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W. Stevens), sent a splendid spike of Cattleya Alexandra—certainly the 
best flowers of this species yet shown in public. 
Messrs. B. S. Williams and Son, Upper Holloway, N., exhibited Cypri- 
pedium X amandum (C. barbatum 2 x C. Lawrenceanum g) and C. x 
Cythera (C. Spicerianum $ x C. purpuratum 2) this day, and on the roth of 
October received a Silver Banksian Medal for a group, in which Dendrobium 
 superbiens—otherwise D. Goldiei—D. bigibbum, D. Phalenopsis, Pachy- 
stoma Thomsoniana, Miltonia Roezlii, Odontoglossum Harryanum, Coelogyne 
speciosa, Cypripedium x Adonis (C. x Harrisianum superbum 2 x C. 
Spicerianum magnificum f) were noteworthy. 
In*addition to those mentioned above were several other exhibitors on 
October roth. The President of the Society, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 
Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. W. H. White), exhibited a pan two feet in 
diameter containing several glowing plants of Habenaria militaris, for which 
a Silver Flora Medal was awarded. Cypripedium x Lawrebel, with two 
lower sepals, and C. x conco-Lawre, with two flowers fused together like 
Siamese twins, were also shown, and excited much comment from lovers of 
the curious. 
The Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew (W. T. Thiselton Dyer, Esq., 
C.M.G., F.R.S.), sent a new hybrid Disa named “The Premier,” of which 
D. x Veitchii 2 x DL. tripetaloides ¢ are the parents. The flowers, of 
Which five were fully expanded, are of a good size, and of a deep purple rose 
incolour. A First-class Certificate was awarded to the plant. 
J. Forster Alcock, Esq., F.R.HS., Northchurch, Great Berkhamstead, 
exhibited a good variety of Odontoglossum grande, Cattleya labiata and 
Cattleya bicolor, the purple lip of which latter had a very conspicuous 
white margin. 
An Award of Merit was given to Odontogloss 
4 form with a white lip and mottled greenish yellow sepals and petals, 
shown by Major-General Berkeley, F.R.H.S., Bitterne, near Southampton. 
A form of Lycaste Skinneri was sent by w. C. Clark, Esq., F.R.H.S., 
Orleans House, Sefton Park, Liverpool. - 
P. Hardy, Esq., Tynterfield, Ashton-on-Mersey (gt- ar T. Stafford), 
exhibited flowers of a large and deeply coloured Lzlia pumila preestans. 
A. J. Hollington, Esq., F-R.H.S., Forty Hill, Enfield (er- Mr. Ayling), 
exhibited a hybrid Cattleya very much like, if not identical with, C. x 2 - 
‘oniana, exhibited by Messrs. Lewis and Co. on September 26th, an¢é a 
um Uroskinneri album, 
Brussels, received a 
M i , i -e Internationale, 
essrs. Linden, L’Horticulture inter sea loya Hldocado 
Silver Flora Medal for an excellent group, out of whic ce 
indeni, C, Warocqueana fascinator, Cypripedium x ee a 
and Leelia elegans Luciani, each received an Award ot ett In ee ae 
may be mentioned a superb plant of Cypripedium Rothschild 
