214 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
RICHMOND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
THE Annual Show of this Society in the Old Deer Park was on this 
occasion extended over two days—June 27th and 28th—and held in 
conjunction with a meeting of the R.H.S., as already pointed out, and 
brought together a fine lot of showy Orchids. 
Prizes were offered for the best six specimen Orchids, and H. Little, 
Esq., Baronshalt, Twickenham (gr. Mr. Howard), was first, his group 
containing a very fine example of Vanda teres bearing about two dozen 
racemes, a good V. tricolor, a fine Cattleya Mendelii with six racemes and 
eighteen flowers, Lelia purpurata, L. tenebrosa and Thunia Marshalliana. 
Sir F. Wigan, Bart., Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. Young), was 
adjudged second, with a superb example of Phalznopsis amabilis bearing 
two racemes, Cypripedium Lawrenceanum with sixteen flowers, a fine 
Cattleya Warscewiczii, Lelia tenebrosa with seven racemes, a well-flowered 
clump of Epidendrum vitellinum, and E. prismatocarpum with six racemes. 
Three very fine groups were staged, not for competition, and to each a 
Silver-gilt Medal was awarded. 
The group exhibited by Sir Frederick Wigan was superb, having a 
frontage of about eighteen feet, and contained many choice things. Among — 
the more noteworthy were Lzlio-cattleya x Wiganiz (L.-c. X Gottoiana 
x C. Mossiz), in which shades of purple predominated, and var. aurea, a 
lighter form with buff sepals; L.-c. x Canhamiana marginata bearing two 
racemes and seven flowers, with a broad white margin round the richly- 
coloured lip; L.-c. x Henry Greenwood superba, a splendid form; L.-c. 
x Aphrodite, Clare Lawn var., equally handsome; the rare Cattleya 
Schroederz, C. Forbesii, C. Gaskelliana albescens, C. Warneri, C. X Grayz 
(granulosa X velutina), quite intermediate in character; Lelia Digbyana, 
two plants of L. majalis, several L. tenebrosa; fine examples of Sobralia 
macrantha, S. m. Kienastiana, and S. X Veitchii aurea, Aérides crassifolium, 
a noble specimen of Ccelogyne aspersa bearing three racemes, Epidendrum 
Medusz, Dendrobium Dearei, Cypripedium x orphanum, Epidendrum atro- 
purpureum, Odontoglossums, Masdevallias, Angreecum falcatum, and other 
interesting things. 
H. Little, Esq., also staged a very fine group, of some fifteen feet frontage, 
containing some fine specimens of Cymbidium Lowianum, Oncidium 
Marshallianum, varicosum, and Gardneri, some brilliant Cattleyas and 
Lelias, one form of L. tenebrosa being very bright in colour, some nice 
pieces of Odontoglossum citrosmum and others, Lzlio-cattleya x Wiganiz 
with marbled sepals and petals, the rare Maxillaria Houtteana with about 
ten flowers, some good Cypripediums, &c. 
Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., Enfield, staged a very pretty group opposite 
