FEBRUARY, 1916.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 5¢ 
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RoyaL. HorTICULTURAL. 
HE opening meeting of the new year was held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on January 11th, 
and produced a particularly fine display of Orchids, including one of the 
finest groups of winter-flowering kinds yet seen in the Hall, for which 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. were awarded a Gold Medal. Six other 
medals were given, with one First-class Certificate, four Awards of Merit, 
and one Seedling Commendation. 
Orchid Committee present :—J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Sir Harry J. Veitch, Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., 
R. A. Rolfe, R. G. Thwaites, F. J. Hanbury, Pantia Ralli, A. McBean, 
F. M. Ogilvie, T. Armstrong, Walter Cobb, J. Charlesworth, W. H. 
Hatcher, H. G. Alexander, C. H. Curtis, J. E. Shill, W. P. Bound, 
A. Dye, S. W. Flory, W. Bolton, R. Brooman White, and Gurney Wilson. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Brackenhurst, Pembury (gr. Mr. J. Davis), 
staged a group of well-grown plants, to which a Silver Flora Medal was 
awarded. It contained the fine Brassocattleya Cliftonii albens, the 
brilliant Sophrocattleya Saxa, well-flowered examples of Masdevallia 
Courtauldiana, Laucheana and melanopus, several fine forms of Odonto- 
glossum crispum, a richly-coloured form of Odontioda Madeline and O. 
Joan, Cypripedium philippinense, C. Daisy-Barclay, C. Leeanum J. Gurney- 
Fowler, the fine C. son giganteum, and others. 
H. J. Elwes, Esq., Colesborne, Cheltenham (gr. Mr. W. Walters), sent 
two profusely-flowered examples of Pleione humilis, one with white and the 
other with lilac ground colour and the usual brown markings on the lip. 
The plant was collected at 9,000 altitude in Sikkim by Mr. Elwes. 
G. Hamilton Smith, Esq., Northside, Leigh Woods, Bristol (gr. 
Mr. Coningsby), sent fine examples of the natural hybrids Cymbidium 
Cooperi and C. roseum, which were imported with C. insigne, also C. 
Capella (Wiganianum x insigne), bearing its first flowers, which are 
greenish yellow with a zone of red round the front of the lip inside the 
Margin. 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham (gr. Mr. Hannington), 
sent the richly-coloured Odontoglossum Edna var. Rosita, O. Humeanum, 
and Sophrocattleya Carona (Sc. Dorila X Lc. rubens), a promising little 
Plant, flowering within a period of three years from the time the seed was 
Sown. The flowers are rose, with some cream on the sepals, and the lip 
purple crimson with a yellow base. 
