EXTRACTS TROM PROCEEDINGS 
or THE 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 
AND 
MISCELLANEOUS MATTER. 
ELORAL COMMITTEE. 
Eeb. 16, 1870. 
A Eirst-class Certificate was awarded to Oncidium sjjlendidum, 
which formed one of the numerous objects of attraction which 
Lord Londesborough had sent down, at a great expense, in a van 
made expressly for the purpose and heated with hot water. 
Messrs. Yeitch sent also a fine group of Orchids, and obtained the 
prize for Li/castes, amongst which was a pure white variety of 
L. Skinneri, which was much admired. Vanda ccerulescens was 
the gem of the collection, though probably exhibiting, on a small 
scale only,' an extremely promising species. A Special Certificate 
was awarded to Caitleya Triance, var. Laurenceana, from the ex- 
Bishop of Winchester, remarkable for the intense rosy purple of 
the frontal portion of the richly fringed lip. Messrs. Smith, of 
Dulwich, obtained the Prize for Primulas. A Second-class Cer- 
tificate was awarded to a hybrid Lihonia, from the Hon. W. O. 
Stanley, being a cross between L. floribunda and a variety of L. 
sericograpliis, Mr. Waterer sent a variety of Gupressus Laivso- 
niana, with the habit of the Florence Court Yew, and a bushy 
variety with slightly pendulous branches, to both of which a Eirst- 
class Certificate was awarded. 
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