Marcu, 1913.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. gl 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyaAL HORTICULTURAL. 
AT the fortnightly meeting held on February 4th last there was a good 
display of Orchids, and the awards consisted of seven medals, two First- 
class Certificates, and three Awards of Merit. 
Orchid Committee present: J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), J. 
O’Brien (hon. sec.), de Barri Crawshay, Gurney Wilson, J. S. Moss, 
W. H. White, A. Dye, J. E. Shill, J. Cypher, H. G. Alexander, J. Charles- 
worth, F. Sander, F. J. Hanbury, S. Low, J. Wilson Potter, W. Cobb, 
T. Armstrong, W. Bolton, R. A. Rolfe, W. H. Hatcher, C. H. Curtis, C. J. 
Lucas, Sir Harry J. Veitch, and Sir Jeremiah Colman. 
H. J. Bromielow, Esq., Rann Lea, Rainhill, Lanes. (gr. Mr. Morgan), 
sent Cypripedium Euryades New Hall Hey var., a very fine and hand- 
somely-blotched form, and C. Alcibiades illustre, with a very broad green 
and white dorsal sepal. ; 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), 
sent two very fine plants of Odontoglossum Lady Roxburghe (cirrhosum X 
percultum), one of them bearing a large panicle of seventy blooms. 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), sent 
Odontoglossum Cassandra (Urania Xx crispum), a pretty cream white 
flower, spotted with red-brown, and having a very spiny crest, O. Calypso 
(triumphans X Lambeauianum), a well-shaped flower, most like the latter 
in colour, and O. Cleopatra (Carmania X Vulystekei), having light yellow, 
heavily blotched sepals and petals, and a white lip, blotched with purple in 
front of the yellow crest. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), sent the hand- 
some Odontoglossum Wiganianum Goodson’s var. (Wilckeanum X Rolfez), 
having clear yellow sepals and petals, spotted with purple brown, Odontioda 
Thwaitesii, Odontoglossum Cassiope Fairlawn var., and Lycaste xytriophora 
with six flowers. 
Lt.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), sent Cymbidium Gottianum var. Dawn (eburneum X 
insigne), a beautiful white form, with a rosy zone round the front of the 
lip, C. G. var. The Pearl, another charming white form, having a few 
purple spots on the lip and a purple column, Cypripedium Constantine, a 
handsome form of unknown parentage, having a broad white dorsal sepal 
veined and spotted with purple, and Leliocattleya Dorothy (C. Schroederee 
X L.-c. Doris), having a spike of four light yellow flowers, tinged with 
Salmon pink, and the front of the lip crimson. 
C. J. Phillips, Esq., The Glebe, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Bucknell), sent 
Odontoglossum Antiope var. Reseda (Rossii X Edwardii), a very pretty 
