APRIL, 1915.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 115 
Bag SOC RETTES. Fee] 
RoyaL HorRTICULTURAL. 
MEETING was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent 
Square, Westminster, on March 2nd, when there was a moderate 
supply of Orchids, and the awards consisted of four medals, one First-class 
Certificate, and one Award of Merit. 
At the: afternoon meeting interesting addresses were given by Dr. 
C. F. Fothergill on Pressing Flowers to Retain their Colours, and by Col. 
Rawson on Colour Changes in Flowers by the Removal of Sunlight. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in:the Chair), 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Gurney Wilson, J. Wilson Potter, R.A. 
Rolfe, F. Sander, R. G. Thwaites, P. Ralli, F. J. Hanbury, T. Armstrong, 
F. M. Ogilvie, C. H. Curtis, W. Cobb, J. Charlesworth, J. Cypher, W. H. 
Hatcher, J. E. Shill, W. P. Bound, G. Hunter, W. H. White, A. Dye, 
S. W. Flory, W. Bolton, R. Brooman White, C. Cookson, and Sir Harry 
J. Veitch. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Brackenhurst, Pembury (gr. Mr. Davis), sent 
a plant of Cattleya Triane Griselda, bearing two spikes of flowers, with 
the front of the lip violet-mauve, and the 
pale lavender sepals and petals, 
disc deep yellow. 
F. J. Hanbury, Esq.; Brockhurst, East Grinstead (gr. Mr: Matthews), 
sent Dendrobium chessingtonense Hanbury’s var., D. Missi F. E. King 
{Artemis Xx nobile nobilius), and a good form of D. Rubens. 
The Rev. H. G. Munro, Woodlands, Enfield (gr. Mr. Pottinger), sent a 
fine specimen of Phaius Blumei bearing several spikes. It had been 
imported from Assam. é 
Baron Bruno Schréder, The Dell, Englefield Green (gr. Mri Shill), sent 
finely developed spikes of Cymbidium Pauwelsii, with some twenty-five to 
thirty flowers. : 
Messrs. Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham, staged a bright little group, 
containing some good white Lzlia anceps, Cirrhopetalum picturatum with 
_ four spikes, Cymbidium Butterfly with two spikes, C. Gottianum, 
Calanthes, Chondrorhyncha Chestertonii, Dendrobium nobile virginale, 
Masdevallia gargantua, Aérides Vandarum, Miltonia Bleuana, Ada 
aurantiaca, Cypripedium Rossetti, and others (Silver Banksian Medal). 
Messrs. Stuart Low & Co.;, Jarvisbrook, staged a good group, including 
some well-flowered Dendrobium Wardianum and D. nobile, D. n. virginale, 
ba Little Gem, and some good forms of C. Trianz, 
Cattleya Percivaliana al 
Saccolabium bellinum, 
Oncidium Cavendishianum and splendidum, 
