252 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
AT the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society held at the Drill Hall, 
James Street, Westminster, on June 25th, Orchids were not so largely 
exhibited as on the previous occasion, though several interesting groups and 
specimens were staged. 
F. Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey (gr. Mr. Stafford), 
staged a very effective group of good things, to which a Silver Flora Medal 
was awarded. It contained several forms of Lelia tenebrosa, including a 
fine specimen with twenty-two flowers, and a dark form called Charles- 
worth’s variety, to which an Award of Merit was given; L. x Stella, two 
forms of the white Sobralia macrantha Kienastiana, Lelio-Cattleya X 
Canhamiana alba, L.-c. X eximia, some choice forms of Cattleya Mossie 
and C. Mendelii, Cypripedium Lawrenceanum superbum, C. X Gowerl 
magnificum, Selenipedium x macrochilum giganteum, &c. 
H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Aldous), received a 
Silver Banksian Medal for a very pretty group, containing, among other 
things, a fine Oncidium phymatochilum, Angraecum falcatum, Masdevallia 
Chimera, Cypripedium superbiens, Odontoglossum confertum, a_ finely 
spotted O. crispum, and several forms of Lelia tenebrosa, including L. t. 
Pittiana, to which an Award of Merit was given. It had yellow sepals and 
petals veined with rose, and a blush white lip rayed with purple in the throat. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, S. Woodford (gr. Mr. Davis), staged 
a fine group, to which a Silver Banksian Medal was also given. It contained 
a plant of the Walton Grange variety of Lelia tenebrosa, with clear yellow 
sepals and petals, and white lip veined with purple in the throat; Leelio- 
cattleya xX eximia, some fine L.-c. x Arnoldiana (one plant with eight 
flowers), some good Odontoglossum crispum, Epidendrum vitellinum, 
Cypripedium Rothschildianum, &c. — - 
Lord Rothschild, Tring Park, Tring (gr. Mr. Hill), staged a very hand- 
some form of Cattleya Warscewiczii, in which the lip was wholly rich 
purple-crimson, the characteristic yellow blotches being obliterated. An 
Award of Merit was given. 
F. W. Moore, Esq., Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, sent the well- 
known Orchis latifolia, and an exceptionally fine form with very large 
flowers, the former receiving a Botanical Certificate and the latter an Award 
of Merit. 
R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. Chapman), 
showed a plant of the curious Pleurothallis immersa, to which a Botanical 
Certificate was given. 
T. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester (gr. Mr. Johnson); 
sent a good Laelio-cattleya x Canhamiana alba, L.-c. X eximia, a pretly 
