clvi PEOCEEDINaS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
Award of Merit. 
To Cattleya Eldorado enfieldiensis (votes, 6 for, 4 against), from 
Messrs. Hugh Low, Clapton. Flower white, with a yellow throat, and 
purple tip to the lip. 
Other Exhibits. 
Sir William Marriott, Down House, Blandford (gr. Mr. Denny), 
sent Laelio-Cattleya x ' Clonia,' Down House variety (Lselio- Cattleya x 
elegans x Cattleya Warscewiczii), a beautiful flower, distinctly showing 
the Lselio- Cattleya parent. 
E. Bostock, Esq., Tixall Lodge, Stafford, showed Cattleya Harrisoniana 
violacea, the plant carrying nine fine flowers. 
M. Florent Claes, Kue des Champs, Brussels, sent Odontoglossum 
crispum, var. De Sadeleri, a whitish flower with pale yellow margins 
and brown spots. 
R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Flodden Road, S.E. (gr. Mr. 
H. J. Chapman), showed Cattleya Patrocini (C. Leopoldi x C. Lod- 
digesii) ; also Cattleya Warnero-Bowringiana. 
Rev. F. Paynter, Stoke Hill, Guildford (gr. Mr. W. H. Cook), sent 
Cypripedium x Fairieano-Stonei. 
Orchid Comaiittee, August 28. 
Harey J. Veitch, Esq., in the Chair, and twelve members present. 
Awards Recommended:— 
First-class Certificate. 
To Cattleya x illuminata (parentage unrecorded) (votes, unanimous),, 
from Mrs. Briggs-Bury, Bank House, Accrington (gr. Mr. Wilkinson). 
A close ally to C. x Atlanta (Leopoldi x Warscewiczii). Sepals and 
petals yellowish, tinged with rose. Side lobe of lip blush-white with 
ruby-crimson tips ; front lobe ruby-crimson. 
Award of Merit. 
To Odontoglossum x Adrianse ' Countess of Morley ' (votes, 6 for, 
3 against), from Captain Holford, Westonbirt (gr. Mr. A. Chapman). 
Flowers cream- white, with large brown blotches. 
To Lffilio-Cattleya x elegans ' J. Davis ' (votes, unanimous), from 
Mr. H. A. Tracy, Amyand Park Road, Twickenham. A very large form, 
with pale rosy-lilac flowers, wuth bright carmine-purple lip. 
To Cattleya bicolor (votes, 9 for, 2 against), from W. C. Walker, Esq., 
Winchmore Hill (gr. Mr. Geo. Cragg). A good plant of the typical form 
with four spikes of flowers was shown. 
Cultural Commendation. 
To Mr. A. Chapman, gr. to Captain Holford, for examples of Den- 
drobium Phalaenopsis Schroderianum, with from eighteen to twenty- two 
fully expanded flowers on the spikes. 
To Mr. H. Bacon, gr. to W. W. Astor, Esq., Cliveden, Maidenhead, 
for a very large specimen of Peristeria elata with eight spikes of flowers. 
