ORCHID COMMITTEE, JUNE 6. 



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Orchid Committee, June 6, 1893. 



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



present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver Flora Medal. 



To Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton, for a group of showy 

 Orchids, in which the varieties of Cypripedium bellatulum were 

 remarkable. An interesting plant in the collection was Odonto- 

 glossum crinitum sapphiratum, Reich, f. 



Silver Banks ian Medal. 



To Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co., Southgate, N., for a well- 

 arranged group of Cattleyas, Laelias, Masdevallias, &c. 



To A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, Wallington (gr. Mr. 

 G. W. Cummins), for a collection of cut flowers of fine varieties 

 of Cattleya Mossiae. 



Other Exhibits. 



Captain Hincks, Terrace House, Richmond, Yorks, sent 

 Masdevallia x Veitchiano-Estradae, a pretty hybrid with apricot- 

 coloured flowers. 



Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, showed Zygopetalum 

 Burtii, Dendrobium hercoglossum, Laslia x 0 weniana, and Physo- 

 siphon Loddigesii. 



A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, Wallington, showed Lycaste 

 Deppei viridis, in which the sepals were emerald green and 

 unspotted. 



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

 Mr. R. Johnson), exhibited Cattleya Warscewiczii delicata, 

 C. W. Stand Hall var., Laalia purpurata gigantea, L. tenebrosa, 

 and Cypripedium superbiens var. 



Prize. 



Class 3. — For the best seedling Orchid not exhibited previously 

 to January 1, 1893. (Open.) Silver Gilt Flora Medal, to Messrs. 

 F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, for Laalio-Cattleya x Maynardii 



