XXXVi PEOCEEDIXGS OF THE EOYAL HOETICULTrEAE SOCIETY. 



Cultural Commendation. 

 To Odontoglossum luteopurpurenni erispaturn, from Messrs. 

 Heath & Son. The Nurseries. Cheltenham: a finely bloomed plant, 

 having three racemes with an aggregate of fifty flowers. 



Other Exhibits. 



Mr. B. S. "William?. The Nurseries. Upper Holloway. sent an 

 interesting group of plants, comprising the white form of Lyeaste 

 Skinneri. Laelia albida bella. Cypripedium Measnresianum X and 

 C. hirsutissiniurn. Odontoglossum baphieanthnm (yellow spotted 

 with chocolate), and Coelogyne cristata alba ; Azalea Princes? of 

 Wale?, a double-flowered variety, with large full flowers of good 

 substance, white shaded rose ; also a pan of the free-flowering 

 Primula fioribunda. 



Cut flowers were sent of a double-flowered variety of Spar- 

 rnannia africana. of which the Committee desired to see plants. 



Messrs. Heath & Son sent Masdevallia Heathi X. a hybrid 

 between M. Yeitchi and M. ignea rubescens. 



The Duke of Marlborough. Blenheim Park, Woodstock 

 (gardener. Mr. T. Whellans), sent Cypripedium Elhottianum, 

 which is probably only a form of C. Piothschildianum. 



Sir G. Macleay, Pendell Court, Bletchingley (gardener, Mr. 

 F. Boss), sent flowers of the pretty Hardenbergia Comptoniana, 

 Mutisia Clematis, Canarina Campanula, the Brazilian Calliandra 

 Tweediana— a beautiful stove plant — and a healthy stem of 

 Arab' a Yeitchi, which had been grown planted out in a green- 

 house temperature. 



Mr. Gordon. The Nursery, Twickenham, sent cut flowers of 

 Japanese. Camellias — curious and showy — and three plants in 

 flower of Japanese Azaleas. 



Mr. J. Douglas sent the beautiful Hyacinthus azureus — quite 

 a gem. 



The Duke of Northumberland, Albury Park, Guildford (gar- 

 dener, Mr. W. C. Leach), sent some boxes of excellently grown 

 Violets, the varieties consisting of De Panne, Neapolitan, Marie 

 Louise, and Swanley White. 



Mr. H. B. May. Dyson s Lane Nursery, Upper Edmonton, 

 sent plants of Hose-in-Hose Polyanthus — rose. red. and crimson — 

 useful for decoration- 

 Mess: s. J. Yeitch & Sons sent Dendrobium Schneiderianum, 



