ORCHID COMMITTEE, SEPTEMBER 6. 



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Orchid Committee, September 6, 1892. 



Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R.S., in the Chair, and nine 

 members present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Silver Gilt Medal. 

 To Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, for a remarkably 

 fine group of Orchids, in which the large specimens of Yanda 

 Sanderiana were of great merit. In the aggregate they bore 124 

 blooms. 



Silver Flora Medal. 

 To W. E. B. Farnham, Esq., Quorndon House, Loughborough 

 (gardener, Mr. Cooke), for a showy group made up of 36 varieties 

 of Dendrobium Phalaenopsis Schroderianum and a lot of good 

 D. formosum giganteum. 



Silver Bariksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. Pitcher & Manda, Hextable, Swanley, Kent, for a 

 group of Orchids, chiefly of rare Cypripediums, with which were 

 a number of plants of Oncidium incurvum, &c. 



First Class Certificate. 

 To Cattleya speciosissima Sanderiana (votes, unanimous), from 

 W. R. Lee, Esq., Beech Lawn, Audenshaw, Manchester. A 

 splendid pure white variety, with only a slight pale yellow tinge 

 in the tube of the labellum. 



To Cattleya Oweniana (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. F. 

 Sander & Co., St. Albans. A supposed natural hybrid of the C. 

 aurea class, with cream-coloured sepals and petals and rich crim- 

 son lip veined with yellow, and much resembling in that respect 

 C. Hardyana. 



To Sophro-Cattleya Veitchii x (Sophronitis grandiflora $ x 

 Lasho- Cattleya elegans [Schilleriana] $ ) (votes, unanimous), from 

 Messrs. Jas. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. A remarkable hybrid, pro- 

 ducing from a plant only a few inches in height showy flowers 

 with the sepals and petals clear rosy-red, with an orange tinge, 

 the veining being of a darker hue ; lip yellow at the base, with 

 crimson veining and tip to the front lobe. 



Award of Merit. 

 To Lania elegans superbissima (votes, unanimous), from Thos. 

 Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester (gardener, Mr. 



