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Lieut.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), received a First-class Certificate for Lzelio-cattleya Clive 
magnifica (L. prestans X C. Dowiana aurea), a remarkably large and 
brilliantly coloured form ; an Award of Merit for Odontoglossum x Eleanor, 
Westonbirt var. (cirrhosum X Uroskinneri), bearing a panicle of about 
thirty flowers, with yellowish-white sepals and petals, closely spotted with 
dark brown, and the lip white with purple spots; and a Cultural Com- 
mendation for O. X Othello, Westonbirt var., bearing two magnificent 
spikes of very richly coloured flowers. He also sent Sophrocatlelia Danze 
(Sophrolelia leta Orpetiana xX Cattleya Harrisoniana), a handsome dwarf 
hybrid, having bright rose-purple sepals and petals, and a yellow throat to 
the lip, with some light purple in front, and an intervening whitish area. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., West Hill, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), received a 
First-class Certificate for Odontoglossum xX illustre King of England, 
bearing a spike of eleven fine flowers, very heavily blotched with violet- 
purple on the sepals and petals, and with darker chocolate purple on the 
lip. He also sent O. Pescatorei Sidneyanum, a large white flower hand- 
somely blotched with purple on the lip, and a good Cattleya x F. W. 
Wigan. 
Walter Cobb, Esq., Rusper (gr. Mr. Salter), sent Odontoglossum X 
formosum, Cobb’s var., having white flowers heavily blotched with violet. 
F. M. Ogilvie, Esq., The Shrubbery, Oxford (gr. Mr. Balmforth), sent 
the fine, nearly white Miltonia vexillaria Queen Alexandra, and M. v. 
Shrubbery var., a large rosy form with darker radiating lines on the lip. 
W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens), sent 
Odontioda Charlesworthii, bearing two very fine ruby-crimson flowers, with 
a deep yellow crest to the lip. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Heaton, Bradford, staged a magnificent 
group, very rich in detail, and very effectively arranged, to which a Gold 
Medal was awarded. It included a very fine series of Lzlio-cattleya Can- 
hamiana, Fascinator, Aphrodite, callistoglossa, and others, with a dark 
L.-c. Bertha Fournier, and the rich orange yellow L.-c. Golden Oriole, 
many fine Cattleyas, including a good example of C. Mossize Wageneri with 
a dozen flowers, two plants of the rare C. Warneri alba, C. Mendelii Queen 
of Spain, C. luteola, &c., with a beautiful series of Odontoglossum crispum, 
X Rolfez, xX Othello, and others, among the more noteworthy being O. 
X armainvillierense xanthotes (Pescatorei album X crispum xanthotes), all 
the seedlings of which have been white with yellow markings. There were 
also good examples of Odontioda Lutetia, O. heatonensis and O. Charles- 
worthii, several fine flowers of Stanhopea tigrina arranged on a bank of 
moss, a good Sobralia xantholeuca, Phalznopsis violacea, Trichopilia 
Backhouseana, Miltonia x Hyeana, with two good spikes, Lycaste Skin- 
