210 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
A MEETING of the Royal Horticultural Society was held at the Drill Hall, 
James Street, Westminster, on Whit Tuesday, June 5th, when a number 
of interesting Orchids were staged, though both exhibitors and visitors were 
fewer than usual, and the former were almost entirely limited to amateurs. 
The members of the. Orchid Committee: present were: H. J. Veitch, Esq. 
(in the chair), H. J. Chapman, W. Cobb, J. Colman, De B. Crawshay, 
J. Douglas, E. Hill, H. Little, H. T. Pitt, ]..W. Potter, F. Sander, H. A. 
Tracy, W. H. White, W. H. Young, and J. O’Brien (hon. sec.). 
Sir F.. Wigan; Clare Lawn,- East Sheen (gr. Mr..Young) staged a most 
excellent group, both as to quality and culture, which gained a Silver Flora - 
Medal. It contained a fine series of the Cattleya group, including two 
examples of C. Warneri—one with twelve flowers, C. Mossize with about 
twice as many, a good C. M. Reineckeana, some good C. Mendelii, C. X 
Prince of Wales, Lelia. tenebrosa with nine flowers, L. Digbyana, anda 
dark L. purpurata, four good ‘Lelio- cattleya X eximia, Thunia Marshalliana 
and alba, Aérides Fieldingii, some good Phalznopsis amabilis, P. speciosa 
Imperatrix, and ‘others, Dendrobium Farmeri, D. x chlorostele Owenianum, 
some good Odontoglossum crispum, a form of Cypripedium x_Kerchove- 
anum called W. H. Young, and other fine species, also a nice little plant of 
Eria extinctoria bearing ten flowers. An Award of Merit was given to 
Cypripedium xX Godefroyz, Wigan’s var., a large, white, slightly-spotted 
form, and Botanical Certificates to the four following: Phalzenopsis Manni, 
P. fuscata, Brassia maculata, and Dendrobium stuposum. 
H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), also staged a 
fine group, to which a Silver Banksian Medal was given. It contained some 
good Odontoglossums, among which O. xX excellens, Rosslyn var., was 
conspicuous, the spike terminating with a pair of confluent flowers, Miltonia 
Roezlii, and some good M. vexillaria, some good Cattleyas, Lelia Digbyana, 
tenebrosa, and purpurata, Dendrobium Dearei, Promenza xanthina, two 
good Pescatorea Klabochorum, Zygopetalum Burtii, and other showy 
species. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, ue Burtord, Dorking (gr. Mr. White), showed 
a remarkable hybrid derived from D. pulchellum (Dalhouseanum) ¢ and 
D. nobile ¢, called D. x Dalhou-nobile, to which an Award of Merit was 
given. The flower was large, approaching the seed parent in shape, but 
more like D. nobile in colour: the growth also most resembled the former. 
It was raised in the collection of R. Brooman White, Esq. 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Cooke), sent 
Odontoglossum xX _ elegantius, O. crispum Cecile de Rochfort, O. X = 
Andersonianum candidum, and QO, citrosmum rosefieldiense, 
