EXTRACTS OF PROCEEDINGS. 
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October 15 , 1878 . 
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 
Colonel R. Trevor Clarke, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and signed. 
Elections .—W. Bradley, A. Campbell, J. Cocker, Mrs. 
Cockerell, L. B. Lamb, E. J. Laumonier, R. J. Maxwell, Mr. 
T. J. Mills, E. J. Poynter, R.A., and R. Sturgis. 
The Assistant Secretary read the awards of the Fruit and 
Floral Committees and directed attention to the splendid collec¬ 
tion of dwarf hardy ornamental evergreens displayed by Messrs. 
James Veitch and Sons, in the Vestibule, embracing nearly 
a hundred varieties—the most complete exhibition of the kind 
that had ever been seen. Mr. Jennings also alluded to the fine 
specimen of Vanda ccerulea, bearing 87 flowers upon five spikes, 
shown by Mr. W. Smith (gardener to C. Lane, Esq.), and said 
that he had met with this Orchid on the Khassia Hills, at an 
altitude of about 4,000 feet, where it seems to delight in full 
exposure to the sun ; it is very local, and is often found growing 
on the decaying stumps of dead trees. V. ccerulea , together 
with V. cristata and V. Cathcartii, will take cooler treatment than 
the Vandas of the Straits and Java. He also remarked upon 
the fine collections of Orchids exhibited by Messrs. Bull, Veitch, 
and Williams, amongst which were several new and interesting 
specimens, Phalcenopsis esmeralda , from Cochin China, quite 
unlike any other species, with an upright spike of pretty rosy 
.flowers. P. violacea, exhibited for the first time in flower; 
the spike was at present a small one, but doubtless when 
the plant had become established, it would prove a valuable 
acquisition. 
Alluding to the labours of Messrs. Dominy, Seden, and others, 
whose experiments in effecting the hybridization of Orchids 
were now giving such wonderful results, Mr. Jennings said, 
that at this meeting there were no less than four new 
hybrid Orchids, Cypripedium vexillarium, with a very broad 
and noble upper sepal—a cross between C. Farreanum and 
C. barbatmn; Cypripedium albo purpurea , between x C. Dominii 
and C. Schlimii; Cypripedium marmarophyllum , between 
C. Hookeri and C. bdrbatum, with very handsome foliage; 
and Cattleya Mastersonii, a cross between a seedling and 
