ORCHID COMMITTEE, NOVEMBER 10. 



CCXV 



Cultural Commendation. 

 To Mr. H. Ballantine, gardener to Baron Schroder, The Dell, 

 Staines, for a grand specimen of Cymbidium Tracyanum, with 

 eighteen flowers on a spike, each flower six inches across. 



To Mr. Hyslop, gardener to H. S. Leon, Esq., Bletchley Park, 

 Bletchley, for a fine plant of Laelia pumila with eleven large 

 flowers. 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton, showed a group of 

 Orchids. 



Mr. R. Giilzow, Bexley Heath, exhibited a group of Dendro- 

 bium, Phalsenopsis, &c. 



J. Hawthorn Kitson, Esq., Elmet Hall, Leeds (gr. Mr. T. 

 Bonsall), sent a fine form of Odontoglossum Uro-Skinnerii and of 

 Cattleya Bowringiana. 



Messrs. Jas. Garaway & Co., Clifton, sent a curiously double 

 form of Cattleya labiata. 



G. W. Law-Schofield, Esq., New-Hall-Hey, near Manchester 

 (gr. Mr. Shill), showed a fine pan of Coelogyne (Pleione) macu- 

 lata alba, with thirty flowers ; also a number of coloured 

 drawings of rare Orchids. 



H. H. Bolton, Esq., Height Side, Newchurch, Manchester 

 (gr. Mr. Eastwood), sent a large variety of Cattleya labiata. 



H. Shaw, Esq., Heathfield, Birch Vale, Derbyshire (gr. 

 Mr. Cliffe), showed a hybrid Cypripedium near to C. x 

 4 Euryale.' 



Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, exhibited Calanthe x 

 albata (C. veratrifolia x Cooksonii). A very singular hybrid with 

 white flowers, and intermediate between the evergreen Calanthe 

 and the deciduous section. 



Frau Ida Brandt, Riesbach, Zurich, sent a very brightly 

 coloured Odontoglossum Krameri and 0. cristatellum. 



Col. Wilson, Hillside, Allerton, Liverpool (gr. Mr. T. Healey), 

 sent Cypripedium x (C. bellatulum ? x C. callosum <?). 



C. L. N. Ingram, Esq., Elstead House, Godalming, Surrey 

 (gr. Mr. T. W. Bond), exhibited Lselio- Cattleya x ' Meteor ' 

 (L. pumila Dayana ? x C. Bowringiana^), L.-C. x ' Homere ' 

 (L. Perrinii $ x C. Percivaliana^), and L.-C. x * Minerve ' 

 (L. Perrinii? x C. Lawrenceana^). 



