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-Leliocattleyas, and for the propagation of back bulbs of the finest varieties. 
One small house at the end of the corridor was filled with varieties of white 
Lelia anceps, looking remarkably healthy. On the north side of the 
corridor is a house filled wlth Cymbidiums, Odontoglossum grande, 
Oncidiums, &c., used for cutting purposes. 
I must not forget to mention the remarkably fine series of paintings, 
which must amount to several hundreds in number, each of which is 
represented by one or more plants in the collection. 
Mr. Leemann’s Orchid grower, Mr. Sydney Smith, is very skilful at his 
work, modest and unassuming. and he takes a deep personal interest in the 
welfare of the valuable plants under his care. It must be a great source of 
gratification and pleasure to both master and man to see the results 
achieved, the one sparing neither money nor expense, the other devoting all 
his skill and care to their well-being. H. THorp. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyaL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING of this Society was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on August 3rd, the day after Bank Holiday, 
when the exhibits were not numerous, but included a number of interesting 
things, and among them was the new Dendrobium Sanderz, to which a 
First-class Certificate was awarded. Other awards were two medals, 
one Award. of Merit, one Botanical Certificate, and one Cultural 
Commendation. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), 
staged a very interesting little group, including a good plant of Cycnoches 
chlorochilon with a spike of six flowers, Catasetum tabulare, a fine 
Bulbophyllum grandiflorum, the singular little B. lemniscatoides, Cirrho- 
petalum picturatum, Cryptophoranthus Dayanus, Masdevallia infracta, 
Odontioda Bradshawiz, Cattleya. Gaskelliana ccerulescens, Lelia X 
gattonensis (anceps ™X cinnabrosa), a good plant of Ancistrochilus 
Thomsonianus with seven spikes, and a good example of the citron yellow 
Sobralia x Colmanii (xantholeuca X Veitchii) in the centre. A Botanical 
Certificate was given to the rare Phaius pauciflorus, a very distinct species, 
characterised by having flowers borne in axillary pairs on the stem, and 
white in colour, with some purple stripes on the lip. 
The Hon. Mrs, Foley, Packham, Fordingbridge, Hants (gr. Mr. 
Newman), exhibited an excellent specimen of Angraecum caudatum with 
four long spikes, each bearing from ten to twelve greenish buff flowers 
with very long twisted spurs. A Cultural Commendation was awarded. {2 
W. Waters Butler, Esq., Southfield, Norfolk Road, Edgbaston, received 3 
an Award of Merit for Cattleya Warscewiczii var. W. Waters Butler, a 
