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We noted a very fine O. x Wilckeanum, the panicle bearing five side 
branches and over forty flowers, good examples of O. x excellens and O. x 
spectabile, O. crispum Diadem and Minoru, two prettily blotched forms, 
Cymbidium Lowianum, three good examples of the charming Odontioda 
chelseiensis, Maxillaria Sanderiana, a good Dendrobium Wardianum, 
Cypripedium x Richmanii, and other good things. 
Messrs. James Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham, received a Silver Flora 
Medal for a good group, containing a fine series of Miltonia vexillaria, 
Cattleyas, Lelia purpurata, Odontoglossum crispum, &c. We noted the 
charming O. crispum xanthotes, O. x Wilckeanum rubens, a well-coloured 
form, a pretty hybrid between O. cirrhosum and O. Xx ardentissimum, a 
good O. X percultum, the graceful Coelogyne Dayana, Maxillaria Sander- 
iana, the handsome Oncidium Lanceanum, O. Marshallianum, Brasso- 
cattleya Maroni, Vanda teres, Masdevallia X Courtauldiana, x bocking- 
ensis, and X Measuresiana, the charming Miltonia X Bleuana, Dendrobium 
xX polyphlebium, D. clavatum, Cattleya Dusseldorfii Undine, &c. 
Messrs. Stanley & Co., Southgate, received a Silver Banksian Medal for 
a small group, containing some beautiful forms of Cattleya Mossiz, includ- 
ing the white varieties Reineckeana, vestalis and Wageneri, some good 
Odontoglossum crispum and others, the rare Oncidium pulchellum, a 
beautiful white form of Lelia purpurata called The Queen, and others. 
M. Ch. Vuylsteke, Loochristi, Ghent, sent a few very handsome hybrid ~ 
Odontoglossums, three of which gained First-class Certificates, namely, O. 
x mirum Emperor of India (Wilckeanum X crispum), a large and hand- 
some form, of excellent shape and substance, and very heavily blotched 
with brownish purple on a white ground, O. X Aglaon (Vuylstekee x 
crispum), a fine thing most like the former in general character, but the 
ground colour white, crowded with orange-brown blotches, and the lip 
broad, white, and blotched with chestnut-red, and O. X Princess Victoria 
(of unknown parentage), a handsome deep claret-red flower, with well- 
defined white margin. The group also contained a fine form of O. x 
eximium, and several other handsomely-blotched forms. 
Mr. J. Birchenall, Alderley Edge, staged a small group, including four 
plants of Cattleya Mendelii, one of which, having very little yellow in the 
throat of the lip, is said to have been found with C. gigas, a plant of the 
rare Uropedium Lindenii, Odontoglossum x Adriane, and a few others. 
Botanical Certificates were given to Oncidium Retemeyerianum, a rare 
Brazilian species with a dark purple, beetle-like lip, and to Sigmatostalix 
Eliz (Rolfe), a very pretty little plant, bearing a long raceme of yellow 
flowers, spotted with red on the lip. 
Mr. J. Robson, Altrincham, staged a small group of handsome things, 
including a very pretty Odontioda raised from C, Neetzliana and O. x 
