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Second Diploma : To Lmlia anccps Hollidayana rosefieldiensis, from 

 De B. Crawshay, Esq. 



Cypripedmvi villositm and Boxallii {species). 



First Diploma : To Cypripedium Boxallii nigricans, from Francis 

 Wellesley, Esq. 



G. villosum and Boxallii {hybrids). 



First Diploma : To Cypripedium x aurciim virgmale {nitens Sallieri 

 Hyeanum x Spicerianum), from J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., and G. F. 

 Moore, Esq. 



Second Diploma : To Cypripedium x ' Mrs. Wm. Mostyn,' Chard war 

 variety, from J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., and G. F. Moore, Esq, 



Other Exhibits. 



Francis Wellesley, Esq. (gr. Mr. Hopkins), sent various hybrid 

 Cypripediums. 



J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (gr. Mr. Davis), showed varieties of Cypri- 

 pedium X aureum. 



E. I. Measures, Esq. (gr. Mr. Smith), showed a collection of cut 

 Orchids. 



H. Druce, Esq. (gr. Mr. Walker), showed hybrids of Cypripedium 

 villosum and Boxallii. 



Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Sons sent six hybrids of Sophronitis 

 grandiflora. 



Orchid Committee, March 6, 1906. 

 Mr. J. Gurney Fowler in the Chair, and twenty-seven members present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Gold Medal. 



To W. A. Bilney, Esq., Fir Grange, Weybridge (gr. Mr. Whitlock), 

 for a fine group of Dendrobiums. 



Silver -gilt Flora Medal. 



To the Hon. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park (gr. Mr. Dye), for a group 

 of the stately Lissochilus Horsfallii imported from West Africa. The 

 species first flowered with Mr. Horsfall, of Bellamour Hall, Staffordshire, 

 in 1864, whose plant was figured in the "Botanical Magazine," t. 5486. 

 Since that time it has not flowered in Europe until the present specimens. 

 Mr. Walter Rothschild, knowing the conditions under which the plant 

 grew in W. Africa, caused it to be treated as a river-bank plant, the 

 specimens being placed in tubs of water and occasional waterings of 

 liquid manure given. The plants grew most vigorously, the flower-spikes 

 attaining a height of five feet. The upper part of the spikes bore seventy 

 to a hundred large flowers and buds. 



To Messrs. Charlesworth for a fine group of hybrid Orchids. 



Silver Flora Medal 

 To Baron Sir H. Schroder, Bart., The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), 

 for a group of Calanthe x ' Baron Schroder ' and C. Begnieri. 



