ccliv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



First-class Certificate. 



To Odontoglossum x Vuylstekei vivicans (? triumphans x Wilcke 

 anurn albcns) (votes, unanimous), from Baron Sir H. Schroder. A fine 

 hybrid with pale yellow sepals and petals heavily marked with red-purple, 

 and white lip with one large and some smaller brown blotches. (Fig. 204.) 



Award of Merit. 



To Cypripedium insigne Sanderce * Oakwood Seedling ' (votes, 13 for, 4 

 against), from Norman C. Cookson, Esq. A natural seedling raised at 

 Oakwood. Dwarfer than the original, and with a yellow band dividing the 

 basal green and the apical white of the dorsal sepal. 



To Odontoglossum crispum Marice (votes, unanimous), from Norman C. 

 Cookson, Esq. Flowers white, tinged with purple, and evenly blotched 

 with red -brown. 



To Cypripedium x Leeanum Clinkaberryanum (Spicerianum x 

 insigne var.) (votes, unanimous), from Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Baron 

 Schroder, and 0. 0. Wrigley, Esq. One of the best of its class. Flowers 

 large, dorsal sepal white, with emerald-green base. 



To Odontoglossum x Harryano-crispum ridens (Harryanum x 

 crispum) (votes, unanimous), from Monsieur Vuylsteke, Ghent. A very 

 large variety with cream-white flowers finely marked with rose-purple. 



To Cypripedium x nitens Wrigleyanum {villosum x insigne var.) 

 (votes, 13 for, 1 against), from 0. 0. Wrigley, Esq., Bury, Lancashire (gr. 

 Mr. Eogers). Flowers greenish-yellow, the dorsal sepal profusely spotted 

 with chocolate, and with a white tip. 



Cultural Commendation. 

 To Mr. H. J. Chapman (gr. to Norman C. Cookson, Esq.), for Cypri- 

 pedium insigne Sander <z with ten flowers. 



Other Exhibits. 



Captain Holford, CLE. (gr. Mr. Alexander), sent Orchids. 

 J. T. Bennett-Poe, Esq., V.M.H. (gr. Mr. Downes), sent Cymbidium x 

 Tracy ano-giganteum. 



Mr. Tracy, Twickenham, showed Cypripedium x ' Chas. Canham ' 



aureum. 



W. M. Appleton, Esq., Weston-super-Mare, showed Cypripediums. 



Lieut.-Col. Cary-Batten, Bristol, sent Cypripedium x ' Mrs. Cary- 

 Batten.' Parentage unrecorded. 



F. A. Render, Esq. (gr. Mr. Norris), showed Cypripedium x 1 Zia ' 

 (Exul x ' Ianthe ' sup>erbum). 



