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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Orchid Committee, June 14, 1898. 
Harry J. Yeitch, Esq., in the Chair, and seventeen members 
present. 
Awards Recommended:— 
Silver Flora Medal. 
To Messrs. Jas. Yeitch, Chelsea, for a fine group of Orchids. 
To Messrs. Stanley Mobbs & Ashton, Southgate, for a group 
of Orchids. 
Silver Banhsian Medal. 
To Leopold de Rothschild, Esq., Gunnersbury House (gr. 
Mr. Jas. Hudson), for a noble specimen of Laslia purpurata with 
thirty-three flowers, grown from a portion of a plant purchased 
by Mr. Hudson’s father in 1861. 
To Messrs. Hugh Low, Bush Hill Park, for a plant of 
Odontoglossum crispum named ‘ Prince of Wales.’ The finest 
of the large white type. 
First-class Certificate. 
To Odontoglossum crispum ‘ Prince of Wales ’ (votes, unani¬ 
mous), from Messrs. Hugh Low. (Figs. 51 and 52.) 
To Laelio-Cattleya x ‘ Euaora ’ (Aphrodite) splendens (votes, 
unanimous), from Messrs. Jas. Yeitch. Flowers large; light 
rose ; lip purplish crimson. 
To Laelio Cattleya x ‘ Duke of York ’ (L.-C. x elegans x C. 
x Brymeriana) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. F. Sander, St. 
Albans. Flowers rose-colour; lip rose-purple; in form re¬ 
sembling Cattleya x ‘ Victoria Regina.’ 
Award of Merit. 
To Laelia purpurata Ernestii (votes, unanimous), from R. I. 
Measures, Esq., Camberwell (gr. Mr. H. J. Chapman). Flowers 
white with a slight yellow shade; lip with narrow chocolate 
lines and pale rose tint on the disc. 
To Scuticaria Hadwenii (votes, unanimous), from Sir 
Frederick Wigan, Bart., Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. W. H. 
Young). A fine variety with seven flowers was shown. 
To Cattleya Mossise Reineckiana ‘ Madonna ’ (votes, 12 for, 
