DECEMBER, 1915.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
RoyaL HorTIcULTURAL. 
MEETING was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, 
Westminster, on November gth, and produced a good display of 
Orchids, the feature of the meeting being a plant of the Philippine Vanda 
luzonica, exhibited by Messrs. Sander & Sons, we believe for the first time 
in Europe. The awards consisted of five medals, one First-class Certificate, 
three Awards of Merit, and one Seedling Commendation. Among plants- 
labelled as previously Certificated we noted Cypripedium elatior Shrubbery 
var. and Odontoglossum Smithii (First-class Certificates), Cattleya 
Mantinii nobilior, Cirrhopetalum gracillimum and Odontoglossum Ceres. 
Goodson’s var. (Awards of Merit). 
Orchid Committee present :—J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), 
J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Sir Harry J. Veitch, J. Wilson Potter, R. A. Rolfe,. 
R. G. Thwaites, F. J. Hanbury, Pantia Ralli, F. M. Ogilvie, T. Arm- 
strong, W. Cobb, J. Cypher, W. H. Hatcher, W. P. Bound, C. H. Curtis, 
A. Dye, W. H. White, S. W. Flory, Gurney. Wilson, J. Charlesworth, and 
A. McBean. : 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Brackenhurst, Pembury, staged a small group- 
of choice things, including Lycaste Imschootiana (cruenta X Skinneri) with 
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a twin-flowered scape, Sophrocatlelia De Vere Beauclerc (L.-c. bletchley- 
ensis X S.-l. heatonensis), Cattleya Puritan (Warscewiczii Frau Melanie 
Beyrodt X Maggie-Raphael alba), with pure white flowers and the front of 
_ the lip purple, C. Mantinii Fowler’s var., C. Fabia Fowler’s var., Cypri- 
pedium beechense, Odontoglossum Smithii and O. crispum roseum. 
F. M. Ogilvie, Esq., The Shrubbery, Oxford (gr. Mr. W. Balmforth),. 
sent Cypripedium elatior Shrubbery var., and Odontioda Sheila (parentage 
untecorded), bearing a spike of rose-purple flowers, with somewhat darker 
markings, and the shape and size of Odontoglossum crispum. 
Pantia Ralli, Esq., Ashtead Park (gr. Mr. Farnes), sent Sophrocatlelia 
Serbia (S.c.-l. pumeximia X C. labiata), a promising rose- -purple flower of 
intermediate shape. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, staged a fine group,. 
including good examples of Cattleya Fabia, Portia, Antiope, and Mantinii 
nobilior, Lzliocattleya St.-Gothard, Smilax, Golden-Oriole, and Phoebus 
(C. Iris x L.-c. Cappei), a rich yellow hybrid, with a crimson front lobe to 
the lip, Oncidium oblongatum and pretextum, two distinct forms of 
Odontioda Patricia, Cypripedium Fairrieanum and Rossetti, Odontoglossum. 
armainvillierense xanthotes, O. Phocis, and O. Ceres Goodson’s vat.. 
(Silver Flora Medal). | 
