162 THE ORCHID: REVIEW: [JUNE, 1915 
Medals were awarded to Orchid groups, with four Silver-gilt Cups, three 
Silver Cups, and one Silver Flora Medal, while a Lindley Medal was 
awarded to a remarkable specimen of Coelogyne pandurata. 
Orchids have always been one of the leading features of this Show, and 
the date was probably a little too early for such an exceptionally late season 
—at all events we noticed that Auricules were shown in quantity and in 
fine condition.. The date seems to have been creeping back until it has 
nearly reached the middle of the month, and we have little doubt that but 
for the Whitsuntide holidays the date would have been fixed a week later. 
At all events only a week had elapsed since the last ordinary meeting, and 
there will be a three weeks’ interval between the Show and the next 
meeting. Such a Show entails an enormous amount of preliminary work, 
and for various reasons the holiday season is quite unsuitable for such a 
function. We note with satisfaction that the great Summer Show will 
again fall into its normal month of July. 
A full report appears elsewhere, and we will not further anticipate it, 
_ though we may find room for the following newspaper cutting obligingly 
sent by a friend :-— : 
PRICELESS ORCHIDS. 
EXHIBITION OF FLOWERS AT CHELSEA. 
Many people will doubtless revel in the display of Orchids. Ask to be 
shown the Sypropedium Maudii, a very superb specimen of this beautiful 
and rare flower. . It is easily possible to give 25 guineas for a small pot of 
Orchids, and some of these aristocrats of the flower world are almost 
priceless. 
It is not overburdened with detail, but it is all that the writer has to say 
about Orchids, which is confessedly the subject under discussion. And it 
might almost be taken to represent the vanishing hopes of one who had 
started out with the idea of forming some little collection in his own back 
garden. And that advice about ‘‘Sypropedium Maudii”—-we know what 
he is driving at—would have been more appropriate over a dozen years ago, 
before the plant had been propagated by the thousand. All unwittingly, 
however, our reporter has happened on a plant with a history, and we may 
as well oblige with the story. 
Once upon a time—it must have been nearly twenty years ago—@ 
famous collection came into the market, being disposed of through the 
medium of a well-known firm. One of the plants acquired bore a label 
stating that the seeds of a cross between two well-known albinos had been 
