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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Orchid Committee, September 12, 1893. 



Sydney Court auld, Esq., in the Chair, and nine members 

 present. 



Awards Recommended: — 



Silver Flora Medal. 

 To Messrs. F. Sander & Co., for a group of Orchids, among 

 which were the nearly white Lycaste Skinnerii pulcherrima, 

 Oncidium incurvum album, several Miltonia spectabilis Morel- 

 iana, three Habenaria militaris, three H. carnea, Oncidium 

 Jonesianum, Aerides Lawrenceanum, Angraecum articulatum, 

 Cattleya Gaskelliana alba, and many varieties of Cypripedium. 



Silver Banhsian Medal. 

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

 including Cypripedium Victoria Marias, C. x Brayanum, C. x 

 marmarophyllum, C. x picturatum, C. x cenanthum superbum, 

 three plants of the pure white Stanhopea Amesiana, Miltonia 

 Roezlii, Trichopilia Wagneri, &c. 



Bronze Banhsian Medal. 

 To R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. 

 Mr. H. Chapman), for a small group of hybrid Cypripediums. 



First Class Certificate. 

 To Cypripedium x Aphrodite (C. niveum $ x C. Lawrence- 

 anum $ ) (votes, 8 for, 2 against), from Messrs. James Veitch & 

 Sons, Chelsea. A fine white flower spotted with purple, and the 

 reverse cross to C. x Antigone. 



Award of Merit. 

 To Cypripedium x Clothilde Moens (C. Haynaldianum $ x 

 C. x Leeanum 3) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Linden, 

 1' Horticulture Internationale, Pare Leopold, Brussels. The 

 individual flowers showed evident traces of C. x Leeanum, but 

 they were borne three on a spike. It is doubtful whether 

 this plant is distinct from the hybrid known as C. x De Witt 

 Smith. 



To Laelio-Cattleya x Epicasta (L. pumila ? x C. War- 

 scewiczii (?) (votes, 4 for), from Messrs. James Veitch k Sons, 

 Chelsea. A pretty dwarf variety with rose-coloured sepals and 

 petals, and crimson-veined labellum. 



