DECEMBER, 1914.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 363 
Reise SOCIETIES. Ary | 
RoyaL HORTICULTURAL. 
MEETING of the Society was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on November 3rd last, when there 
was a rather small display of Orchids, and the awards consisted of one 
First-class Certificate, four Awards of Merit, and three medals. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), R. A. Rolfe, F. M. Ogilvie, T. Armstrong, 
W. Cobb, J. Charlesworth, J. Cypher, J. E. Shill, S. W. Flory, W. P- 
Bound, H. G. Alexander, A. Dye, W. H. White, E. H. Davidson, W. 
Bolton, Gurney Wilson, De B. Crawshay, Sir Harry J. Veitch, and Sir 
_. Jeremiah Colman, Bart. 
W. R. Lee, Esq., Plumpton Hall, Heywood (gr. Mr. Branch), sent 
Odontioda Schroederi Lee’s var. (O. Bradshawie x Odm. crispum), a 
particularly fine form, having broad, crimson-red sepals and petals, margined 
and tipped with lilac. 
E. Whiteaway, Esq., Feltham Lodge, Feltham (gr. Mr. J. Tait), sent a 
flower of Brassocatlelia Gladys (C. x bicolor x B.-l. Veitchii), most 
resembling the latter. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, staged a choice group, 
including some good forms of Cattleya Fabia, C. Hybla (Iris X Triane), 
a handsome form most resembling the latter, a fine C. Portia, C. Enid, C. 
Antiope, C. Phrygia with six flowers, and others, some fine forms of Lelio- 
cattleya Neleus, L.-c. Thyone, a dark form of Odontioda Brewii, O. Wilsonu, 
and O. Madeline, Odontoglossum Aireworth, O. hibernicum, Paphinia 
cristata with a twin-flowered scape, Oncidium pretextum, Dendrobium 
Dearei, Cypripedium Lord Ossulston, and _ others (Silver Flora 
Medal). — 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, staged a fine group, containing some 
good examples of Cattleya Fabia, with C. Hardyana picturata, Mantinn, 
Acis (Maronii Xx Dowiana aurea), Brownii, Black-Prince, and Sylvia, 
Brassia longissima, Coelogyne Mooreana and brunnea, the latter with six 
racemes, Saccolabium acutifolium with ten corymbs of flowers, Liparis 
longipes, Brassocattleya Siren, Odontonia MacNabiana, Odontoglossum 
percultum, Cypripedium Corsair (Niobe X nitens), Germaine Opoix, 
Fairrieanum, and others (Silver Flora Medal). 
Messrs. Stuart Low & Co., Jarvisbrook, Sussex, staged a showy group, 
including some good forms of Leliocattleya luminosa, L.-c. eximia with 
six flowers, L.-c. Haroldiana Xx Cattleya F. W. Wigan, having yellow 
sepals and petals, more or less suffused and streaked with purple, and the 
