EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



Sir Tbevoe Lawrence, Bart., M.P. (President R.H.S.), 



in the Chair, and eight members present. 

 The meeting was marked by a very fine gathering of Orchids, 

 not only as regards rarity and beauty, but also in quantity, the 

 greater portion of the staging running up the middle of the Hall 

 being taken up by them. 



Foremost must be placed the large group staged by Mr. H. 

 Ballantine, from Baron Schroder's collection at The Dell, Egham, 

 to which was awarded a Gold Medal, and which was remarkable for 

 a fine representative collection of varieties of Dendrobium nobile, 

 ranging from the almost pure white with maroon eye D. nobile 

 (Schroder's var.) to the rich crimson D. nobile nobilius ; the D. 

 nobile Cooksonii, with petals blotched with purple like the lip, 

 to the fine old D. nobile elegans. Dendrobium Ainsworthii, too, 

 was represented by fine specimens ; also the new D. euosmum 

 leucopterum, D. Jamesianum, the flowers snow-white with orange 

 lip, D. barbatulum, and other Dendrobes. Odontoglossums in 

 this fine group were 0. Hinnus, 0. elegans, and several very fine 

 forms of Wilckeanum. Among Cattleyas was a noble specimen 

 of the rosy-crimson C. Lawrenceana, with twenty-two flowers ; 

 and Laelias were represented by a many-spiked specimen of 

 the scarlet L. cinnabarina, and the extremely rare L. Jonghe- 

 ana, with rose-coloured flowers five inches across, the ridges on 

 the centre of the lip being bright orange. 



A Silver Gilt Banksian Medal was awarded to Messrs. 

 F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, for a fine group of well-grown 

 specimens, comprising Odontoglossum Hallii, 0. H. leucoglos- 

 sum, an elegant specimen of Dendrobium transparens, literally 

 •covered with pale lilac flowers ; another of the closely allied D. 

 marmoratum, and an equally fine specimen of D. Devonianum, 

 not often seen of such great size. A large specimen of Cattleya 

 Skinneri, one of the rich crimson-lipped C. Trianre superba, a 

 good C. Lawrenceana, a fine specimen of the rare golden Onci- 

 dium bifolium majus, and the pure white Trichopilia suavis alba, 

 were also in Messrs. F. Sander & Co.'s collection. 



To Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., and also to F. G. Tautz, 

 Esq., Studley House, Goldhawk Road, were awarded Silver Medals 

 for groups of rare Orchids, that from the President of the 



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