146 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (June, 1916. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
CATTLEYA NAIDA VAR. LUMINOSA (iridescens X Hardyana).—A brightly- 
coloured flower of neat compact shape, with bronzy sepals, petals less 
spreading and more tinged with rose, and the lip purple-crimson with a 
broad orange throat. Exhibited by Messrs. Flory & Black. 
L2LIOCATTLEYA SIR MERVYN BULLER (Le. Mrs. Temple X C. Mossiz). 
—A brilliant hybrid, having broad, rose-coloured sepals and petals, and a 
dark crimson lip, with some deep yellow veining in the throat. Exhibited 
by Messrs. Armstrong & Brown. 
MILTONIA FRANK-READER.—A fine hybrid of M. vexillaria memoria 
G. D. Owen, the other parent being uncertain. It recalls a fine M. 
Charlesworthii, having bright rose-pink flowers, with a large ruby crimson 
mask at the,base of the lip. Exhibited by Messrs. Armstrong & Brown. 
ODONTIODA BREWII VAR. CUPREA (Oda. Charlesworthii x Odm. 
Harryanum).—A very distinct and brilliant form, the flowers being of a 
unique shade of coppery orange. Exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. 
ODONTIODA FLORENCE (Oda. Cooksoniz xX Odm. Dora).—A brilliant 
hybrid, bearing a panicle with five side branches and 34 finely-shaped 
flowers, very regularly blotched with crimson on a light yellow ground, 
and margined with rose. Exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. 
ODONTOGLOssUM CRISPUM ALDWorTHII.—A brilliant variety, bearing a 
strong inflorescence, just beginning to open, the one fully expanded flower 
being of excellent shape, with dark ruby red blotches on a blush white 
ground. Exnibited by Messrs. J. & A. McBean. This superb variety 
gained the Davidson Cup for the best O. Crispum in the Show. : 
GROUPS AND OTHER EXHIBITS. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park (gr. Mr. J. Collier), staged 
a very handsome group, to which a Gold Medal was awarded. Specially 
noteworthy features were the number of fine Odontoglossums and brilliant 
‘Odontiodas, among the latter being the scarlet and yellow O. Colmanii 
and a fine O. Bradshawize Lady Colman, with spikes of clear scarlet 
flowers. _Odontoglossum Pescatorei virginale, bore a large panicle of pure 
white flowers, O. Queen of Gatton, and some excellent O. crispum, typical 
and blotched, were also very effective. We noted also the dwarf O. 
(Erstedii with two dozen white flowers, two fine plants of Dendrobium 
acuminatum, four hybrids of D. regium showing its own characteristic 
colour, Aérides odoratum album, Eria ornata, well-flowered examples of 
Masdevallia Courtauldiana, tridactylites, and O’Brieniana, Pleurothallis 
stenopetala, Stanhopea inodora, and others too numerous to mention. 
Miss Louisa Fowler, Brackenhurst, Pembury sent a few choice 
Specimens from the collection of her brother, the late J. Gurney Fowler, 
Esq., including the brilliant Leliocattleya J. F. Birkbeck, with three 
