226 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (SEPTEMBER, 1916 
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RoyaL HorTICULTURAL. 
MEETING was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, 
e Westminster, on August Ist, when there was a rather small display 
of Orchids, and the awards consisted of one medal and two Awards of 
Merit. 
Orchid Committee present : Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. (in the Chair), 
J. O’Brien (hon. sec.)., Gurney Wilson, R. Brooman White, S. W. Flory, 
Arthur Dye, C. H. Curtis, W. H. Hatcher, J. Cypher, J. Charlesworth, 
Walter Cobb, E. R. Ashton, Pantia Ralli, T. Armstrong, R. A. Rolfe, 
and C. J. Lucas. 
AWARDS OF MERIT. 
L2&LIOCATTLEYA GENERAL-LETCHINSKY (callistoglossa x bletchley- 
ensis).—A large and handsome hybrid, with flowers of excellent shape, the 
segments being broad and rosz-purple in colour, and the front of the lip 
crimson-purple, margined with lilac and with some yellow in the throat. 
Exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. 
LA&LIOCATTLEYA MAQuEDA (Lec. George-Woodhams x C. Roths- 
childiana).—A very beautiful hybrid, in which Cattleya Dowiana is 
introduced through both parents. The flowers are of good Cattleya shape, 
and the colour bright rose-purple, with a somewhat darker lip, and darker 
lines down the centre of the petals. Exhibited by Messrs Armstrong 
& Brown, Tunbridge Wells. 
OTHER EXHIBITs. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park (gr. Mr. J. Collier), showed 
Lzliocattleya eximia Gatton Park var., a very fine form, having light rosy 
lilac sepals and petals, and the front of the lip violet-purple, with some 
deep yellow in the throat. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, staged a choice group 
of hybrids, conspicuous among them being Leliocattleya Appam (Lc. 
Scylla x C. Dowiana aurea), a promising thing, having copper yellow 
flowers tinged with rose, and a ruby-purple lip with orange-yellow veining 
in the throat, and Le. General-Sakharoff (Le. callistoglossa x G. Gaskel- 
liana), a well-shaped flower, with light rose sepals and petals, and a darker 
lip, with a broad lilac margin and some yellow in the throat. We also 
noted Cattleya Gaskelliana and var. alba, C. Hesta, two fine Vanda 
coerulea, several examples of the variable Odontioda Brewii, Odonto- 
glossum Harryanum and three charming O. crispum xanthotes, Dendrobium 
Dearei, Miltonia Charlesworthii, and others (Silver Flora Medal). 
