138 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JUNE, 1917. 
PRELIMINARY COMMENDATION. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM PRESIDENT WILSON.—A promising seedling, 
having a flower of good shape, and the broad. sepals and petals claret-red 
with white margin and tips. Exhibited by Messrs. Armstrong & Brown. 
GENERAL EXHIBITS. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park (gr. Mr. J. Collier), staged 
a few choice plants, including Odontoglossum Thompsonianum pallidum, 
bearing a spike of sixteen white flowers, with a few small purple blotches 
on the segments, and Dendrobium illustre Bartelsianum, a_ beautiful 
variety, bearing a raceme of ten flowers, with lighter-coloured blotches than 
the one certificated, and somewhat broken up by paler, radiating lines. 
Leonard Dixon, Esq., Pitlochrie, St. Albans, showed Odontioda 
Charlesworthii Pitlochrie var., bearing two spikes of eighteen and nineteen 
dark red flowers, with a somewhat lighter lip. 
William Bolton, Esq., Wilderspool, Warrington, showed a particularly 
fine piece of Dendrobium Wardianum giganteum, from a plant imported 
three years ago. 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, staged a choice group, 
including the chaste Cattleya Skinneri alba with 14 flowers, Miltonia 
vexillaria G. D. Owen, M. Venus, M. Phalenopsis, and Bleuana, Odonto- 
glossum crispum xanthotes, O. pomerens xanthotes, O. Kegeljanii, and 
others, a brilliant form of Sophronitis grandiflora with orange-scarlet 
flowers, a number of brilliant Odontiodas, Leliocattleya Canhamiana 
splendens, pure white, with an intense crimson-purple front to the lip, Le. 
Mrs. Temple, and others (Silver Flora Medal). 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, also sent a choice 
group of well-grown plants, including a pan of the rare Habenaria 
rhodochila, with orange-red lip, Odontonia Norma (Miltonia Warscewiczii 
x Odm. eximium), a striking thing, having the sepals and petals blotched 
with claret-red, and the broad, nearly circular lip white, with solid claret- 
red blotches on either sides of the yellow crest, Cattleya Warneri alba and 
C. Gaskelliana alba, Brassocattleya Princess Ena (Bc. Maronii X C. 
Mossiz), two fine Bc. Veitchii, Cymbidium Alexanderi, fine forms of 
Odontioda Zenobia, Brewii, and Bradshawiz, and a few handsome Odonto- 
glossums (Silver Flora Medal). 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, staged a good group, including 
Leliocattleya Goldcrest, Fascinator, and others, the remarkable Dendro- 
bium Harveyanum, Maxillaria Fletcheriana with three flowers, Vanda 
cristata, Ornithidium coccineum, Epicattleya radiato-Bowringiana, 
Ccelogyne prolifera and ochracea; Brassocatlelia Triune, Lycaste Janet- 
Ross, light yellow with faint rose spotting, and a few good Odonto- 
glossum; (Silver Banksian Medal). 
