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Sepr.-Ocr., 1918.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. ait 
worth & Co. Its appearance is interesting, for all the other seedlings of 
the batch have had a purple blotch of varying size on the front of the lip. 
LELIOCATTLEYA APPAM (Lc. Scylla x C. Dowiana aurea).—A brilliantly- 
coloured hybrid, bearing a spike of three well-shaped flowers, the sepals and 
petals deep golden yellow, and the lip ruby purple, with some orange- 
coloured lines on the disc. Exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. 
GENERAL EXHIBITS. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, staged a choice group, to 
which a Silver Flora Medal was awarded. It contained several fine forms 
of Leliocattleya Appam, varying from light yellow to orange in the sepals 
and petals, and from rose-purple to claret in the lip, Le. Serbia and Jocasta, 
Miltonia vexillaria and var. Queen Alexandra, Odontioda Madeline and 
Euterpe, Odontoglossum crispum xanthotes, O. Rolfe, and others. 
Messrs. Stuart Low & Co., Jarvisbrook, were awarded a Silver Flora 
Medal for a fine group, including many well-bloomed Cattleya Warscewiczii 
one of them bearing a spike of as many as eight fine blooms, some good C, 
Dowiana aurea and C. Gaskelliana, a fine, Dendrobium chrysanthum, 
Maxillaria nigrescens, Lzeliocattleya Dominiana, and many others. 
Messrs. Sanders, St. Albans, showed Cattleya Hardyana alba Marshal 
Foch, a charming thing, with pure white sepals and petals, and a ruby- 
crimson lip with two yellow blotches and some yellow veining on the disc. 
At the meeting held on August 27th there was a fine display, and the 
awards consisted of one First-class Certificate, two Awards of Merit, one 
Certificate of Appreciation, and three Medals. 
Orchid Committee present :—Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. (in the chair), 
J. O'Brien (hon. sec.), C. J. Lucas, W. H. White, W. Bolton, Walter Cobb, 
J. Charlesworth, F. K. Sander, J. E. Shill, R. G. Thwaites, J. W. Potter, 
Sit Harry J. Veitch, C. H. Curtis, S. W. Flory, and R. A. Rolfe. 
FirsT-CLAsS CERTIFICATE. 
CATTLEyA HaRpYaNA ALBA PRESIDENT WiLSON (Dowiana aurea 
Warscewiczii, white).—A magnificent variety, the sepals and petals being 
i white and of excellent shape, and the lip crimson-purple, with yellow 
R = the disc, and a pair of chrome yellow blotches in the throat. 
thibited by Messrs. Flory & Black, Slough. 
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Car, Awarps OF MERIT. 
sation ‘ENEAS (Venus x Dowiana aurea). 
It chia ng C. Dowiana aurea, which is represente _ 
eh ae in having rather smaller petals, these and the ae s ; 
ag . a and the lip purple crimson, with golden yellow veining on the 
. ibited by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. ; 
EYA IRIs ANSALDO’s VAR. (bicolor x Dowiana 
__A brilliant hybrid, most 
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being 
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