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THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



The flowers are borne in Ion- pendulous racemes, and are white with a 

 little buff colour on the spurs, which arc Ion-', slender and curved, as 

 well shown in the illustration. The plant was grown in a rather small 

 pan, filled with the usual compost, and suspended from the roof in the 

 Warm house. The plant produced a multitude of strong roots, and is 

 evidently very vigorous, as may be inferred from its having developed 

 three such fine racemes. It is worthy of a place in any collection where 

 Warm house Orchids are grown. 



SOCIETIES. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 



A meeting of this Society was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 

 Vincent Square, Westminster, on October iSth, when there was a 

 magnificent display of Orchids, and the awards consisted of one Gold 

 and eight other medals, two First-class Certificates, five Awards of Merit, 

 and three Botanical Certificates. (The previous meeting was a special 

 exhibition of fruit, and the Orchid Committee did not meet.) 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., Tring Park (gr. Mr. Dye), staged 

 a very interesting group, composed chiefly of Masdevallias and Restrepias, 

 to which a Silver Banksian Medal was given. Among the noteworthy 

 kinds were the remarkable M. ventricularia, M. Wendlandiana, M. muscosa, 

 the true M. melanoxantha, M. nidifica, together with various other species 

 and hybrids ; also the remarkable Phalsenopsis Lowii, Cattleya labiata, 

 C. X Minerva, L;elia-cattleya X Digbyano-Warscewiczii, and others. 

 Botanical Certificates were given to the rare Restrepia aspasicensia and 

 Ccelia macrostachya, an interesting Orchid which is noted on another 

 page. 



Leopold de Rothschild, Esq., Gunncrsbury Park, Acton (gr. Mr. 

 Reynolds), also received a Silver Banksian Medal for a beautiful group 

 of about sixty well-grown specimens of Cattleya labiata. A fine dark form 

 with ruby-coloured lip, and another having blush-white flowers with a slight 

 purple tracing on the lip, were particularly noteworthy. 



J. Bradshaw, Esq., The Grange, Southgate (gr. Mr. Whitelegge), also 

 received a Silver Banksian Medal for a beautiful group, containing a fine lot 

 of Cattleya X Mantinii and C. labiata, the richly-coloured C. 1. Brilliant 

 and C. 1. Lowise being specially good, C. X Mrs. J. W. Whiteley, Lycaste 

 Skinned alba, L. S. Fairy, Laelio-cattleya x Ingrami, L.-c. X Ascania, 

 Miltonia X Bleuana with thirty-three flowers, Oncidium X Mantinii 

 Bradshawiae, a handsomely marked variety, Cymbidium giganteum, &c. 



G. F. Moore, Esq., Chardwar, Bourton-on-the-Water (gr. Mr. Page), 

 received an Award of Merit for Cattleya X Portia Chardwar variety, a large 

 rose-purple form with dark claret throat. 



