172 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
THE TEMPLE SHOW. 
THE Society's great Annual Show was held, as usual, in the Inner Temple 
Gardens, Thames Embankment, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 
May 23rd to 25th. The weather on the opening day was very showery, 
which had some influence on the attendance, though the tents were 
inconveniently crowded at times. The Queen of Sweden visited the show 
on the opening day, ard H.R.H. the Prince of Wales on the following day. 
The Orchid exhibits were numerous, and in excellent condition, the 
general opinion being that many of the plants were above the average in 
quality. In some cases more space could have been filled had it been 
available, but if curtailment leads to greater selection being practised, it is Ce 
not an unmixed evil, though cases of overcrowding were again not altogether 
absent. 
The Orchid Committee was represented as follows :—H. J. Veitch, Esq., 
in the Chair, and Messrs. H. J. Chapman, W. Cobb, J. Colman, De B. 
Crawshay, J. Douglas, J. G. Fowler, J. T. Gabriel, E. Hill, A. Hislop, J. 
Jaques, W. B. Latham, G. W. Law-Schofield, H. Little, E. V. Low, H. T. 
Pitt, T. Rochford, F. J. Thorne, H. A. Tracy, R. B. White, C. Winn, W. 
H. Young, and J. O’Brien (Hon. Sec.). 
The group staged by the President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 
Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. White), was again the premier one, and most 
effectively arranged. It contained about 150 distinct kinds, many of the 
plants being models of good culture, and as duplication of exhibits was 
largely avoided it was full of interest from end to end. It was specially 
staged as “‘ Not for competition.’ To ‘describe such an exhibit in detail is 
obviously impossible with the space at command, and we have, therefore, 
omitted many of those strongly represented in other groups. Epidendrum 
radicans was represented by a splendid plant bearing fifteen fine sprays of 
flowers, other members of the genus being E. Endresii, E. x Endresio- 
Wallisii, and E. X Berkeleyi. Aérides Houlletianum carried three beautiful 
racemes. Dendrobiums were represented by the rare D. Jerdonianum, a charm- 
ing plant of D. linguzforme, D. Victoria-Regina, D. Johannis, D. x Nestor, 
and D. atroviolaceum. Of the Ancectochilus group we noted A. concinnus, 
Rollissoni, xanthophyllus, Hemaria Dawsoniana, and Macodes Petola. 
Our notes comprise that rare little gem, Capanemia uliginosa, the remark- 
able Cirrhopetalum Collettii, the brilliant Cochlioda Neetzliana, Ccelogyne 
Dayana, Cymbidium madidum and tigrinum, Cypripedium Druryi, C. x 
Chamberlaino-insigne, C. x Youngianum, Epicattleya x radiato-Bowring- 
iana, Epiphronitis x Veitchii, Lycaste cruenta, Masdevallia x Courtauld. 
jana, Estrade, ignea, O’Brieniana, X Shuttryana Chamberlainii, and 
xanthina, Maxillaria Houtteana, Microstylis Scottii, Odontoglossum X 
