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Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, were awarded a Silver Flora Medal 
for a fine group, containing many Cypripediums, Lelio-cattleya x 
Atalanta, L.-c. xX Canhamiana, L.-c. xX Duchesnei, L.-c. xX Herga 
(L.-c. X elegans X C. Gaskelliana), Pachystoma Thompsoniana, and some 
‘Odontoglossum crispum. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, also gained a Silver Flora 
Medal for a fine and well-arranged group, containing Oncidium incurvum, 
‘O. microchilum, a well-flowered O. carthaginense, Cattleya Gaskelliana 
alba, C. Dowiana aurea, Miltonia Regnellii, Dendrobium formosum, Cypri- 
pedium X Frau Ida Brandt, C. x Madame Georges Truffaut, C. x Olivia, 
C. Lawrenceanum Hyeanum, and a form of Bulbophyllum Lobbii. 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, exhibited two distinct forms of 
‘Cattleya X Pittiana, one having the sepals and petals bronzy rose, and the 
other yellow, the lip in each case being veined with rose-purple; Lzelio- 
‘cattleya X Eunomia, L.-c. X Haroldiana, and others. 
A MEETING of the Orchid Committee was held at the Society’s 
gardens at Chiswick on September 29th, in connection with the great 
Show of British-grown Fruit and Vegetables on that and the two 
following days, when, according to the Committee’s report, the following 
six Orchids were submitted for adjudication, but they were not subse- 
quently exhibited to the public, and the only Orchids observed were two 
good examples of Cattleya Gaskelliana alba and a few other showy things, 
used to embellish a collection of fruit exhibited by Messrs. Hugh Low & 
Co., of Bush Hill Park. None of the six plants received any award. 
N. C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. Chapman), 
sent Cypripedium X Nandii, and Cattleya x Lord Rothschild, Oakwood 
variety (Gaskelliana X Dowiana aurea), said to differ from the original 
in having much broader petals and rich yellow sides to the lip. 
Henry Little, Esq., Baronshalt, East Twickenham (gr. Mr. Howard), 
sent Cattleya x Hardyana, Baronshalt variety, and C. X Wendlandii, 
Little’s variety (Bowringiana X Warscewiczii), bearing a spike of four 
flowers, with rich rosy-purple sepals and petals and a maroon-purple lip. 
W. P. Burkinshaw, Esq., Hessle, Hull (gr. Mr. Barker), sent Cattleya 
Hardyana, Hessle variety, a handsome form with purplish rose sepals and 
petals, and a rich crimson lip, having golden lines and two yellow patches 
on the sides of the lip. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Westfield Road, Putney (gr. Mr. Chown), sent 
‘Cypripedium x H. S. Goodson (Swinburnei X T. B. Haywood), most like the 
former in colour. The upper sepal was greenish with dark lines, the petals 
tinged with rose on the outer halves, and spotted with brown below, and 
the lip whitish, tinged with brown rose. 
