2 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 1916, 
CERTIFICATED ORCHIDS. “ 
There has been a further decline in the number of Orchids that have 
been certificated by the R.H.S. during the year, the list including twenty- 
eight First-class Certificates and fifty-six Awards of Merit. Those that 
gained the higher award comprise eight Cattleyas, six Odontoglossums, 
four Lzliocattleyas, three Brassocattleys, and two each of Odontioda and 
Cypripedium, while Catasetum, Dendrobium, and Sophrocattleya have 
each a single representative. Cattleya displaces Odontoglossum for the 
first place, while Miltonia, which was second last year, has dropped out 
altogether. In the list of Awards of Merit we find fourteen Lzliocattleyas 
and thirteen Cattleyas, these genera having maintained their positions; 
then follow six Odontoglossums, Cypripedium and Odontioda with five 
each, Brassocattleya with four, and Cymbidium with two, while Bulbo- 
phyllum, Dendrobium, Disa, Miltonia, Sophrocattleya and Vanda have 
each a single representative. Hybrids were more than ever to the front, 
for only five out of the above list were imported plants, and of the remainder 
as many as thirty-four were generic crosses. A Certificate of Appreciation 
was awarded to Messrs. Armstrong & Brown for Odontioda Armstrongii 
var. Peerless, and the new Seedling Commendation, instituted in September 
for promising seedlings that are at present undeveloped, was awarded on 
four occasions. We note with regret that several of the hybrids mentioned 
above appear in the list of “ parentage unrecorded.” 
CULTURE. 
Only five Cultural Commendations have been awarded, but this was 
probably due to the abnormal conditions of the year, for there has been 
little inducement to bring specimen plants to the meetings. The Lindley 
Medal for culture, however, has been awarded on three occasions, to 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown for an altogether exceptional specimen of 
Coelogyne pandurata, shown at the Chelsea Show, to J. Gurney Fowler, 
Esq., for Odontoglossum Georgius-Rex, shown at Holland House, and to 
Messrs. Sander & Sons for the magnificent specimen of Vanda Sanderiana 
which was figured as the frontispiece of our last volume. 
NOVELTIES. 
Novelties of merit among imported Orchids seem to be increasingly — 
difficult to find as years go on, but in Cypripedium Curtisii Sandere — 
Messrs. Sander & Sons have introduced a very distinct and beautiful albino, — 
that was deemed worthy of a First-class Certificate by the Orchid — 
Committee of the R.H.S. It appeared as a single plant in a batch of — 
imported C. Curtisii, and was exhibited bearing three finely-developed — 
flowers. They also received an Award of Merit for Vanda luzonica, 2 
beautiful Philippine species that, so far as we know, has not previously 
flowered in Europe. It was figured at page 137 of our May issue from 4 : 
