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(votes, unanimous), from C. J. Lucas, Esq., Warnham Court (gr. Mr. 

 Duncan). Flowers copper-coloured tinged with purple ; lip purple. 

 Award of Merit, March 8, 1898. 



Award of Merit. 



To Dendrobium x rubens grandifiorum (nobile nobilius x splendi- 

 dissimum grandifiorum) (votes, unanimous), from Sir Trevor Lawrence, 

 Bart. The best of its class. Flowers cream-white tinged with rose- 

 purple ; disc of lip dark crimson-purple. 



To Odontoglossum x Adrian^e ' Mrs. Robert Benson ' (votes, unani- 

 mous), from Captain Holford, Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. A. Chapman), 

 Flowers large ; petals broad ; cream-white edged with yellow and heavily 

 spotted with brown. (Fig. 143.) 



To Phaio-Calanthe x Schroderiana (P. Wallichii x C. x 'Baron 

 Schroder') (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Jas. Veitch. Sepals and 

 petals white tinged with lilac ; lip claret-purple. 



To Odontoglossum x Coradinei ' Mrs. de B. Crawshay ' (votes, 7 for, 

 3 against), from J. S. Moss, Esq., Wintershill, Bishop's Waltham. 

 Flowers yellow blotched with brown. 



Botanical Certificate. 



To Ccelogyne sulphurea, from F. W. Moore, Esq., V.M.H., Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. Flowers, profusely borne on short racemes, 

 taw^ny-yellow. 



Cultural Commendation. 



To Mr. E. Hill, gr. to the Right Hon. Lord Rothschild, Tring Park, 

 for Phalisnopsis Aphrodite, bearing a five-branched spike of twenty-four 

 fine flowers. 



To Mr. Beckett, gr. to the Right Hon. Lord Aldenham, for splendidly 

 flowered Coelogyne cristata. 



Other Exhibits. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild showed an inflorescence of Schomburgkia 

 undulata, ' Tring Park v ariety,' with a dense head of dark red-brown 

 flowers. 



J. S. Moss, Esq., showed a fine L^elia Jongheana. 

 J. T. Bennett-Poe, Esq. (gr. Mr. Downes), sent Cypripedium x 

 ' Gaetano.' 



J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (gr. Mr. Davis), showed Cypripedium x ' Miss 

 Louisa Fowler ' and Cochlioda Noezliana, * Glebelands variety.' 



C. L. N. Ingram, " Esq., Elstead House, Godalming (gr. Mr. T. \V. 

 Bond), showed Cattleya x ' Zephyra ' (Schrodene x aurea). 



E. de Q. Quincey, Esq. (gr. Mr. Lees), sent a hybrid Cypripedium. 



Mr. J. Weathers, Isleworth, showed as Phaius Warpuri the plant 

 previously named P. tuberculosus. 



Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart. (gr. Mr. W. H. Young), sent Phaius 

 simulans, Rolfe. 



Messrs. F. Sander showed a hybrid Zygopetalum and otlier Orchids. 



