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suavis, Miltonia Roezlii, some good hybrid Cypripediums, Epidendrum xX 
O’Brienianum superbum, Dendrobium crassinode, D. Wardianum, D. xX 
Wiganiz, D. X Cybele, several fine Dendrobium xX splendidissimum grandi- 
florum, D. xX Stratius, D. Hildebrandii albescens, and others; the brilliant 
Epiphronitis X Veitchii, and Cymbidium Xx eburneo-Lowianum, with their 
parents, also Epidendrum Endresii and E. Wallisii, with examples of the 
pretty hybrids derived from them. This feature of showing hybrids with the 
species from which they were derived was particularly interesting. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, staged a particularly 
interesting group, to which a Bronze Banksian Medal was given. It con- 
tained a batch of thirty plants of the handsome new Phaius xX Norman 
(Sanderianus @ X tuberculosis ¢), showing a considerable amount of 
variation. Three plants were selected for awards, Phaius X Norman and 
P. X N. roseus, each receiving a First-class Certificate, and P. X N. aureus 
an Award of Merit. With them were P. xX Cooksoni, Lzlia rubescens, 
Masdevallia x falcata, Lycaste gigantea, Oncidium spilopterum, some good 
Odontoglossum crispum, O. luteopurpureum, O. X Wilckeanum, O. 
cirrhosum, &c. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Enfield, sent Cattleya Triane Venus, a fine 
white form tinted with rose-pink in front of the yellow disc, and Odonto- 
glossum apterum (nebulosum) pardinum, an exceptionally fine form, to which 
an Award of Merit was given. 
Messrs. Fisher, Son, & Sibray, Handsworth, Sheffield, sent a_ fine 
Dendrobium Wardianum album. 
Mr. William Murray, The Gardens, Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, showed 
his patent Orchid-stands, designed to replace inverted pots for standing the 
plants on, and thus preventing the injurious fungoid growth, which some- 
times develops when the air is stagnant. 
At the meeting held on March 22nd Orchids were less numerous than 
usual but included several striking things. Present :—H. J. Veitch, Esq., 
in the chair, and Messrs. J. O’Brien (Hon. Sec.), E. Ashworth, H. 
Ballantine, T. W. Bond, H. J. Chapman, N. C. Cookson, S. Courtauld, 
De B. Crawshay, J. T. Gabriel, E. Hill, G. W. Law-Schofield, H. M. 
Pollett, W. H. Protheroe, F. J. Thorne, W. H. White, and W. H. Young. 
E. Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow (gr. Mr. Holbrook), sent 
a charming albino of Dendrobium nobile called D. n. Ashworthiannm, to 
which a First-class Certificate was given. It was much like D. n. virginale, 
figured at page 145 of our last volume, but the flowers not quite so large, 
and the sepals and petals rather more twisted, the latter character being 
somewhat anomalous in this species. An Award of Merit was given toa 
plant called Odontoglossum hybridum Ashworthianum, a very pretty thing 
but agreeing with that known as O. X aspersum violaceum. 
