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FEBRUARY, I911.]} THE ORCHID REVIEW. 51 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyaL HorTICULTURAL. 
THE first meeting of the year was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on January 3rd, when there was a fine 
display of Orchids, and the Awards consisted of one Gold and four other 
Medals, two Awards of Merit, and one Cultural Commendation. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., in the Chair, and 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (Hon. Sec.), de B. Crawshay, R. G. Thwaites, H. 
Little, W. Cobb, F. M. Ogilvie, F. J. Hanbury, H. G. Alexander, A. Dye, 
J. Cypher, Stuart Low, C. H. Curtis, Gurney Wilson, W. H. White, J. 
Wilson Potter, and W. H. Hatcher. 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham (gr. Mr. J. M. Black), 
staged a choice group, to which a Silver Flora Medal was awarded. It 
consisted of a series of Cattleya Maggie Raphael (Dowiana aurea X Trianz 
alba) with white sepals and petals, and a rich crimson lip veined with 
golden yellow, showing much individual variation, but all very beautiful. 
There were also several good plants of Sophrocattleya Saxa and other 
Sophrocattleyas, also various Odontiodas, including the brilliant O. Charles- 
worthii. 
obs Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, S. Woodford (gr. Mr. J. Davis), 
sent a fine example of Cypripedium Leeanum, J. Gurney Fowler, 
Cymbidium glebelandense (Schroederi X insigne), an interesting hybrid, 
having greenish white sepals and petals with a faint rose tinge, and the lip 
dotted with rose in front, and with some darker lines on the side lobes, and 
two other good things mentioned under Awards. 
Lieut.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, Westonbirt (gr. Mr. H. G, Alexander), 
sent Cypripedium Nydia (Niobe, Westonbirt var. X Charlesianum var. 
Minnie), having the dorsal sepal rose, with a claret-purple median line, and 
a white margin, and the petals and lip honey yellow marked with brown. 
He also sent a handsome Leliocattleya mentioned under Awards. 
H. F. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. G. E. Day), sent the 
bright yellow Odontoglossum Wiganianum, Goodson’s var., and a small 
Odontoglossum imported with Oncidium macranthum. 
Sir John Edwards-Moss, Roby Hall, Torquay, sent a hybrid Odonto- 
glossum with a double flower, the two lips being placed side by side, and 
and the numerous other segments arranged behind them. 
Francis Wellesley, Esq., Westfield, Woking (gr. Mr. W. Hopkins), 
sent three fine Cypripediums, C. Cupid, white, with purple spotting on the 
dorsal sepal and petals, C. Col. Riordan, and C. Miss Alice Wallace. 
-A plant of Phaiocalanthe Sedeni was sent from the Society's gardens at 
Wisley. 
