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sent a pink-flowered Vallota, which the Committee desired to 

 see again next year. 



Messrs. William Paul & Son, Waltham Cross, sent cut blooms 

 of a fine new Rose, named Spenser, bright pink. 



Messrs. John Laing & Sons, Forest Hill, sent several good 

 varieties of single and double-flowered Begonias. 



Mr. J. T. Gilbert, Dyke, Bourne, Lincolnshire, sent fine cut 

 blooms of Rosa polyantha " The Engineer," certificated last 

 year, the Committee confirming the award then made. 



From the Society's Gardens w r as sent a varied collection of 

 Sweet Peas. 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



Harry J. Veitch, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair, and eleven 

 members present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver Flora Medal. 



To His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth (gardener, 

 Mr. 0. Thomas), for a group of twenty plants of Disa uniflora 

 (D. grandiflora), magnificently grown and flowered, and stated to 

 be but a sample of about 200 plants in flower at Chatsworth at 

 the time. The plants had from one to seven spikes each, and 

 the individual flowers were large and of a brilliant scarlet. 



To the Right Hon. the Marquis of Salisbury, E.G., Hatfield 

 House (gardener, Mr. G. Norman), for a group of fifteen cut 

 spikes of Saccolabium Blumei. Similar spikes from the same 

 plants have been exhibited annually for several years from Hat- 

 field House, and the Committee recommended the Medal for 

 continued good culture and excellent flowering. 



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

 extensive group of Orchids, comprising ten well-flowered plants 

 of Cypripedium Morgans x , and various other Cypripediums ; 

 the rare Vanda concolor ; many varieties of Vanda tricolor, 

 among them being V. t. insignis, V. t. formosa, V. t. Glen var., 

 and V. t. Dalkeith var. ; also some forms of V. suavis, and Dem- 

 drobiums, Odontoglossums, &c. 



