Nov-Dec. .917-] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 253 
the. annexed portrait, for which we are indebted to the courtesy of the 
Editor of the journal just mentioned. It was soon after his marriage, in 
1859, and that Mr. Marshall began to cultivate Orchids, and for many 
years he was a successful exhibitor at South Kensington, Regents Park, and 
the Crystal Palace. At the famous International Exhibition, held in 1866, . 
he gained the second prize for the best ten Orchids, and two years later he 
was awarded a Lindley Medal for the excellence of a group of between fifty 
and sixty Cattleya Triane. The Medal, however, ‘it is on record, was 
never received. In those days East Indian Orchids were much in favour, 
and with these Mr. Marshall was also very successful. His numerous 
other activities are mentioned in an appreciative Obituary notice in the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, where it is remarked that he was a draughtsman of no 
mean order, and made many delightful sketches of insects and Orchids. 
In 1906, he received the Victoria Medal of Horticulture, and three years 
later the Gold Medal of the Veitch Memorial Trust. It was the formation 
in March, 1889, of an Orchid Committee by the R.H.S. at first nominally 
as a section of the Floral Committee; that severed Mr. Marshall’s official 
‘connection with Orchids, for at the meeting of the latter body, held on 
March 12th, we find that First-class Certificates were awarded to 
Cymbidium eburneo-Lowianum and Cypripedium Rothschildianum, under 
Mr. Marshall’s Chairmanship, but a fortnight later, when the Orchidists sat 
as a separate body, Mr. Marshall retained his old position. Mr. Marshall’s 
name is commemorated in Oncidium Marshallianum, dedicated to him as 
long ago as 1866, and Thunia Marshalliana, given eleven years later. 
An interesting note has since appeared from Mr. W. Wilson, East Dene 
Gardens, Bonchurch, whose father had charge of Mr. Marshall’s collec- 
tions, and who was elected a member of the R.H.S. Floral Committee in 
1872. He remarks: ‘“‘I have by me all the certificates and prize cards won 
by these collections, which number nearly 400. They include ten Gold 
and four Silver Medals, and 45 R.H.S. Certificates, which will show to , 
what extent Mr. Marshall cultivated Orchids. 
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A incident related at p. 252 serves to recall the early history ot this 
popular Odontoglossum, which was long known under “ — vel 
O. Alexandre. The plant mentioned as flowering for the first time in 
cultivation in April, 1865, in the collection of Mr. W. Marshall, was 
exhibited under the name of O. Bluntii, and this was stated by Dr. 
Be bach, acho wes present, to be quite distinct from O. Alexandrze 
(Gard. Chron., 1865, p. 566). 
ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM. 
