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Victoria-Mariz, Oncidium leucochilum nigrum, and a group of other select 
-and showy Orchids. 
Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Chelsea, exhibited Dendrobium x 
Mentor, a very pretty hybrid with pretty light rose flowers, derived from 
D. primulinum ? and D superbum @, and the very charming Lezelio-cattleya 
x Hippolyta, derived from Cattleya Mossiz ? and Lelia cinnabarina 2. 
THE TEMPLE SHOW. 
THE Great Annual Flower Show of the Royal Horticultural Society was 
held in the Temple Gardens on May 25th and 26th, and, as is usually the 
case, the Orchids formed the leading feature. The broad stage running 
down the centre of the great marquee, one hundred feet long, was wholly 
occupied by these plants, also one side of a similar stage in a second large 
tent, while a few appeared here and there in the miscellaneous groups 
arranged round the sides of the tents. To give anything like a complete 
enumeration would be obviously impossible in the space at command, and 
we must content ourselves with pointing out the principal features of the 
various groups exhibited. So far as the commoner popular species are 
concerned one might say that they were well represented in almost every 
§roup, especially Lelia purpurata, Miltonia vexillaria, and some of the 
commoner Cattleyas and Odontoglossums, and many exceptionally brilliant 
varieties were exhibited. 
Baron Sir Henry Schréder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. H. Ballantine), 
Staged a marvellous and tastefully arranged group, the plants in the most 
robust health, and the flowers of exceptional size and beauty, for which a 
Silver Cup was awarded. Odontoglossums were there in profusion, and 
included many superb varieties of O. crispum, including apiatum, San- 
derianum, and xanthotes, and a superb white form in which the lateral 
Sepals were united in nearly every flower of the raceme, giving it a very 
distinct appearance. Among superb forms of O. Pescatorei, a large pure 
white variety was conspicuous, superb forms of O. Hallii, O. cirrhosum, O. 
triumphans, the pretty little O. Cierstedii, and others, also a beautiful 
Series of natural hybrids, including O. x elegans, O. x aspersum, and 
Several forms of O. x excellens, O. x Andersonianum, and O. x Ruckeria- 
hum. Among Cattleyas were many fine plants of C. Mossiz, the beautiful 
variety Reineckiana, a gigantic plant of C. Skinneri, with sixteen racemes, 
C. Mendeli, C. Lawrenceana, C. citrina, C. Warscewiczii, C. Schroedere, 
and its variety alba, superb forms of Lelia purpurata, the snow-white 
Sobralia macrantha Kienastiana, Vanda teres, the beautiful Dendrobium 
Dearei, many handsome forms of Miltonia vexillaria, Selenipedium caudatum, 
Several brilliant Masdevallias, including M. x Gairiana, M. Veitchiana, a 
