ORCHID COMMITTEE, MAY 19. CXVU 



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

 sent Oncidium varicosum Rogersii, with very fine bulbs and a 

 very strong inflorescence. 



Messrs. F. Sander & Co. staged an effective group of Orchids. 



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

 (gr. Mr. R. Johnson), showed Laslio- Cattleya x highburyensis. 



Messrs. W. S. Lewis & Co., Southgate, sent Odontoglossum 

 Pescatorei Lewisii and other Orchids. 



Orchid Committee, May 19, 1896. 



Temple Show. 



Harry J. Veitch, Esq., in the Chair, and twenty-one 

 members present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



First Class Certificate. 



To Odontoglossum crispum augustum (votes, 11 for, 5 against), 

 from Messrs. Linden, 1'Horticulture Internationale. Pare Leopold, 

 Brussels. A very fine dark purple blotched variety resembling 

 0. c. Frantz Masereel, but an improvement on it in every way. 

 This plant was sold during the show for 350 guineas. (Fig. 12.) 



To Cattleya Mossiae Arnoldiana, Low's var. (votes, unanimous), 

 from Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton. A very large white 

 Mossiae, with pure pink feather on each petal, and with purple 

 veining on the lip. 



To Cattleya Luddemanniana Ernestii (votes, unanimous), 

 from H. S. Leon, Esq., Bletchley Park, Bletchley (gr. Mr. A. 

 Hislop). This is the finest and darkest-coloured form of the 

 plant, known in gardens as Cattleya Speciosissima. 



To Laelia purpurata Lewisii (votes, 12 for, 6 against) from 

 Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co., Southgate, N. This is the nearest 

 approach to a wholly white L. purpurata, there being no colour, 

 even in the labellum, other than an obscure yellow tint and some 

 very fine dark lines at the base of the lip. 



Award of Merit. 

 To Laelia purpurata ' Arthur Wigan ' (votes, unanimous), 



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