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Cypripedium insigne excelsum, a fine form of good substance, approaching 
the Harefield Hall var. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, staged a very fine group, 
occupying nearly forty feet of staging, to which a Silver-gilt Flora Medal 
was awarded. Several handsome things were massed in quantity, the 
centre consisting chiefly of a fine lot of the brilliant Lelio-cattleya luminosa, 
while a number of excellent Vanda ccerulea and O. Forbesii were grouped 
at one end, with a fine lot of O. varicosum at the other. Cattleya x 
Mantinji nobilior was also used with great effect. We noted also some good 
white and coloured C. labiata, the fine C. x Alicia, Vanda Sanderiana, 
Brassocattleya Pluto, the beautiful white Brassocattleya Queen Alexandra, 
with some coloured forms, Cirrhopetalum ornatissimum and Fascinator, the 
brilliant Odontioda Charlesworthii, Miltonia xX Bluntii Lubbersiana, the 
pure white Ccelogyne Veitchii, with a graceful drooping raceme, Odonto- 
hii, a beautiful white form with some 
giossum crispum xanthotes Charleswort 
other Odontoglossums, 
orange-yellow markings, O. grande aureum, anda few 
Cymbidium longifolium, Cypripedium x Niobe, and various other fine 
things. A First-class Certificate was given to Vanda ccerulea Charles- 
worthii, a large and beautiful pure white variety, without the slightest trace 
of lilac anywhere, and an Award of Merit was given to Dendrobium 
Ccelogyne maximum, a remarkably large form, measuring eight inches from 
tip to tip of the sepals, their colour being yellow, striped with purple, and 
with the usual dark markings on the lip. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Enfield, received a Silver Flora Medal for a 
very beautiful group of about twenty feet long, containing a number of good 
coloured forms of Cattleya labiata, with the charming white forms alba, 
‘Gilmouriz, R. I. Measures’ var. reedleyensis, and others, C. Forbesii, 
Cc. x Mrs. J. W- Whiteley, the dark C. Bowringiana 
um album, Dendrobium formosum, 
the graceful 
C. Dowiana aurea, 
Low’s var., Oncidium ornithorynch 
Brassoleelia Digbyano-purpurata, Coelogyne ———- . 
Cycnoches peruvianum, with a second short inflowespen? fe) gees y 
female buds, Cypripedium Maudiz, C. X triumphans, C. x Leeanum 
giganteum, and other good things. 
Messrs. Gurney Wilson & Co., 
Merit for Brassocattleya Queen Alexan 
i i ; i i lip. 
beautiful white variety with a deeply fringed lip 
Messrs. Jas he & Son, Cheltenham, staged a good group, 
including Cattleya x Portia gigantea, a very large rose:purple hybrid ? 
excellent shape, Cypripedium % triumphans, C. xX. bingleyense, ©- 
i i d many others. 
Maudie, C. x Milo, Westonbirt var-, 20 : 
Mr. A. W Jensen Lindfield, Haywards Heath, sent about eight good 
i ike. 
Cattleya Dowiana aurea, one of them having @ four-flowered spike 
Haywards Heath, received an Award of 
dra, Glenthorne var., a large and 
