January, 1911] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 25 
CULTURAL COMMENDATIONS. 
DENDROBIUM SPECIOSUM NITIDUM. A noble specimen bearing 45 spikes, 
grown by Mr. Collier, gr. to Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart. 
L2LIA ANCEPS’ AMESIANA, TEMPLE’S VAR. A well-bloomed specimen, 
grown by Mr. Bristow, gr. to Mrs. Temple, Groomsbridge. 
LycasTE cosTaTa. A fine plant, bearing 21 flowers, grown by Mr. 
W. H. White, Orchid grower to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. 
ODONTIODA CHARLESWORTHII. A fine deep-red variety, bearing a spike 
of 17 flowers, grown by Mr. W. Balmforth, gr. to F. M. Ogilvie, Esq., 
Oxford. 
There was no Show on December 2oth, but the Committees met to 
adjudicate upon any special subject submitted, and the Orchid Committee 
had twenty-four plants before them, and granted one First-class Certificate, 
four Awards of Merit, and one Cultural Commendation. The Members were 
present as follows :—J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., in the Chair, and Messrs. 
J. O’Brien (hon. sec,), A. Dye, H./Little, J. Charlesworth, C. H. Curtis, 
F. J. Hanbury, A. A. McBean, W. Cobb, W. H. Hatcher, H. G. Alexander, 
W. H. White, Gurney Wilson, de Barri Crawshay, and Harry J. Veitch. 
Lt.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. H. G. 
Alexander), sent Cypripedium Rossetti magnificum, a remarkably fine form, 
C. Acteus var. Undine (insigne Sandere x Leeanum Prospero), bearing 
nine flowers, three-fourths of the basal sepal being white, and two others 
{see Awards). 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., sent a fine Odontioda (see Awards). 
F. J. Hanbury, Esq., Brookhurst, East Grinstead, showed a flower of a 
hybrid between Lelia autumnalis and Cattleya labiata. | 
A. Harrison, Esq., Lyndhurst, Watford, sent Lashiccettioyn Ethelreda 
Harrison (C. Loddigesii x L, xanthina). 
S. Larkin, Esq., The Ridgeways, Haslemere (gr. Mr. Hale), sent a fine 
plant of Odontoglossum crispo-Harryanum, a white form of Miltonia Bleuana, 
and Leliocattleya bella. 
Pantia Ralli, Esq., Ashstead Park, Epsom (gr. Mr. Hunt), sent a good 
form of the pure white Cattleya Dusseldorfii Undine. 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Streatham (gr. Mr. J. M. Black), sent Sophro- 
cattleya Saxa, and a fine Cattleya Maggie Raphael with white sepals and 
petals. , 
Francis Wellesley, Esq., Westfield, Woking (gr. Mr. W. Hopkins), sent 
Leliocattleya ons Westfield var., Cypripedium Waterloo, and C 
etoniense. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. Haywards Heath, sent a fine plant of 
Leliocattleya Sunray (L. cinnabarina x C. superba), Cypripedium Victor 
