ORCHID COMMITTEE, SEPTEMBER 20. 



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

 Mr. R. Johnson;. This beautiful novelty may be likened to a 

 C. Hardyana with cream- white sepals and petals. The crimson 

 in the lip is lighter than in C. Hardyana. 



Award of Merit. 

 To Cattleya Minucia x (C. Loddigesii ? x C. labiata 3). 

 (votes, unanimous;, from Messrs. Veitch & Sons, Chelsea. The 

 plant exhibited was small, and bore a flower about half the size 

 of a C. labiata, but with evidence of the seed-bearing parent in 

 the labellum. 



Other Exhibits. 



J. Foster Alcock, Esq., Northchurch, Berkhamstead, exhibited 

 a plant of Catasetum pileatum (Bungerothii) with seven male 

 flowers and one female flower on the spike. 



Thos. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, near Manchester, 

 (gardener, Mr. R. Johnson), showed Cattleya aurea Statteriana, 

 previously awarded a First-class Certificate. It is almost 

 entirely golden yellow, there being only a few purple markings 

 in the labellum. 



Messrs. Linden (PHorticulture Internationale), Pare Leopold, 

 Brussels, sent Cyrtopodium Alicia?, and a yellow species, which, 

 not being sufficiently advanced, the Committee requested to see 

 again. The same firm also sent the true Odontoglossum 

 praestans. 



Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, staged a small group, 

 comprising many rare Cypripediums, Dendrobium Phalsenopsis 

 Schroderianum, Yanda ca&rulea, &c. 



Chas. L. X. Ingram, Esq., Elstead House, Godalming (gar- 

 dener, Mr. T. W. Bondi, showed a hybrid Oypripediuin of the 

 Harrisianum class. 



Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper Holloway, exhibited 

 Oncidium incurvum album, which received a First-class Certifi- 

 cate in 1884. 



Geo. Hardy, Esq., Pickering Lodge, Timperley (gardener, Mr.. 

 W. Holmes), sent a spike of the true Yanda insignis. 



W. Walker, Esq., Brettargh Holt, Eendal, exhibited two fine 

 specimens of Saccolabiurn Blurnei, each with twelve spikes. 



Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton, staged a small group of 

 Yanda Kimbalhana, Dendrobium formosum giganteum, Cattleyas, 



