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Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Enfield, received a Silver Banksian Medal for 
a fine group, including some good Cattleya Percivaliana and Trianz, four 
plants of Lelia Gouldiana, Platyclinis glumacea, Odontoglossum blandum, 
O. Rossii, O. bictoniense, Arpophyllum spicatum, Cymbidium xX 
Wiganianum, Oncidium ornithorhynchum, Cypripedium X Swinburnei 
magnificum, C. X Thompsonianum, good varieties of C.  aureum, &c. 
Messrs. J. W. Moore, Ltd., Rawdon, Leeds, received a Silver Banksian 
Medal for a group of good things, including some fine forms of Cypripediam 
x aureum, C. X Ville de Paris, a very fine C. x Charlesianum, a hybrid 
between C. insigne and C. exul, called C. x Hecla II., a pretty hybrid 
between C. X Leeanum Albertianum and C. insigne Chantinii, Maxillare 
porphyrostele, Bulbophyllum comosum, Lycaste Skinneri, and some good 
Odontoglossums, a hybrid from O. X Wilckeanum xX ardentissimum, 
having one large red-purple blotch on each segment, being effective. 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, received a Silver Banksian 
Medal for a very choice group, containing a beautiful series of Cypripedium 
x Countess of Carnarvon, obtained by crossing C. villosum and C. X 
Euryades, and showing a wide range of variation, C. x Winnianum, C. X 
Lathamianum, C. x Miss Louise Fowler, the pretty Epidendrum Endresii, 
some good examples of the handsome Tricopilia suavis, Brassocattleya 
Orpheus, Neobenthamia gracilis, Odontoglossum Pescatorei, &c. 
Messrs. Linden, Brussels, sent three good seedling forms of Cypripe- 
dium insigne, and four handsome Odontoglossums. O. crispum Jean 
Linden is a handsomely-blotched seedling raised in the establishment, O. X 
exultans (crispum X excellens), a bright yellow flower blotched with 
red-brown, and O. xX Notteanum (loochristiense X Wilckeanum), a fine 
form having white flowers margined with yellow, and handsomely blotched. 
The other was apparently a form of O. xX Fascinator. 
At the meeting held on February 11th there was a brilliant display of 
Orchids, and the awards consisted of ten medals and four Awards of Merit. 
J. Bradshaw, Esq., The Grange, Southgate (gr. Mr. Whitelegg e), staged 
a very fine group, to which a Silver-gilt Medal was given. It contained 
some excellent forms of Cattleya Triane, C. T. The Premier and C, T. 
Mrs. de Barri Crawshay being two very richly-coloured forms. C. T. 
Diana is a delicate blush-pink form, and C. T. Esmeralda a beautiful white 
flower with the front of the lip light pink. There was also the chaste C. T. 
alba, with eight flowers, and other good white forms, a fine specimen of the 
brilliant Odontioda Bradshawie, some good hybrid Odontoglossums, 
Cymbidium grandiflorum, and other good Cymbidiums, with a very fine 
lot of Lycaste Skinneri. An Award of Merit was given to L. S. Orion, 
having broad blush-white sepals, rosy petals, and a pure white lip. | 
