melanoxantha, pachyura, Mooreana, 
macrura, and ventricularia longicaudata, Pleurothallis Diane, Dendro- 
chilum Cobbianum, Stenoglottis longifolia, Epidendrum  nocturnum, 
Scaphosepalum ochthodes and pulvinare, Collabium nebulosum, Sarco- 
podium Ceelogyne, Angraecum distichum, Coelogyne fulginosa, and other 
interesting things. Class 28, a similar class for Nurserymen was blank. 
There were four classes for Northern growers, three of which contained 
