ORCHID COMMITTEE, JULY 21. 



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Silver Banhsian Medal. 

 To J. W. Temple, Esq., Leyswood, Groombridge, Tunbridge 

 Wells (gardener, Mr. E. Bristow), for a group consisting chiefly 

 of fine specimens of Cattleya Warscewiczii (gigas), well grown 

 and profusely flowered. With them were a variety of C. Mendelii 

 and a specimen of Trichopilia tortilis alba. 



First Class Certificate. 

 To Cattleya Hardyana, Hamar Bass's variety (votes, unani- 

 mous), from Hamar Bass, Esq., Byrkley, Burton-on-Trent 

 (gardener, Mr. Hamilton). This is the darkest-coloured form of 

 C. Hardyana which has yet appeared, and the rosy crimson of 

 its sepals and petals and the yellow at the base of the lip is 

 brighter than in the original form. 



Botanical Certificate. 

 To Cochlioda Noezliana (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. 



B. S. Williams k Son, Upper Holloway. A pretty plant of the 

 genus formerly known as Mesospinidium, with orange-scarlet 

 flowers. 



Other Exhibits. 



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

 exhibited Aerides maculosum (Prewett's variety), Dendrobium 

 leucolophotum, D. Dearei, and two plants of Zygopetalum 

 Wendlandii. 



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

 sent Cypripedium Browni x (C. longifolium x C. leucorrho- 

 dum x ), which the Committee considered almost identical with 



C. leucorrhodum x . 



Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, staged plants of three 

 distinct and brightly coloured forms of Masdevallia Harry ana, 

 and two good varieties of Odontoglossum crispum. 



Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt, exhibited a group of seedling 

 Disa uniflora (grandiflora) showing some variety, one of the 

 forms being almost devoid of scarlet colour, and of a uniform 

 nankeen-yellow. 



C. E. Smith, Esq., Silvermere, Cobham, Surrey (gardener, 

 Mr. James Quarterman), showed a good specimen of Oncidium 

 Lanceanum. 



