ORCHID COMMITTEE, JUNE 26. 



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Messrs. Rothschild, Gunnersbury Park, Acton (gr. Mr. G. 

 Reynolds), exhibited a fine plant of Cattleya labiata Warneri. 



Mr. H. A. Tracy, Amyand Park Road, Twickenham, sent 

 Miltonia vexillaria "Duchess of York," with nearly white 

 flowers. 



Arnold Witt, Esq., Blomfield Road, Maida Vale, showed a 

 very thickly spotted Cypripedium bellatulum. 



S. G. Lutwyche, Esq., Eden Park, Beckenham, showed 

 Cypripedium Godefroyse leucocheilum and Maxillaria stapeli- 

 oides. 



The executors of the late Geo. Hardy, Esq., Pickering Lodge, 

 Timperley, Cheshire (gr. Mr. Holmes), showed Dendrobium Stat- 

 terianum, a supposed natural hybrid, with flowers like those of 

 D. crystallinum. 



Sydney Courtauld, Esq., Booking Place, Braintree, showed 

 the rare and curious little Masdevallia O'Brieniana. 



E. Walker, Esq., Leek, sent for name Odontoglossum 

 Galeottianum. 



F. W. Moore, Esq., Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, 

 Dublin, sent good spikes of Aganisia ionoptera and Grammato- 

 phyllum Micholitzianum. 



J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, South Woodford, Essex 

 (gr. Mr. J. Davis), showed two plants of Cattleya Mossiae alba, 

 and spikes of C. labiata Gaskelliana, C. 1. Mendelii, and Laelio- 

 Cattleya x elegans. 



NARCISSUS COMMITTEE. 



March 27, 1894. 

 J. Bennett-Poe, Esq., in the Chair, and nine members present. 



A large number of very interesting hybrid seedlings were 

 sent for inspection by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. The 

 following were selected as among the best, viz. : — 



i. Obvallaris x Poeticus, a fine Ajax with lemon trumpet. 



ii. General Gordon x Burbidgei. In the bunch of blossoms 

 resulting from this cross was one flower of very great merit 

 amongst a number of others somewhat less so. 



iii. Tazetta Ch. Dickens x Pallidus Precox. 



There were many other varieties of Tazetta crossed with some 

 form of Ajax, but for the most part the individual flowers were so 



