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white, with a pale yellow stain in the throat of the labellurn 

 and a slight carmine mark on its front lobe. 



Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton, staged a supposed 

 natural hybrid Cattleya, with flesh-coloured flowers spotted 

 with crimson, and crimson front lobe to the labellurn. It was 

 stated to be known as C. intermedia punctatissima. 



G. K. le Doux, Esq., Langton House, East Molesey (gar- 

 dener, Mr. H. Chapman), exhibited Miltonia vexillaria albo-mar- 

 ginata and the curious little M. v. leucoglossa Keich. x , which 

 the Committee desired to see again. 



Thomas Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester 

 (gardener, Mr. Johnson), sent Odontoglossum luteo-purpureum ; 

 also a form of Cattleya Mossia?, and a flower of Cypripedium 

 Curtisii. 



J. W. Field, Esq., Southsea House, Dorking, exhibited a well- 

 flowered form of spotted Odontoglossum crispum. 



FRUIT COMMITTEE. 



P. Crowley, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair, and sixteen members 



present. 



Awards Recommended: — 



Bronze Banhsian Medal. 

 To the Marquis of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Herts (gardener, 

 Mr. G. Norman), for fifty wonderfully fine well-coloured fruits of 

 Strawberry Sir Charles Napier. 



Awayd of Merit. 

 To Melon Wythes' Seedling (votes unanimous), from the 

 Duke of Northumberland, Syon House, Brentford (gardener, Mr. 

 G. Wythes). Well-flavoured, white flesh. 



Cultural Commendation. 



To Messrs. de Eothschild, Gurmersbury House, Acton 

 (gardener, Mr. J. Hudson), for twelve extremely fine fruits of 

 Nectarine Lord Napier, stated to be from a crop of twenty-four 

 dozen gathered from a tree planted in 1878, which now occupies 

 a space 24 feet by 12 feet. 



To the Duke of Northumberland, for a dish of large Brown 

 Turkey Figs. 



To W. H. Long, Esq., M.P., Bood Ashton Park, Trowbridge 



