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To Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, for an extensive 

 group of Orchids. 



To H. T. Pitt, Esq., Kosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Aldous), 

 for an excellent group of Orchids. 



To Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton, for a very fine group 

 of Cattleya Mossise and other showy Orchids. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. 

 W. H. White), for a very interesting group, in which were many 

 rare specimens of Masdevallias, Epidendrum Brassavola, E. 

 prismatocarpum, Luisia Amesiana, Laelio-Cattleya x Arnoldiana, 

 &c. 



To Welbore S. Ellis, Esq., Hazelbourne, Dorking (gr. Mr. 

 Masterton), for a collection of well-grown Odontoglossum crispum. 



To Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper Holloway, N., for a 

 group of Orchids. 



Bronze Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. W. L. Lewis & Co., Southgate, for a group of 

 Orchids. 



First Class Certificate. 



To Miltonia vexillaria ' Memoria G. D. Owen ' (votes, unani- 

 mous), from Sir Frederick Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. 

 Mr. W. H. Young). A noble variety and the best of that section 

 which includes M. v. superba and M. v. Leopoldii. Flowers 

 light magenta, the base of the lip being decorated with a broad 

 triangular blotch of several merging lines of dark blood-red 

 colour. (Fig. 13.) 



Award of Merit. 

 To Catasetum x splendens leucanthum (votes, 7 for, 5 against), 

 from the Honble. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park, Tring. The 

 flowers of this natural hybrid between C. Bungerothii and C. 

 macrocarpum were very large, ivory white, with emerald green 

 base to the lip. 



To Laelio-Cattleya x Pytho (L.-C. elegans $ x C. Loddigesii $ ) 

 votes, 6 for, 4 against), from C. L. N. Ingram, Esq., Elstead 

 House, Godalming (gr. Mr. T. W. Bond). A pretty hybrid, in- 

 clining towards L.-C. elegans, but with larger, wavy, purple-rose 



up. 



