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rose-purple, somewhat connivent sepals and petals, and a very rich ruby 
crimson lip of nearly uniform colour. A Cultural Commendation was given 
to a fine plant of Cattleya Gaskelliana alba Goodsone, bearing six spikes of 
bleom. 
Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), sent Cattleya x Tacitus (bicolor x Germania), having dusky 
purple sepals and petals, and a rich purple lip, with very small side lobes, 
and Lzeliocattleya Jason (L.-c. Massangeana X C. Dowiana aurea), having 
greenish yellow sepals and petals, and a rich crimson lip with a trace of 
yellow veining at the base of the throat. The latter gained an Award of Merit. 
G. F. Moore, Esq., Chardwar, Bourton-on-the-Water (gr. Mr. Page), 
sent Cypripedium X Fair Maude (Fairrieanum X Maudiz), most like the 
latter in shape and the former in colour, but with both characters modified 
in detail. 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, staged a large and handsome group, 
to which a Silver-gilt Flora Medal was awarded. It contained a number of 
good Brassocattleya Pluto, Leliocattleya Fourniere, La France, Doinii, 
and Pomeroye, with L.-c. Lady Crossley (L.-c. elegans X C, Harrisoniana), 
bearing neat lilac pink flowers, with some light purple stripes near the front 
of the slightly three-lobed lip, and a good series of the more familiar hand- 
some forms, Lelia x venustula (grandiflora Xx xanthina), having cream 
white sepals and petals, anda white three-lobed lip, tinged with lilac in 
front and striped with purple, half a dozen plants of the handsome 
Dendrobium regium, Odontoglossum x harvengtense cinnamomeum, a 
handsome form which opens yellow, changing to cream, and bears yellowish 
brown blotches, two distinct forms of Odontoglossum *& MacNabianum, 
the handsome O. X Rolfez Sander’s var., having large dark blotches and a 
very square lip, some good Cattleya Warscewiczii, the charming little 
Hemipilia amethystina (Rolfe), a Burmese plant with a pretty variegated 
leaf and a spike of purple flowers, Phaius flavus, Bulbophyllum barbigerum, 
Odontioda Bradshawiez and Vuylstekez, Gongora galeata, Cirrhea 
saccata, Rhynchostylis retusa, Cypripedium xX Ultor, a few C. Godefroyz 
leuchochilum, Vanda Parishii, V. tricolor, &c. Awards of Merit were 
given to Vanda ccerulea Dreadnought, a remarkably fine form, bearing a 
spike of ten large, dark blue and strongly tessellated flowers, and to Lelio- 
cattleya Invincible (Dominiana X bletchleyensis), a very fine hybrid, 
having bright purplish rose sepals and petals, and a deep ruby-claret lip. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, received a Silver Flora 
Medal for a choice group, containing some good Leeliocattleya callistoglossa, 
and other brilliant Lzliocattleyas, examples of Cattleya x Germania 
magnifica, X Venus, X Hardyana, x Vulcain, X lucida, a fine C. 
Gaskelliana alba, Masdevallia velifera, Mormodes luxatum punctatum, with 
