SEPTEMBER, 1917.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 209 
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RoyaL HorTICULTURAL. 
HE usual fortnightly meeting was held at the London Scottish Drill 
Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, on August 14th, when there 
was a moderate display of Orchids, and the awards consisted of three 
medals, and two awards of Merit. 
Orchid Committee present: Sir Harry J. Veitch (in the chair), J. 
O’Brien (hon. sec.), W. Bolton, R. A. Rolfe, F. K. Sander, J. E. Shill, 
J. Charlesworth, Arthur Dye, C. H. Curtis, W. H. White, C. J. Lucas, 
E. R. Ashton, R. G. Thwaites, F. J. Hanbury, T. Armstrong, and Pantia 
Ralli. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
CaTTLEYA ALBION (O’Brieniana alba X Suzanne Hye de Crom).—A 
beautiful albino, most like the former in general character, and having pure 
white flowers of good shape and substance, with a prettily undulate lip, the 
disc of which is clear chrome yellow. The plant bore a two-flowered 
spike, and is not yet fully developed. Exhibited by Messrs. Armstrong & 
Brown. 
CATTLEYA TRIUMPHANS VAR. THE BARON (Rex X Dowiana aurea).—A 
brilliant hybrid, having broad, bright yellow sepals and petals, the latter 
with some rosy veining at the apex, and an ample magenta-crimson lip, 
margined with rose, and closely veined with golden yellow in the throat. 
Exhibited by Mr. J. E. Shill, The Dell Gardens, Englefield Green. 
GENERAL EXHIBITS. 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, staged a fine group, 
to which a Silver Flora Medal was awarded. It contained several showy 
Leliocattleyas, among which we noted the brilliant Lc. George Woodhams 
with six flowers, with forms of Lc. Robin Measures, Thyone, Rhenus, and 
Maqueda, the distinct Cattleya Daviesii, the pure white Miltonia vexillaria 
Queen Alexandra, a well-grown Ornithidium coccineum, Bulbophyllum 
grandiflorum with three flowers, Cypripedium Queen of Italy, C. Germaine 
Opoix, Bella, and memoria Alma Gevaert, a well-grown Odontonia 
brugensis, and a number of good Odontiodas and Odontoglossums. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, also received a Silver 
Flora Medal for a fine group of well-grown plants, in which we noted six 
diverse forms of Leliocattleya Appam (Lc. Scylla x C. Dowiana aurea) 
varying greatly in colour, Le. Laura (Le. Scylla x C. Rothschildiana), 
having salmon rose sepals and petals, and a darker zone round the lip, 
with much yellow veining on the disc, good forms of Lc. Hera, Serbia, and 
