Cxii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Prizes. 



Prizes were awarded for a collection of Herbaceous Paeonies, 

 grown in the open ; not more than three blooms of a sort. 

 Open to amateurs. First Prize, Silver Challenge Cup, to Rev. W. 

 Wilks, Shirley Vicarage, Croydon. Second Prize, £1, to Lord 

 Wimborne, Canford Manor, Wimborne, Dorset. 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



Hakby J.Veitch, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair, and seven members 



present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper Holloway, N., for 

 a group of Cypripediums, Cattleyas, Anguloas, Thunias, &c, 

 and good varieties of Oncidium macranthum. 



First Class Certificate. 



To Odontoglossum crispum guttatum, Burford variety (votes, 

 unanimous), from Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P. (grower, 

 Mr. W. White). A very fine and heavily blotched variety. 



To Lnslia Gottoiana x (votes, unanimous), from E. Gotto, 

 Esq., J. P., The Logs, Hampstead Heath (gardener, Mr. 

 T. Banks). A remarkably fine supposed natural hybrid of 

 L. grandis, with which it was imported. The flowers were of 

 the uniform rosy lilac, with darker lines on the lip, as seen in 

 L. Boothiana, but in shape similar to Laslia purpurata. 



To Lgelia grandis, Tring Park variety (votes, unanimous), 

 from the Bight Hon. Lord Bothschild, Tring Park, Tring 

 (gardener, Mr. E. Hill). This is the showiest form of true 

 Laalia grandis which has yet appeared. Its flowers are larger 

 than in the type, but the chief peculiarity is its broad, flat petals, 

 which do not reflex as in the ordinary form. 



To Dendrobium Phalamopsis Statterianum (votes, unani- 

 mous), from Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper Holloway. This 

 is the dark, smaller-flowered form which is now much commoner 

 than that originally imported. 



Award of Merit. 

 To Lacuna bicolor (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. F„ 



