146 THE ORCHID REVIEW. | May, 1914. 
like a plain white O. crispum of good shape, with a trace of O. luteo- 
purpureum in the lip, and another had the ground colour of the lip clear 
yellow, with a tinge of the same colour in the sepals and petals, thus 
showing a reversion to the ground colour of O. luteopurpureum (0.R., xxi. 
p- 139). In the handsome form here figured the influence of O. armain- 
villierense, and of the grandparent, O. Pescatorei, are very marked, 
especially in the details of the lip and column. It is a gem of the first water. 
eal SOCIETIES. ES 
RoyaLt HorRTICULTURAL. 
as first meeting of the month was held at the Royal Horticultural 
Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on April 7th, and produced a 
very fine display of Orchids, the awards consisting of seven medals, two First- 
class Certificates, three Awards of Merit, and one Cultural Commendation. 
Orchid Committee present :—J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
and Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), H. J. Chapman, F. Sander, R. G. 
Thwaites, F. J. Hanbury, F. M. Ogilvie, T. Armstrong, A. McBean, J. 
Charlesworth, J. Cypher, W. H. Hatcher, H. G. Alexander, A. Dye, E. H. 
Davidson, W. H. White, W. Bolton, Gurney Wilson, R. A. Rolfe, and Sit 
Harry J. Veitch. 
Mrs. Norman Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam (gr. Mr. H. J. Chapman), 
received a Silver Flora Medal for a choice group of Odontiodas and 
‘Odontoglossums raised in the collection, noteworthy among them being 
‘Odontioda oakwoodiensis Futurist, well blotched with red on a white 
ground and broadly margined with violet, O. Sibyl purpureum, claret-red 
with white markings, O. Antonio (see New Hybrids, p. 158), O. Doris, 0. 
Bradshawiz Cookson’s var., Odontoglossum crispum Pheebe, having the 
flower almost entirely dark claret-coloured, and two very distinct forms 
of O. Titania, one being dark the other mostly yellow, and others. 
Lt.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. H. & 
Alexander), also received a Silver Flora Medal for a choice group, including 
two beautiful specimens of Cattleya Schroederze The Baron, C. Magnet 
(Mossi Xx Whitei), Sophrocatlelia Sunloch (L.-c. Goldfinch x $-¢+l 
Dane), reddish orange with some veining on the lip, the handsome 
Brassocattleya The King, Cymbidium Parishii var. Sanderz bearing tw? 
fine spikes of blush-white flowers, with red-blotches on the lip, and others- 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham (gr. Mr. Hannington), 
received a Silver Banksian Medal for a small group, including the brilliant 
Sophrocattleya Thwaitesii, and a few good hybrid Odontoglossums as 
Dendrobiums. 
