216 THE.-ORCHID REVIEW [JULY 19t5. 
|e| BOLI TIES. \é 
HE first meeting after the Chelsea Show was held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square Westminster, on June 8th, and 
produced a very fine display of Orchids, including a most beautiftf! albino of 
Cypripedium Curtisii from Messrs. Sander & Sons. The awards consisted 
of eight medals—two of them from amateur exhibitors—three First-class 
Certificates, and an Award of Merit. ; 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Gurney Wilson, F. M. Ogilvie, W. Bolton, 
S. W. Flory, R. A. Rolfe, A. Dye, W. P. Bound, H. G. Alexander, 
J. Cypher, J. Charlesworth, T. Armstrong, W. Cobb, Pantia Ralli, S. Low, 
R. G. Thwaites, F. Sander, Sir Harry J. Veitch, and Sir Jeremiah Colman, 
Bart. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Brackenhurst, Pembury (gr. Mr. Davis), 
staged a very choice group, to which a Silver Flora Medal was awarded. 
It contained a cut spike of the handsome Eulophiella Peetersiana, some 
good Odontoglossum crispum, a very fine hybrid of the O, Aglaon type, 
Odontioda Charlesworthii, O. (?) var. Monte Rosa, having sepals and 
petals mottled. with red and white, and the lip with a deep salmon-red 
centre, Miltonia vexillaria Fowler’s var., a particularly fine rose-coloured 
form, and several beautiful varieties of Cattleya Mossie? Of these C. M. 
Venice was:a very richly-coloured form bearing four flowers, C. M. Sea — 
Foam, a beautiful white with a few purple markings on the front of the lip, 
and C. M. Arnoldiana Fowler’s var., a very fine form of the Reineckeana type- 
W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone (gr. Mr. J. Howes), also 
received a Silver Flora Medal for a very fine group of Odontoglossums, 
notable among them being the richly-coloured O. eximium Walton Grange 
var. with a spike of ten flowers, O. sceptrum aureum, O. Queen of Spain, 4 
handsomely blotched flower, O. Aglaon, a_richly-coloured Odontioda 
Goodsoniz, and others, most of them having been raised in the collection. 
E. R. Ashton, Esq., Broadlands, Camden Park, Tunbridge Wells 
(gr. Mr. Young), sent a very beautiful example of Miltonia Charlesworthii 
with four spikes, each bearing six light rose flowers with a very dark mask 
at the base of the lip. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), 
sent the handsome Odontoglossum crispum Queen of Gatton, having 4 
white ground colour with a large reddish- 
also a good hybrid with purple flowers. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), sent Odonto- 
purple blotch on each segment, 
