Sept.-Ocr., 1919.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 151 
SOC@e LIES. Es 
RoyaL HORTICULTURAL. , 
MEETING of the Society was held at the London Scottish Drill Hall, 
Buckingham Gate, Westminster, on July ist, a week after the 
Chelsea meeting on behalf of the War Relief Fund, and produced a rather 
small display of choice Orchids, only one medal being awarded in addition 
to the three certificates mentioned below. 
Orchid committee present: Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. (in the Chair), 
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Ag O’Brien (hon. sec.), Arthur Dye, W. Bolton, C. J. Lucas, S. W. Flory, 
Pantia Ralli, F. K. Sander, Sir Harry J. Veitch, C. H. Curtis, and 
R. A. Rolfe. 
FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATE. 
Disa BLACKII GRANDIFLORA (grandiflora X Luna).—A very large and 
handsome variety, bearing an inflorescence of six flowers, with deep rose- 
coloured lateral sepals, and the galea blush white, more or less marked and 
spotted with rosy crimson. Exhibited by Messrs. Flory & Black. 
AWARD OF MERIT. 
THUNIA GATTONENSIS (Bensonize Winniana X Majoriana).—A handsome 
thing, bearing drooping sprays of light rosy-lilac flowers, and the fringed 
lip light rosy purple in front, with prominent yellow papilla on the disc. 
Exhibited by Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. 
CULTURAL COMMENDATION. 
AERIDES ODORATUM ALBUM.—To Mr. J. Collier, gardener to Sir Jeremiah 
Colman, Bart., for a well-grown plant bearing a long spike of its pure white 
flowers. 3 
GENERAL EXuIBITs. 
Dr. Miguel Lacroze, Roehampton (gr. Miss Robertson), sent Leelio- 
cattleya luminosa Bryndir var., with richly-coloured flowers, and Odonto- 
glossum La Paz, an interesting plant of the Black Prince type. 
H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), sent good 
examples of Cypripedium St. Alban (Harrisianum X Antigone), and two 
finely-grown specimens of the graceful Dendrochilum filiforme, with an 
aggregate of 89 spikes, and several thousand flowers. 
Messrs. Sanders, St. Albans, were awarded a Silver Banksian Medal for 
an interesting little group, including two beautiful examples of Miltonia 
Sander, Dendrobium Thwaitesie Veitch’s var., Odontoglossum chryseum 
(Pescatorei X eximillus), O. Triumph (triumphans X eximium), a fine and 
richly-coloured hybrid, a very beautiful variety of O. Fascinator, and 
several other good Odontoglossums and Odontiodas. : 
