106 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [AprRiL, 1916. 
S| SUCLE TIES. | 
RoyAL HorTICULTURAL. 
HEAVY fall of snow limited the number of exhibits at the meeting 
held on March 7th, and the visitors were not numerous. Orchids, 
however, were fairly represented, and the awards consisted of one First- 
class Certificate, two Awards of Merit, and four Medals. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Sir Harry, J. Veitch, 
W. Bolton, R. B. White, S. H. Low, G. Wilson, T. Armstrong, J. 
Charlesworth, J. Cypher, W. H. Hatcher, S. W. Flory, and C. Cookson. 
FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATE. 
ODONTOGLOssUM THE CZAR (parentage unrecorded).—A very fine thing, 
of excellent shape and substance, and having broad, claret-purple sepals 
and petals, with a narrow fringed white margin, and a little more white on 
the lip, the crest being yellow. The colour suggests a descent from O. 
Vulystekei. Exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
CYMBIDIUM ALEXANDERI EXcELsIor (insigne X Veitchii).—A charming 
thing, having rosy sepals and petals with somewhat darker lines, and the 
lip with a spotted band of ruby-red in front, and some rose-coloured 
markings on the side lobes. Exhibited by Messrs. J. & A. McBean. 
OpoNTIODA JOAN Fow Ler’s var. (Oda. Charlesworthii x Odm. 
armainvillierense).—A very beautiful form, having broad, yellow sepals and 
petals, with irregular zones of red-brown blotches, and the lip with a large 
red-brown blotch in front of the yellow crest, and some smaller red dots in 
front. Exhibited by J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. 
OTHER EXHIBITS. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park (gr. Mr. Collier), showed a 
well-flowered Luisia Cantharis (Rolfe), with beetle-like lip, the rare 
Acanthophippium sylhetense, Czlia macrostachya, Dendrobium viridiscens, 
the handsome D. chessingtonense, D. Wiganianum Gatton Park var., D. 
Euryalus, D. Rubens elegans, and other showy forms. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Brackenhurst, Pembury (gr. Mr. J. Davis), 
sent Cattleya Trianze Amesiana, white form, with blush-pink front to the lip. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, staged a fine group, 
including a dozen plants of Odontoglossum crispum xanthotes, some good 
blotched forms and hybrids, with several brilliant Odontiodas, the brilliant 
Cattleya Triane Grand Monarch, Sophrocatlelia Marathon, Masdevallia 
Harryana lilacina, Leeliocattleya bella alba, &c. (Silver Flora Medal). 
