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Esq., Kingston Hill. This is a fine, well-known species, with 

 short sprays of white flowers tipped with mauve. 



To Laelia-Cattleya Palles X, from Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Son. 

 This is the result of crossing Lrelia crispa with Cattleya Dowiana. 

 Its richly coloured lahellum partakes of the colouring of C. 

 Dowiana, hut exhibits a more decided violet tinge. 



To Cypripedium Niobe X, from Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Son. 

 A beautiful variety obtained between C. Fairrieanum and C. 

 Spicerianum. 



Award of Merit. 

 To Cypripedium T. B. Haywood X< from Messrs. Jas. Veitch 

 & Son. 



To Cypripedium Galatea majus X, from Baron Schroder 

 (gardener, Mr. Ballantine). 

 Cultural Commendation. 



To Lord Rothschild, M.P., Tring Park (gardener, Mr. E. 

 Hill), for a very robust and well-flowered specimen of Vanda 

 Amesiana. 



Other Exhibits. 



Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, staged a select group 

 of very fine Orchids, many of them new species. 



C. Ingram, Esq., Godalming, sent a hybrid Cypripedium, 

 which the Committee pronounced to be identical with C. Latham- 

 ianum X, a variety raised at the Birmingham Botanic Gardens, 

 Edgbaston, by intercrossing C. villosum and C. Spicerianum. 



C. Parr, Esq., Wappenhall Hayes, Warrington (gardener, Mr. 

 Catt), sent a superb form of Cypripedium bellatulum, and also 

 a very handsome hybrid Cypripedium, which the Committee 

 decided was a good form of C. Leeanum X. 



E. J. Wrigley, Esq., Dukinfield, Chester (gardener, Mr. C. 

 Harris), staged a fine plant of Lrelia albida, and a good form of 

 Oncidium Forbesii. 



FRUIT COMMITTEE. 



Sir C.W. Strickland, Bart., in the Chair, and twenty-three 

 members present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Cultural Commendation. 



To the Earl of Harrington, Elvaston Castle, Derby (gardener, 



