CXXX PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
to Messrs. Barr and Sugden, for collection of Daffodils; and 
to Mr. J. Woodbridge, gardener to tlie Duke of Northumberland, 
for specimen in flower of Cyrtopodium punctatum. 
The Exhibition upon this occasion was of more than ordinary 
interest; perhaps never before had so extensive a collection of 
Amaryllis been got together ; from Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons 
came a group of three hundred unnamed seedlings; and 
from Mr. Williams a smaller collection of choice varieties. 
The Prizes offered by an Amateur for the best new light and 
dark seedlings were for competition, but did not produce any 
novelties ; the only specimen considered worthy of a prize 
was a variety named u Thomas Speed” raised at Chats worth ; 
a rich scarlet, medium size, fine form, and with six flowers 
to the truss, with a white instead of the usual green centre, 
and a crimson ring round the base of the stamens. Mr. Little 
also exhibited six very choice seedling Amaryllis. 
Orchids were verj^ strong. Sir Trevor Lawrence sending a 
splendid group, which included a grand specimen of Masdevallia 
Harry ana ; also Phalcenopsis Schilleriana , Dendrobiums,Devonianum , 
Jamesianum , thyrsiflorum and crassinode , Oncidium concolor , 
Cymbidium Lowianum, and many others. 
In Mr. Bull’s group were several very fine Cypripediums, 
Odontoglossums, and Masdevallias; Cymbidium eburneum , JDendro- 
bium Falconeri. 
Mr. Veitch showed the new Dendrobium Brymerianum, from 
Burmah, &c., with its remarkably fine fringed labellum, and 
Mr. Williams some very large plants of Vandas tricolor , 
insignes and suavis. 
Mr. Jennings, in addressing the Meeting, directed attention 
to a most complete group of cut Hellebores, exhibited by Mr. 
Barr, comprising examples of nearly all the varieties in the 
second section of Mr. Baker’s monograph of Helleborus, viz., 
those without leaves below the inflorescence, called by him 
“ Acaules,” and consisting of three distinct species, viz., H. 
niger, H. viridis , and H. orientalis. The first of these, the well 
known Christmas rose, was not then in bloom, but of the other 
two species there were innumerable varieties which so blend 
into each other that identification is rendered most difficult. 
H. viridis was a most interesting species, but none of its 
varieties were valued for gardening purposes, the flowers not 
