CCxiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Orchid Committee, November 10, 1896. 



Harry J. Veitch, Esq., in the Chair, and thirteen members 



present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Silver Flora Medal. 



To Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, for a remarkable 

 group of hybrid Orchids, in which thirty-two distinct and showy 

 kinds were staged. 



Silver Banhsian Medal. 



To W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, Stafford- 

 shire (gr. Mr. W. Stevens), for a group of Odontoglossums 

 and Cattleyas. 



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

 group of Orchids. 



First-class Certificate. 



To Cattleya maxima alba (votes, unanimous), from Hamar 

 Bass, Esq., Byrkley, Burton-on-Trent (gr. Mr. J. Hamilton). A 

 fine pure white variety. 



To Laelio-Cattleya x Nysa superba (L. crispa x C. Warsce- 

 wiczii $) (votes, 11 for, 1 against), from Messrs. Jas. Veitch & 

 Sons, Chelsea. A fine hybrid, with a general resemblance to 

 L.-C. x Exoniensis, but an improvement on that variety. 



Award of Merit. 



To Cypripedium { Fred Hardy ' (votes, unanimous), from 

 Fred Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey (gr. Mr. T. 

 Stafford). This seemed to occupy to the species C. Charlesworthii 

 the same position that C. Lawrenceanum Hyeanum does to its 

 type, viz. a variation in which nearly all colour but white and 

 green is suppressed. Petals and lip yellowish green, upper sepal 

 white with a faint lilac tinge at its base ; staminode white 

 with a yellow boss in the centre. 



To Odontoglossum crispum ' Golden Queen ' (votes, unani- 

 mous), from W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stowe, 

 Staffordshire (gr. Mr. W. Stevens). Flowers pale yellow spotted 

 with brown. 



