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ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



January 15, 1867. — Owing to the severity of the weather very 

 few plants were shown. Messrs. Backhouse and Son, of York, 

 sent cut examples of an Oncidium allied to O. serratum, with 

 large brownish-green flowers of unusual construction, especially 

 as regards the lip, which is small and unattractive ; Messrs E. Gr. 

 Henderson furnished Soplironitis grandiflora, and a variety of it 

 with rosy-crimson flowers, called Alexandrina • and from Mr. 

 Mann, of Brentwood, came a promising zonale Pelargonium 

 named Mimas, of a soft pleasing shade of rosy scarlet, which had 

 received a Second-class Certificate in September last, and was 

 reproduced to show that very small plants of it flower freely, even 

 in midwinter. 



February 19. — This was a very full meeting, and many subjects 

 of great interest were shown. The most noticeable feature was 

 the display of Lycaste Skinneri, sent as a mournful tribute to the 

 memory of the late Gr. W. Skinner, Esq. These were exhibited 

 by Messrs Yeitch and Sons, Mr Penny, gardener to H. Gribbs, 

 Esq., St. Dunstans, Regent's Park, Mr. Anderson, gardener to 

 T. Dawson, Esq., Meadow Bank, Dr. Pattison, and others. Mr. 

 Anderson and Mr. Penny sent some remarkably fine varieties. 

 Mr. "Wilson, gardener to "W. Marshall, Esq., of Enfield, contri- 

 buted one of the finest series of Catleya Warscewiczii ever seen 

 in public, and seeming to afford evidence that the plants fre- 

 quently designated G. pallida, Triancei, quadricolor, Wagneri, and 

 Warsceioiczii are all one and the same kind, varying somewhat in 

 colour. Mr. Anderson contributed, besides the Lycastes, a fine 

 group of cut Orchids, among which were Oncidium nubigenum, a 

 not very showy kind, but which grows at a higher elevation than 

 any other Oncid, nearly 14,000 feet above the sea, JBatemannia 

 Beaumontii, Warrtea discolor, Vandagigantea, LccMa superbiens, and 

 JSpidendrum Cooperianum, an erect -stemmed plant, with fragrant 

 rosy-tipped flowers. W. W. Buller, Esq., showed a good specimen 

 of Dendrobium speciosum, and also a small plant of the new Den- 

 drobium Bullerianum, which has some resemblance in form and 

 colour to JD. Devoniantm, but is without the fringes which im- 

 part so much additional beauty to the lip of that species. Messrs. 

 Low and Co., of Clapton, sent Lcelia furfuracea in great beauty, 

 and a group of the interesting Odontoglossum onaculatum, whose 

 brown-sepalled yellow-lipped flowers, spotted with brownish red, 

 are rather deficient in brilliancy. One of them, however, called 

 superbum, with large flowers, and having the lip notched at the edge 



