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segments and the beauty of its lip, rayed with purple lines and bordered 
with yellow. A magnificent form of Lelio-cattleya x elegans Turneri, 
well-flowered examples of Cypripedium Rothschildianum and C. Elliotti- 
anum, and a fine Cattleya Loddigesii with long petals and a white lip, are 
also noteworthy. Here also may be seen the rare Coelogyne Thuniana, 
Epidendrum prismatocarpum, with twelve racemes, Vanda _ tricolor 
Imschootiana, the rare Brownleea coerulea, and Epidendrum vitellinum, 
with seventeen of its brilliant flowers. 
Mm. Edm. Vervaet et Cie have two beautiful forms of Lelio-cattleya x 
elegans Turneri, one with salmon-coloured segments, the other of a brighter 
tint, with nine flowers borne on an enormous pseudobulb of over a yard 
high, with equally well-developed leaves. A Cypripedium Stonei is also 
remarkable for the length of the tube of the lip and the small dimensions of 
the slipper-shaped front lobe. 
ORCHIDS AT {THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
By JOHN WEATHERS, 
A WAVE of modesty must have passed over a great many Orchid growers 
on the occasion of the large Fruit and Flower Show, held in the Agricultural 
Hall, Islington, from August 29th to September Ist, as there were com- 
paratively few who put in an appearance. 
Norman C. Cookson, Esq., F.R.H.S., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. 
Mr. Murray), received an Award of Merit for Cypripedium Sandero- 
superbiens, a fine large hybrid, somewhat resembling C. x Morganie, 
which had been raised from seed presented by Capt. Vipan. C.Sanderianum 
was the seed parent. 
The Hon. Mrs. Foley, F.R.H.S., Packham, Fordingbridge (gr. Mr. 
Moxham), sent a deeply coloured Cattleya Leopoldi, Pernambuco variety. 
Major Joicey, Sunningdale Park (gr. Mr. Thorne), exhibited a Cypripedium 
seedling, raised from C, barbatum @ and C, x selligerum 2, a bold dark 
hybrid with large lip and heavily blotched petals ; also a good form of 
Cattleya Alexandre. : 
An Award of Merit was again given to Cypripedium x Edwardii (C. 
superbiens 2 x C. Fairieanum 2), which was this time shown by Thos, 
Statter, Esq., F.R.H.S., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester (gr Mr. 
Johnson). The same hybrid was shown on July 25th by Messrs. Pitcher 
and Manda, and received a similar award. aS 
Messrs. W. L. Lewis and Co., Chase Side, Southgate, N., exhibited a 
pretty group, and obtained a Silver Banksian Medal. Chiefly noteworthy 
