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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Society being rich in rare plants of special botanical interest, as 

 well as showy species exceptionally well flowered. The white 

 and fragrant Aeranthus Leonis had two sprays of ten flowers ; the 

 rare Cynibidiuin eburnemn Dayanum, with purple spots on the 

 hps of its waxlike white flowers, had eleven large blossoms ; Cypri- 

 pedium Curtisii was perhaps never so well shown ; and Lycaste 

 Sehilleriana, Catasetuni barbatum proboscideurn, and Restrepia 

 elegans, most singular and beautiful species. A new white 

 Epidendrmn was also exhibited by Mr. Bickerstaffe from the Bur- 

 ford Lodge collection with the others enumerated. 



In Mr. Tautz's group the most rare and beautiful plant was 

 Miltonia vexillaria purpurea, with large flat purplish rose 

 flowers— the best of the coloured M. vexillarias. A magnificent 

 specimen of Cymbidium eburneum also bore twenty-four large 

 white flowers ; Miltonia vexillaria leucoglossa had a fine spray of 

 nearly white flowers ; and the true Cypripedium villosuin aureum, 

 which has the dorsal sepal almost wholly yellow, was exhibited. 



From the Royal Gardens, Kew, and staged with the wonderful 

 collection of Aroids and other plants from those gardens, was a 

 large mass of the white Diacrium (Epidendrum) bicornutum 

 with ten fine sprays — a marvel and a triumph of good culture 

 of this difficult plant. The elegant Pleurothallis insignis was 

 also in the Kew group, and an interesting lot of terrestrial 

 Orchids— comprising Orchis Morio picta, 0. pallens, 0. longi- 

 bracteata, and 0. arachnites. 



Messrs. James Yeitch & Son sent a hybrid Dendrobe between 

 D. "Wardianuin and D. aureum, and evidently intermediate in 

 character, but not strong enough to judge. Mr. Blair sent from 

 Trentham Gardens, Stoke-on-Trent, a fine hybrid Odontoglossum 

 named 0. Sutherlandii, with yellowish flowers spotted with 

 reddish brown ; George Firth, Esq., of Manningham Thorps, 

 near Bradford, a cut spray of the pure white variety of Phala?n- 

 opsis Sehilleriana, which, in addition to its having white flowers, 

 has also the strong rose scent of the coloured variety, of which 

 also a fine spray was sent, and another of P. amabilis. Messrs. 

 Hugh Low & Co. sent a plant of the rich crimson spotted Cypri- 

 pedium bellatulum. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Aicards for Groups of Orchids. 

 Gold Medal to Baron Schroder (gardener, Mr. H. Ballantine) ; 



