-clxXXViii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Orchid Committee, October 4, 1892. 



Harry J. Veitch, Esq., F.L.S., in the Chair, and seven 

 members present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Silver Flora Medal. 

 To Messrs. B. S. Williams & Son, Upper Holloway, N., for a 

 group of Orchids, including many rare Cypripediums, Miltonia 

 Candida grandiftora with over fifty flowers, Oncidium incurvum 

 album, &c. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, for a group of rare 

 Orchids, among which were two fine varieties of Houlletia Brockle- 

 hurstiana, a beautiful pan of Phalaenopsis Lowii, Grobya Am- 

 herstiaB, Sarcanthus teretifolius, and other curious species. 



To Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton, for a group of Orchids, 

 in which were many Vanda Kimballiana, V. cserulea, and 

 several Cattleyas. 



Cultural Commendation. 



To Wilberforce Bryant, Esq., Stoke Park, Slough (gardener, 

 Mr. David Kemp), for a specimen of Oncidium ornithorhynchum 

 with forty-five spikes. 



Other Exhibits. 



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

 (gardener, Mr. E. Johnson), exhibited an almost spotless form 

 of Cattleya granulosa, a small form of Cattleya bicolor with a 

 slate-blue lip, and a cut spike of a good form of Laslia elegans. 



Messrs. Pitcher & Manda, Hextable, Swanley, Kent, staged a 

 group of Cypripediums, &c. 



W. C. Clark, Esq., Orleans House, Aigburth Drive, Liverpool, 

 sent a large coloured crayon drawing of a magnificent plant of a 

 light-coloured form of Cattleya Hardyana with ten flowers which 

 bloomed in the collection of Eeginald Young, Esq., Fringilla 

 Sefton Park, Liverpool. 



C. K. Wild, Esq., Hampstead Heath (gardener, Mr. E. 

 Pallant), exhibited Stanhopea Wardii aurea. 



W. Wells, Esq., Broomfield, Sale, Manchester, sent a flower 

 of Cattleya aurea marmorata, which had previously been ex- 

 hibited from Lord Eothschild's collection. 



