May, 1923.) THE ORCHID REVIEW, 155 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
: March 27th, 1923. 
EMBERS of the Orchid Committee present :—C. J. Lucas, Esq. (in 
the chair), Messrs. Jas. O’Brien (hon. sec.), F. J. Hanbury, Richd. 
G. Thwaites, S. W. Flory, A. Dye, H. G. Alexander, Fred. K. Sander, 
Gurney Wilson, E. R. Ashton, H. T. Pitt, H. H. Smith, A. McBean, J. E. 
Shill, T. Armstrong, W. J. Kaye, and the Hon. Henry D. McLaren. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
Odontoglossum Aurora var. Rajah (Lambeauianum x Rossii), from 
Messrs. Sanders. This neat little plant carried a spike of three flowers, 
closely resembling the latter parent in the formation of the segments, the 
sepals and petals almost covered with chocolate-red blotches, the broad 
labellum white, flushed and streaked with pale carmine. 
Leeliocattleya Nora (C. Nortia X Lc. Dominiana), from Messrs. Cowan 
& Co. An excellent flower of model shape, the broadly formed sepals and 
petals of soft rosy-mauve colour, the almost orbicular labellum flatly 
displayed and rich ruby-crimson in colour. 
Cattleya suavior, Low’s var. (intermedia Aquinii X Mendelii plumosay 
from Messrs. Stuart Low & Co. A remarkable result in which the well- 
known peloriate characters of the former parent are perpetuated in a 
stronger degree, possibly because the Mendelii was a variety having purple 
feathering on the petals. The hybrid carried a single flower, the petals 
resembling the labellum by having more than half their surface coloured 
with purple. 
GROUPS. 
Messrs. Cowan & Co. were awarded a Silver Flora Medal for an 
excellent exhibit of Cymbidium hybrids, all being finely cultivated, and 
with tall erect spikes in the case of those having a large proportion of 
insigne in the parentage. They included Sybil, of a pleasing yellow colour, 
Redstart, of rose-pink Gottianum, ivory-white, Castor, cream coloured, and 
Alexanderi, with crimson spotting on the lip. Others worthy of mention 
were President Wilson, Thrush, Dryad and Vesta. An interesting species 
that is considered a difficult subject to cultivate was seen in Cymbidium 
Devonianum, which carried a finely developed pendulous spike. Hybrids 
of C. insigne are now so popular that the older type of C. Lowianum is not 
often seen, hence the fine specimen of this latter species made a pleasing 
contrast. 
Messrs. Sanders received a Silver Flora Medal for an interesting group 
containing in the centre Leliocattleya Rheims, with two very large flowers, 
also Lc. Orange Blossom, obtained by crossing Le. Elinor X Le. Trimyra. 
Cattleyas included the white Avalanche, and another called Dawn, with 
