DECEMBER, 1916.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 293. 
colour on the upper halves of the petals, the front of the lip and the 
staminode. Exhibited by Mrs. Norman Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam (gr. 
Mr. H. J. Chapman). 
PRELIMINARY COMMENDATION. 
ODONTOGLOSsSUM GENERAL CADORNA (Ossulstonii x King Emperor).— 
_A very promising thing, the flower being of model shape, the sepals and 
petals covered with nearly confluent reddish claret blotches, and margined 
with primrose, and the lip white, with a yellow crest and purple blotches. 
Exhibited by Messrs. Armstrong & Brown. 
CULTURAL COMMENDATION. 
ODONTOGLOSsUM PERCULTUM.—To Mr. Redden, gardener to G. W. 
Bird, Esq., West Wickham, Kent, for a magnificent specimen, bearing a 
branched inflorescence, nearly five feet high, with thirteen side branches 
and eighty-four flowers, well-blotched with purple on a white ground. 
GENERAL EXHIBITS. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park (gr. Mr. J. Collier), staged. 
a choice group, including Leeliocattleya Goliath (Lc. George-Woodhams X 
C. Enid), with rosy lilac sepals and the lip rich purple throughout, Lc. 
Epicasta Glorita, a noble form, Lc. Wellesleyi splendens, with a spike of 
four flowers, and Cattleya Gatton-Ruby (amabile x Hardyana), a fine 
thing, most recalling a richly-coloured form of the latter parent. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. G. H. Day), showed 
Sophrocattleya Annette (S. grandiflora x C. granulosa), with bright red 
Sepals and petals and some yellow on the lip, and Sophrocatlelia Veitchii 
grandiflora. 
R. Windsor Rickards, Esq., Usk Priory, Monmouthshire, sent Cypri- 
pedium Aurora (Germaine Opoix X insigne Harefield Hall var.), a fine 
thing most resembling the former. 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham (gr. Mr. Hannington), 
sent Cattleya Pretoria and var. alba (Peetersii X Dowiana aurea), the 
latter having white sepals and petals, two C. Bellona alba (Maggie- 
Raphael alba x Dowiana aurea), with white sepals and petals and a richly- 
coloured lip, Odontioda Rubia (Odm. Vuylstekei x Oda. Charlesworthii), 
red-brown with yellow apex to the segments, and Odontoglossum Edna. 
Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, staged a choice group, 
including Cattleya O’Brieniana alba, C. Claesiana alba, and C. Saturn, 
three charming whites, C. Venus, Fabia, Freya, and Maroni, the latter 
with spikes of seven and five flowers, Lelia pumila alba, raised from seed, 
Leliocattleya luminosa and others, Maxillaria picta, several good 
Odontiodas, Odontoglossum Philo (excellens X eximium), and other 
seedlings, the centre consisting of a fine plant of O. amcenum bearing a tall 
panicle with nine side branches and 97 flowers (Silver Flora Medal). 
