ORCHID COMMITTEE, SEPTEMBER 6. 



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the Queen (gr. Mr. Owen Thomas). The fine old species 

 had not before been certificated. On this occasion a gigantic 

 specimen from the Eoyal Gardens, Frogmore, was staged. 



Award of Merit. 



To Dendrobium sanguinetim (votes, 8 for, 1 against), from 



Fig. 92.— Cattleya x ' Ella.' (Journal of Horticulture.) 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford. A slender Bornean 

 species bearing a large blood-red flower in which the sepals and 

 petals were nearly equal ; the lip small. 



To Cattleya x ' Ella' (bicolor $ Warscewiczii $ ), (votes, 11 for, 

 1 against), from Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. A very 



