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specimen of Odontoglossum grande bearing twenty-five flowers, to which a 
Cultural Commendation was given. 
W. A. Bilney, Esq., Fir Grange, Weybridge (gr. Mr. Whitlock), showed 
two finely flowered plants of Lelia pumila, which also received a Cultural 
Commendation. 
Walter Cobb, Esq., Dulcote, Tunbridge Wells (gr. Mr. Howes), sent a 
hybrid Cypripedium with dark flowers, approaching those of C. xX 
Harrisianum superbum, and a noble specimen of Vanda Sanderiana bear- 
ing five spikes and an aggregate of fifty-one flowers and buds. A Cultural 
Commendation was awarded to the latter. 
F. W. Moore, Esq., Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, sent the rare 
Zygopetalum Gibeziz and Maxillaria longissima, a Botanical Certificate 
being awarded to the latter. 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Royal Exotic Nurseries, Chelsea, staged 
a very choice group, including the handsome Dendrobium xX rhodostoma, 
which received an Award of Merit, good examples of Lzlio-cattleya X Nysa 
and L.-c. X callistoglossa ignescens, also L.-c. X Dominiana langleyensis 
(Lzlia purpuruta 2 X Cattleya Dowiana 3), a superb hybrid to which a. 
First-class Certificate was given. This is a reproduction of one of Messrs. 
Veitch’s earliest and best hybrids, and attracted much attention. The sepals 
and petals are pale pink, the latter being delicately veined with purple, and 
the lip rich claret-purple, margined with lavender and veined with yellow 
at the base. 
Messrs. G. Paul & Son, The Old Nurseries, Cheshunt, exhibited a fine 
group of Masdevallia tovarensis thickly covered with its charming, pure 
white flowers, and some good Cypripedium Spicerianum. The former had 
been grown in a cold frame all the summer, shaded with wood lath blinds. 
The pots are enclosed within an outer pot, the latter standing in water, and 
the treatment is very successful. A Silver Banksian Medal was awarded to 
the group. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, Enfield, were awarded a 
Bronze Banksian Medal for a very pretty group, containing the fine 
Cymbidium Traceyanum, Dendrobium xX Leeanum, D. Lowii, Vanda 
ceerulea. Lzlio-cattleya x Schilleriana, Cycnoches chlorochilon, Odonto- 
glossum grande, O. cariniferum, Cattleya superba splendens, C. Bowringiana, 
Oncidium ornithorhynchum album, Cypripidium X Sallieri Hyeanum, &c. 
Messrs. Charlesworth and Co., Heaton, Bradford, sent a three-flowered 
inflorescence of Sophrocattleya xX Cleopatra (S. grandiflora ¢ x C. Leopoldi 
3), a very pretty hybrid, to which an Award of Merit was given. The 
flowers are fairly intermediate in character, the sepals and petals being 
reddish, and the lip three-lobed, yellow at the base, with the front lobe and 
tips of the side lobes bright cherry-red. 
