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Orchid Committee, February 8, 1910. 

 Mr. J. GuRNEY Fowler in the Chair, and twenty-one members present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Silver-gilt Flora Medal. 

 To Messrs. J. Veitch, Chelsea, for a group. 



To Messrs. Charlesworth, Hay wards Heath, for a group, principally 

 hybrids. 



Silver Flora Medal. 

 To Messrs. Sander, St. Albans, for Phalaenopsis and OdontogloS- 

 sums. 



To Messrs. Cypher, Cheltenham, for Cypripediums. 



To Messrs. Stuart Low, Bush Hill Park, for Cattleyas, &c. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 



iTo E. Eogerson, Esq., West Didsbury, for hybrid Cypripediums. 

 To Mr. E. V. Low, Haywards Heath, for a group. 

 ; Award of Merit. 



To Cattleya Percivaliana, Westonbirt variety (votes, unanimous), 

 from Lieut. -Col. G. L. Holford, CLE., C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. 

 H. G. Alexander). The largest form yet shown ; equal in size to Cattleya 

 labiata. Flowers bright magenta rose, lip reddish-claret colour with 

 lilac margin. 



To Dendrobium x ' Duchess of Albany ' {Wiganianum x Wiganiae 

 xanthochilum) (votes, 12 for, 2 against), from Sir Jeremiah Colman, 

 Bart., V.M.H. Flowers blush-white, wax-like in texture, and very 

 freely produced. 



To Cypripediuni x Leeanum ' Excelsior ' (insigne var. x 

 Spicerianum) (votes, 8 for, 4 against), from H. J. Bromilow, Esq., 

 Eann Lea, Eainhill, Lancashire (gr. Mr. W. J. Morgan). A very large 

 flower with broad white dorsal sepal, having dotted rose-purple lines. 

 Petals and lip yellow tinged with red-brown. 



Botanical Certificate. 

 To Dendrobium arcuatum, from Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart,, 

 V.M.H. (gr. Mr. Collier). A rare species from Java, bearing, on 

 slender leafy pseudo-bulbs, sprays of four flowers. Flowers an inch 

 across, having stout spurs curved forward at the tips, white with 

 shght rose markings on the side lobes of the lip. 



Cultural Commendation. 

 To Mr. Collier, gr. to Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., V.M.H., for 

 Gymbidium grandifiorum with three fine spikes. 



Other Exhibits. 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O. : Odontogiossum x Law- 

 renceanum {Rolfeae x triumphans). 



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