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lxxxiv [84] [Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society|PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY]].

First-class Certificate.

To Cypripedium × Beekmanii (parentage uncertain, votes unanimous),
from R. Briggs-Bury, Esq., Accrington (gr. Mr. Wilkinson). A massive
flower, dorsal sepal emerald-green with white margin and many chocolate-
purple spots. Petals and lip yellowish, marked and tinged with purple.
(Fig. 119.)

[black and white illustration]
Fig. 119.—CYPRIPEDOIUM × BEEKMANII. (Journal of Horticulture.)

Award of Merit.

To Cymbidium × Ballianium (eburneum x Mastersii) (votes, unanimous),
from Captain Holford, C.I.E., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander).
Flowers as large as those of C. eburneum, but with more on a spike, as in
C. Mastersii; white with yellow crest to the lip. The spike of the plant
shown had four flowers.

To Cymbidium Wilsoni (votes, 11 for, 2 against), from Messrs. Jas.
Veitch, Chelsea. A remarkable plant, in habit like a pigmy C. gigantum,
but with flowers as large as that species and closely allied to it; the
scape, however, is more slender and the labellum less downy; sepals and