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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. R. Dean, Ealing, sent a plant of Boscawen's double 

 yellow Primrose. This the Committee desired to see again 

 next year. 



R. I. Measures, Esq., Camberwell, sent cut flowers of Pelar- 

 gonium Miss F. Measures, pure white. The Committee expressed 

 a desire to see plants in flower. 



The Duke of Northumberland, Syon House, Brentford 

 (gardener, Mr. G. Wythes), sent some well-berried Pernettyas. 



Mrs. Grinling, Harrow Weald House, Stanmore (gardener, 

 Mr. Seabright), sent a well-flowered plant of Ochna multiflora. 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



T. B. Haywood, Esq., in the Chair, and fifteen members present. 

 Awards Recommended 



First-class Certificate. 



To Odontoglossum triumphans aureum, from A. H. Smee, 

 Esq., The Grange, Wallington (gardener, Mr. Cummins). This 

 variation from the type has pale yellow markings in place of 

 chestnut-brown. It is the first appearance of this variation in 

 0. triumphans, and it bears the same relation to that species 

 that the yellow 0. luteo-purpureum sceptrum known as 0. Mase- 

 reelianum bears to its species. 



To Cattleya Lawrenceana Vinckii, from Baron H. Schroder, 

 The Dell, Staines (gardener, Mr. H. Ballantine). This fine 

 variety has the flowers tinged with pale blue or bluish slate colour. 

 It is a very novel colour in Orchids. The plant had two spikes, 

 one of three and the other of four flowers. 



Awards of Merit. 



To Miltonia vexillaria le Doux variety, from G. le Doux, Esq., 

 East Moulsey, Surrey. A variety with very large flowers, the 

 labellum white, and the sepals and petals tinged with rose colour. 



To Odontoglossum Pescatorei, Mrs. G. W. Palmer, from 

 G. W. Palmer, Esq., Elmhurst, Reading (gardener, Mr. B. 

 Dockerill). The flowers were of good size, pure white, with 

 purple spotting on the halves of the sepals and petals near the 

 centre of the flower, the character of the marking resembling 

 that of 0. hebraicum. 



All the above awards were by unanimous vote. 



