3 6 2 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



SOCIETIES. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 



A meeting of this Society was held at the Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate r 

 Westminster, on November 4th, when there was an extremely fine display 

 of Orchids. 



J. Bradshaw, Esq., The Grange, Southgate (gr. Mr. Whitelegge), was 

 awarded a Silver Flora Medal for a fine group, containing many fine varieties 

 of Cattleya labiata, both white and coloured, including C. 1. Amesiana r 

 having a white flower with the lip lilac-pink in colour, which gained an 

 Award of Merit; good forms of C. Dowiana aurea, Dendrobium X 

 splcndidissimum grandiflorum, Oncidium varicosum, O. Forbesii, a fine 

 form of Laelio-cattleya X bletchleyensis, and others. 



C. H. Feiling, Esq., Southgate House, Southgate (gr. Mr. Stocking),, 

 received a Silver Flora Medal for an excellent group, containing many fine- 

 varieties of Cypripedium insigne, C. X Memoria Moensii, C. X nitens r 

 C. Stonei, C. Spicerianum, C. X Arthurianum, C. X Leeanum, C~ 

 Charlesworthii, and the fine C. X Harrisio-villosum. 



Captain G. L. Holford, Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. Alexander), staged 

 a fine group of specimen plants, which gained a Silver Banksian Medal. 

 It included two fine plants of Vanda Kimballiana, the largest bearing 

 fourteen spikes and an aggregate of 145 flowers; V. Sanderiana, Laelia 

 pumila praestans, with nine flowers ; Cattleya X Ariel, a fine form of C. 

 labiata, the pure white Dendrobium Phalaenopsis hololeucum, and a very- 

 fine D. formosum giganteum, bearing ten spikes, with sixty very large 

 flowers, which received a Cultural Commendation. 



Sir F. Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. Young), received a 

 Silver Banksian Medal for a fine group, including Saccolabium calceolare y 

 Odontoglossum X spectabile, Cattleya superba, C. labiata alba, with three 

 flowers ; C. 1. Cooksonae, C. X Mantinii nobilior, Laelio-cattleya X 

 Frederick Boyle, Laelia pumila " Pearl," a pretty blush-white form with the 

 lip pink in front, Cymbidium Tracyanum, a good form of Zygonisia X 

 Rolfeana, two fine pans of Pleione Wallichiana, Cypripedium insigne 

 Harefield Hall variety, C. i. Sanderse, C. X Niobe, C. bellatulum album, 

 C. X Arthurianum, and others. 



The Hon. W. Rothschild, M.P.,Tring Park (gr. Mr. Hill), was awarded 

 a Silver Banksian Medal for a fine group of rare and interesting Orchids,, 

 containing Masdevallia angulata, M. abbreviata, M. muscosa, M. infracta, 

 M. hieroglyphica, M. corniculata, M. X Doris, M. X Hincksiana, M. X 

 Acis, Stenoglottis longifolia, and its variety alba, Sarcanthus teretifolius,. 

 Scaphosepalum gibberosum, Restrepia elegans, two plants of the beautiful 

 Phalaenopsis Lowii, the curious Bulbophyllum grandiflorum, B. Careyanum, 



