CXXii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Prizes. 



Prizes were awarded in the following classes : — 



Class 1. — Eighteen bunches of Hardy Perennials (distinct). 

 Amateurs. First Prize, Silver Gilt Flora Medal and £2, to 

 0. T. Hodges, Esq., Lachine, Chislehurst. Second Prize, £1. 10s., 

 to Mr. G. H. Sage, Ham House, Eiclimond. 



Class 2. — Twelve bunches of Hardy Perennials (distinct). 

 Amateurs. First Prize, Silver Flora Medal and £1. 10s., to 

 W. Marshall, Esq., Auchinraith, Bexley (gardener, Mr. Pratt). 

 Second Prize, £1, to E. M. Nelson, Esq., Hanger Hill House, 

 Ealing (gardener, Mr. E. Chadwick). 



Class ;-3.— Eight bunches of Hardy Perennials (distinct). 

 Amateurs. First Prize, Bronze Flora Medal and £1, to Miss 

 E. Debenham, St. Peter's, St. Albans. 



Class 14. — Six varieties of Gaillardias. Amateurs. First 

 Prize (presented by Messrs. Kelway), Kelway Silver Medal, to 

 Lord Wimborne, Canford Manor, Dorset (gardener, Mr. T. H. 

 Grasp). 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



Messrs. Pitcher & Manda, Hextable, Swanley, Kent, exhibited 

 Cypripedium Browni x ; a cross between C. longifolium var. 

 and C. leucorrhodum, the flowers very closely resembling those 

 of the last-named variety. 



Messrs. Seeger & Tropp, Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, 

 staged several very distinct forms of Cattleya labiata Gaskelliana ; 

 also G. Mossiaa formosa, a very brightly coloured variety, Laalia 

 :xanthina, with an imperfectly developed spike, and a plant of a 

 Grammatophyllum, near to G. multiflorum, named G. Seegeri- 

 anurn. It came from the Molucca Islands. 



Mr. Prewett, Hammersmith, sent Aerides maculosum, 

 Prewett's variety. A well-grown plant with a stout, branched, 

 ascending inflorescence, the flowers closely resembling those of 

 Aerides maculosum Schroderi. 



F. Wigan, Esq., Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gardener, Mr. 

 Young), exhibited a plant of Angrascum caudatum in flower, 

 also a specimen of Odontoglossum cordatum ; and Mr. C. Harris, 

 The Gardens, Victoria House, Dukinfield, Cheshire, sent cut 

 flowers of several varieties of Cattleya Mossia?. 



