ORCHID COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 18. 



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Orchid Committee, October 18, 1892. 



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

 members present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver Banhsian Medal. 



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

 good group of Orchids, in which were fine specimens of about 

 twenty species and varieties of Cypripedium, some fine Odonto- 

 glossums and Dendrobiuins, and Bollea Patini, Ccelogyne Mas- 

 sangeana, Cymbidium giganteum, Pleione Wallichiana, P. 

 lagenaria, Oncidium Papilio Eckhardtii, Epidendrum Cooper- 

 ianum, &c. 



Bronze Banksian Medal. 

 To Philip Crowley, Esq., Waddon House, Croydon (gardener. 

 Mr. King), for a group of Orchids, in which the chief features were 

 some fine specimens of Odontoglossum grande and four plants 

 of Vanda Kimballiana, V. tricolor, and a fine variety of the 

 handsome old Cymbidium giganteum. 



Other Exhibits. 



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

 Mr. W. Holmes), sent a cut spike of the true Cattleya Massa- 

 iana, one of C. aurea, and a spike of a hybrid Cypripedium 

 (C. caudatum $ x C. Ainsworthii £) under the name C. Hardy - 

 anum x ; but the Committee considered it to be identical with 

 C. macrochilum x,and wished to see it again for comparison 

 with that variety. 



Messrs. F. Sander & Co., St. Albans, sent some rare Orchids, 

 among which were Cattleya Brymeriana, C. aurea chrysotoxa, 

 Platyclinis Cobbiana, several Masdevallias, and Ccelogyne 

 fuscescens. 



Messrs. Linden (l'Horticulture Internationale), Pare Leopold, 

 Brussels, sent the yellow Odontoglossum Insleayi Lindeni, 

 which, however, had suffered so much on the journey that it 

 was impossible to accurately judge of its merits. 



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

 (gardener, Mr. R. Johnson), showed a fine spike of a good form 

 of Cattleya aurea. 



