214 THE. ORCHID REVIEW. | Juty, 1914. 
eal SOCIETIES. ; ) 
RoyaL HORTICULTURAL. 
HE meeting following the Chelsea Show was held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on June 3rd, 
when there was a good display of Orchids, and seven medals were awarded. 
About a dozen plants were entered to go before the Committee, but no 
award was made. ; 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chait), 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (Hon. Sec.), Gurney Wilson, de Barri Crawshay, W. 
Bolton, R. A. Rolfe, F. Sander, J. Wilson Potter, T. Armstrong, 4° 
McBean, W. Cobb, J. Charlesworth, W. H. Hatcher, J. E. Shill, C. H. 
“ Curtis, A. Dye, E. H. Davidson, $. W. Flory, Sir Harry J. Veitch, and 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. 
fee Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), staged 
an interesting and varied group, to which a Silver Flora Medal was 
awarded. It contained several good Cattleyas and Lzliocattleyas, . 
graceful Oncidium phymatochilum and pulchellum, good examples 0 
Miltonia vexillaria and Bleuana, two well-flowered Masdevallia muscosa, 
Chondrorhyncha _Chestertonii, Cymbidium Sappho (Lowianum * 
’Ansonii), raised in the collection, Anguloa Clowesii and Rucker, 
Maxillaria tenuifolia, Gongora galeata, several interesting Bulbophyllums, 
good forms of Odontoglossum crispum, percultum, Wiganianum, Edwardil, 
a few brightly-coloured Odontiodas, and other good things. 
G. W. Bird, Esq., Manor House, West Wickham (gr. Mr. per! 
sent Odontoglossum armainvillierense Manor House var., a fine, pie 
blotched form, and Odontioda Phyllis (Odm. Lambeauianum * _ 
Bradshawiz), prettily marked with red on a cream ground, and the lip rosé 
with red blotches. oe 
W. P. Burkinshaw, Esq., The West Hill, Hessle, E. Yorks (gt. ig 
Barker), sent Brassocattleya Rex (C. Rex x B. Digbyana), a very rag 
and interesting hybrid, bearing two large greenish flowers most like 
Brassavola parent in size and shape. oa 
Col. S_R. Clarke, C.B., Borde Hill, Cuckfield, showed Odonteg a 
Ethelreda Borde Hill var. (triumphans x Edwardii) with dark blac 
purple flowers. shill» 
Baron Bruno Schréder, The Dell, Englefield Green (gr- Mr. fas 
showed Odontoglossum crispum The Dell Sunrise, a remarkable Wie 
having very round white flowers of great substance, the petals Ww! 
narrow purple margin, and the lip reduced in size. Mr. 
R. G. Thwaites, Esgq., Chessington, Streatham Hill (@% ~~ 
