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Miltonia vexillaria, including the  richly-coloured Empress Augusta 
Victoria, chelseiensis with six spikes, Cobbiana, the white-lipped virginalis, 
&c., and on either side of these, clusters of the white and green Cypripedium 
Lawrenceanum Hyeanum, C. X Maudie, and C. callosum Sander, the 
latter including as many as fifty flowers. The coloured forms of C. 
Lawrenceanum were also very fine, and a cluster of C. niveum near the 
front was very effective. The Odontoglossums were numerous and good, 
and included O. X ardentissimum Shrubbery var., a very heavily blotched 
form, some excellent O. crispum, white and coloured, a very fine O. xX 
Andersonianum, the beautiful yellow O. luteopurpureum Vuylstekeanum, a 
hybrid from O. cirrhosum xX ardentissimum, bearing a large panicle of 
richly-coloured flowers, &c. Other fine things were a lot of showy 
Cattleyas, including a noble specimen of C. Skinneri, C. S. alba, C. citrina, 
two well-flowered Cymbidium Devonianum, C. Lowianum concolor, some 
brilliant Cochlioda Noetzliana, fine examples of Oncidium Marshallianum, 
Cypripedium. X Honnorize (Druryi xX Godefroy), and numerous other 
showy things. 
Major G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), exhibited a magnificent group of finely-grown plants, and 
arranged in the most effective manner, to which the Society’s Gold Meda] 
was awarded. A special feature of the group was the remarkable series of 
Miltonia vexillaria, including the beautiful variety virginale, with ten 
spikes and 41 flowers, two fine Empress Augusta Victoria, with 61 and 47 
flowers, the richly-blotched Westonbirt var. with two spikes and ten flowers, 
Cobbiana with six spikes and 2g fine flowers, marmorata with three spikes 
and seventeen flowers, Alfred with five spikes and 27 flowers, Mrs. H. 
Ballantine, a beautiful white form, Constance Wigan, with blush-pink 
sepals and petals and a white lip, and superba, the latter a noble specimen 
bearing 28 spikes and 138 flowers, to which a Cultural Commendation was 
given. The Odontoglossums were also excellent, one magnificent plant of 
O. crispum bearing nine spikes and 124 flowers, and another four spikes 
and 73 blooms. The exquisitely shaped O.c. Madonna bore three spikes 
and 48 blooms, and the group contained over 100 spikes of this species 
with about 1,300 blooms. The Cattleyas were very fine, and included a 
dozen plants of the beautiful C. X Dusseldorfii var. Undine with over fifty 
of its chaste white flowers, two well bloomed plants of C. Mossiz 
Reineckeana, C. M. Wageneri, C. M. Westonbirt var., with 22 flowers, C. 
Skinneri alba, C. Warneri, some good C. Mendelii, C. Schilleriana, &c. 
Brassocattleya was represented by half-a-dozen fine things, the handsome 
B.-c. Digbyano-Mossie, Westonbirt var., bearing eight blooms, while 
Lzlio-cattleyas were numerous, including L.-c. Canhamiana Rex with 
twelve blooms, L.-c. Lustre magnifica, L.-c. Fascinator with thirteen 
