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Atvard of Merit. 

 To Lycaste Skinneri Regina (votes, 10 for, 2 against), from 

 E. A. Roberts, Esq., Woodlands House, Greenliithe (gardener, 

 Mr. J. Simon). 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons staged the fine hybrid Cypripedium 

 Germinyanum x (C. villosum and C. hirsutissimum), C. Calypso 

 x , a new ally to C. Lathamianum x ; Phalamopsis "F. L. Ames" 

 x , and Dendrobium Wardiano-japonicum x , a neat variety, with 

 white flowers with dark red blotch on the lip. 



H. M. Pollett, Esq. (gardener, Mr. Parks), sent a fine Odonto- 

 glossmn crispum Bickleyense, with yellowish ground colour to 

 the flowers, spotted with brown ; also a distinct form of Cattleya 

 Irianae, in which the front lobe of the lip was coloured with a 

 decidedly blue tinge over the crimson body colour. 



F. G. Arbuthnot, Esq., Bridgen Place, Bexley, sent two hand- 

 some Odontoglossums and two white forms of Cattleya labiata 

 TrianaB for the Committee to name. The names affixed were 

 Odontoglossum Andersonianum, 0. Wilckeanum, Cattleya Trianae 

 virginalis, and for the other Cattleya, which was of fine shape 

 and substance, the Committee confirmed the Bridgen Place name, 

 C. Triana? Helleniana. 



Malcolm S. Cooke, Esq., Kingston Hill (gardener, Mr. Culli- 

 more), had a group of Orchids comprising Cattleya amethystoglossa, 

 with twenty-four flowers on a spike, Odontoglossum Humeanum, 

 0. Oerstedii, 0. blandum, Ansellia lutea, Dendrobiums, and Laelia 

 albicla var. 



W. Vanner, Esq., exhibited some good varieties of Cattleya 

 Trianae, and a fine plant of Lycaste Skinneri alba, Dendrobium 

 nobile Cooksoni, and Odontoglossums. 



A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, Hackbridge (gardener, Mr. 

 Cummins), contributed C. Trianaa Dayana, from the collection of 

 the late Mr. John Day. It has flowers of good size and fine colour. 



A. S. Smith, Esq., Silvermere, Cobham (gardener, Mr. J. 

 Quarterman), sent a noble plant of the old Cypripedium insigne, 

 with eighty- seven flowers. 



Lord Foley, Ruxley Lodge, Esher (gardener, Mr. Miller), sent 

 Ccelogyne cristata, and specimens of the same plant were for- 

 warded by Mr. Waltham, Streatham Hill, and Mr. 0. Thomas, 

 Chatsworth Gardens. 



