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while Cypripediums — both species and hybrids — Masdevallias, 

 Dendrobes, &c, formed altogether a most attractive group. 



The display of Orchids from the gardens of the President of 

 the Society, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., were next those 

 of Baron Schroder,, and rivalled them in excellence. Among 

 the better known kinds shown were the curious Bulbophyllum 

 barbigerum, with its small but exquisitely beautiful flowers, with 

 the labella or lips so sensitive that the faintest breath of air is 

 sufficient to cause a great commotion among them. Cypripe- 

 diums, Dendrobiums, Cattleyas, Laalias, Masdevallias, Thunias, 

 and Odontoglossums were in abundance, and bore the signs 

 of good culture, while the " Bird's-nest Orchid," Neottia nidus- 

 avis, attracted much attention. 



H. M. Pollett, Esq., of Bickley, exhibited the rare Odonto- 

 glossum crispum Bickleyense, remarkable for its creamy- white 

 flowers heavily blotched with chestnut-brown ; 0. cirrhosum, 

 0. Coradinei, the dwarf 0. (Erstedii with forty pretty white 

 flowers, and that very remarkable Cypripedium Sanderianum, 

 with twisted petals over eighteen inches long, were also among 

 the group. 



T. B. Haywood, Esq., had a fine collection of Odonto- 

 glossums, intermixed with Maidenhair Ferns, and also several 

 highly coloured varieties of Masdevallia belonging to the 

 Harryana and ignea section. Cattleya gigas (also known as 

 C. Warscewiczii) had five large flowers of a deep rose-purple 

 colour on one spike, and formed a striking contrast to the beau- 

 tiful Odontoglossum Harryanum. 



Some of the best varieties of Cypripedium barbatum were 

 shown by the Duke of Northumberland's gardener, Mr. Wythes, 

 from Syon House, as well as some fine plants of Anthurium 

 Scherzerianum, with brilliant scarlet spathes. 



F. Wigan, Esq., of East Sheen, had some very fine Cattleya 

 Mendelii, as well as Vanda teres, a magnificent Phalaenopsis 

 grandiflora, Aerides Fieldingii, Cypripedium Dayanum, C. Cur- 

 tisii, and that beautiful " flower of May," Laelia majalis. 



Mrs. Studd, of Bath, exhibited a lavender-coloured Sobralia 

 macrantha, and a fine specimen of Dendrobium MacCarthiae. 



Among the trade exhibits were some grand displays. The 

 collection of Messrs. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, occupied a space 

 about forty feet long, and contained a specimen of almost every 



