DECEMBER, 1922.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 379: 
~ ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
November 14th, 1922. 
| | amaecelee of the Orchid Committee present: Sir Jeremiah Colman, 
Bart. (in the chair), Messrs. Jas. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Rev. J. Cromble- 
holme, H. T. Pitt, Fred. K. Sander, Fred. J. Hanbury, Pantia Ralli, 
E. R. Ashton, T. Armstrong, S. Flory, J. E. Shill, J. Wilson Potter, C. 
H. Curtis, and Gurney Wilson. 
AWARDS oF Merir. 
Brassocattleya William Pitt (Be. Digbyano-Warneri x C. Octave 
Doin) ; from H. T. Pitt, Esq., Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood). A very 
pleasing result in which the two large flowers were of a uniform bright 
rose-pink colour, the expansive labellum deeply fringed with a yellowish 
throat and disc. 
Cypripedium Gwen Dixon; from Leonard Dixon, Esq., Pitlochrie, St. 
Albans. A delightful flower of the albino section. The tall dorsal sepal 
pure-white, except for a small green area at the base, the petals and ventral 
sepal light yellowish-green, and the neatly formed labellum of bright 
greenish-yellow. The parentage is unrecorded, but it was obtained by 
crossing a Cypripedium known in the Walton Grange collection as Golden 
Cypripedium Linda (Bianca X Moonbeam); from Messrs. Cowan & Co. 
Although by no means a large flower, this novelty has peculiar attractions, 
being exceedingly well formed and almost globular in shape. The dorsal 
sepal white, with a greenish-yellow base, and faintly marked with dotted 
lines ; sepals and lip greenish, stained with yellow. 
Cattleya Our Prince var. aurea (aurea X King George); from Messrs. 
Flory and Black. A handsome hybrid having the sepals and broad petals 
of clear golden-yellow, the labellum reddish-crimson with aurea-like 
markings of reddish-crimson, the stiff and erect petals giving a_ fine 
appearance. 
Brassocattleya Alma, Charlesworth’s var. (Bc. Mrs. J. Leemann x C. 
Octave Doin); from Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. A beautiful result in 
which the flowers are large, delicately-coloured with creamy-yellow, the 
immense labellum fringed, and tinged with rose on the margin. 
Baron Bruno Schréder, Englefield Green, Surrey, was awarded a 
Silver-gilt Flora Medal, with a Silver-gilt Lindley Medal to his grower, Mr. 
J. E. Shill, for a superb group of Calanthe Harrisii. Upwards of 130 
8rand specimen plants were staged, and the tall, erect spikes, mostly 
Carrying as many as fifty flowers and buds, made a very imposing sight. 
Some of the bulbs had produced three spikes, but only one had been 
allowed to develope, the flowers in every example being of thick texture and 
pure white. 
