242 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [AUGUST, 1915, 
health of M. Philip de Vilmorin, who was present as a guest, the President 
commended the War Horticultural Relief Fund to the sympathy and 
support of the Fellows, and M. Vilmorin, in replying, thanked British 
Horticulturists for their efforts to alleviate the suffering of their fellows in 
the war area. The health of the President and Council was proposed by 
Mr. Stuart Low, and was suitably acknowledged. 
The Orchids mostly occupied the centre stage of one of the large tents, 
and made a brilliant display, the plants being for the most part exceedingly 
well grown and flowered, and the awards consisted of two Gold and four 
other Medals—one being the» Lindley Medal for a splendidly-grown 
Odontoglossum—five Cups, two First-class Certificates, and three Awards 
of Merit. ; 
Orchid Committee present: Sir Harry J. Veitch (in the Chair), J. 
O’Brien (hon. sec.), T. Armstrong, J. E. Shill, W. Thompson, Arthur 
Dye, J. Cypher, W. Bolton, F. Sander, Gurney Wilson, W. H. Hatcher, 
A. McBean, Stuart H. Low, R. G. Thwaites, W. H. White, Pantia Ralli, 
Walter Cobb, R. A. Rolfe, J. Wilson Potter, C. J. Lucas, R. Brooman- 
White, and Clive Cookson. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), 
staged a magnificent group of Orchids, to which a Gold Medal was awarded. 
The arrangement was in the form of a high bank, the back consisting of 
tall Oncidiums, Sobralia Colmaniz, Epidendrum Boundii, prismatocarpum, 
and others, and the middle distance was made up of some good examples 
of Leliocattleya Aphrodite, Canhamiana, Hippolyta, and others, Lelia 
tenebrosa, several fine forms of Cattleya Mendelii, C. Warscewiczii King 
Edward VII., a very richly-coloured form, C. Mossi Wageneri, many 
beautiful Odontoglossums, white and blotched, the rare O. tripudians, a very 
fine series of Odontioda Bradshawiz, forming masses of scarlet colour, 
several O. Papilio, O. Schroederi, having large white flowers with a few 
orange-cinnamon blotches, the rare Zygopetalum Reeblingianum, Dendro- 
chilum cornutum, the very rare Australian Sarcochilus Ceciliz, with 
racemes of rosy flowers, a profusely-flowered Pleurothallis stenopetala, good 
examples of Cochlioda Neetzliana, Nanodes Meduse, Physosiphon 
Loddigesii, the woolly-flowered Eria pannea, a pretty little hybrid from 
Diacrium bicornutum x Cattleya Louryana, having white flowers, with 
rather elongated side lobes anda rosy front lobe, and many other interesting 
things, the group being effectively set up with moss and maiden-hair fern. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Brackenhurst, Pembury (gr. Mr. Davis); 
sent a plant of the handsome Odontioda Cooksoniz Fowler’s var., having 
scarlet flowers of excellent shape, with a white apex to the lip, and 
Odontoglossum Gorgius-Rex, a splendidly-grown plant, bearing a panicle 
of twenty-eight large and richly-coloured flowers. The Lindley Medal for, 
