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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



exhibited the beautiful Indian yellow and purple La?lia x Latona 

 >(L. cinnabarina ? x L. purpurata <?). 



Orchid Committee, May 9, 1893. 



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

 members present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Silver Flora Medal. 

 To W. F. Darnell, Esq., Devonshire House, Stamford Hill 

 (gr. Mr. W. Davis), for a fine group of Orchids tastefully 

 arranged with foliage plants. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. Pitcher & Manda, Hextable, Swanley, Kent, for a 

 group of Orchids, in which there were many forms of Cattleya 

 labiata Mossia?. 



First Class Certificate. 

 To Dendrobium Bensonas album (votes, unanimous), from 

 Thomas Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester (gr. 

 Mr. R. Johnson). A form of this plant had previously received 

 an Award of Merit, but that now exhibited was a larger and 

 much better variety. 



Award of Merit. 



To Laelia purpurata Lowiana (votes, unanimous), from 

 Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton. The labellum of this form 

 is of a dark purplish maroon. 



To Odontoglossuin crispum var. De Barri Crawshay (votes, 

 unanimous), from De B. Crawshay, Esq., Hose field, Sevenoaks 

 (gr. Mr. Sydney Cooke). A heavily spotted and fine form. 



To Cattleya x Harold (C. labiata Gaskelliana ? x 0. 

 Warscewiczii c?) (votes, 9 for, 1 against), from Norman C. 

 Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. Murray). 

 The single flower borne on the small plant exhibited resembled 

 some of the forms of C. Warscewiczii. 



