320 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [OCTOBER, 1913. 
Orchid grower to Sir Trevor Lawrence,’ Bart., K.C.V.O., for a fine 
specimen, bearing six well-developed racemes. 
At the meeting held on September 23rd there was a fine display of 
Orchids, and the awards consisted of seven 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.), Sir Harry J. Veitch, J. Wilson. Potter, 
R. G. Thwaites, F. J. Hanbury, A. McBean, T. Armstrong, C: H. Curtis, 
W. Cobb, J. Charlesworth, W. H. Hatcher, J. Cypher, W. P. Bound, 
J. E. Shill, H. G. Alexander, Arthur Dye, W..H. White, S. W. Flory, 
W. Bolton, Gurney Wilson, Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., R. A. Rolfe, and 
C, -J, ‘Lucas. 
Before the commencement of business the Chairman alluded in feeling 
terms ‘to the loss which the Committee had sustained by the death of 
Mr. John S. Moss, whose decease was so deeply deplored by Orchid lovers. 
_ H.-S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), received a 
Silver Flora Medal for a fine group, in which Cattleyas and Leliocattleyas 
were conspicuous, and included C. Dietrichiana, Pittiana, Venus, Carmen, 
Iris,and Warscewiczii, L.-c. callistoglossa, L.-c. Clonia var. Amy Leemann, 
L.-c. luminosa, several L.-c. Bryan, and others, with Odontoglossum grande, 
Rolfez, and a few O. crispum, Leelia splendens, Sophrolelia heatonensis, 
Cypripedium Sanderiano-Curtisii, and a few others. 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham Hill (gr. Mr. Black), 
received a Silver Banksian Medal for a good group, containing over twenty 
plants of Cattleya Adula, showing a wide range of variation, with a few 
other good things. . 
G. .W. Bird, Esq., Manor House, West Wickham (gr. Mr. Redden), 
sent a very richly-coloured form of Cattleya Freya (Mantinii x Dowiana 
aurea). = , 
Walter Cobb, Esq., Normanhurst, Rusper (gr. Mr. Salter), sent a good 
Cypripedium villoso-Rothschildianum, with two twin-flowered scapes, the 
flowers being striped with red-brown ona yellowish ground. 
E. H, Davidson, Esq., Orchid Dene, Twyford, sent a few showy little 
plants, namely, Odontoglossum Woodroffe, with three very richly-coloured 
flowers, O. Twyford Gem (Rossii rubescens X_ formosum), another richly- 
coloured thing, a fine O. Ceres, with seven flowers, a good Sophrocattleya 
Doris, and “a form of S.-c. Blackii with one very large orange-coloured 
flower. ™ Re Gag Me eae 
W._R.. Lee, Esq., Plumpton, Heywood (gr. Mr. Branch), sent a plant 
of Cypripedium Niobe-Leeanum, with two flowers, most like C. Niobe in 
general character, but the sides of the dorsal sepal suffused with purple. 
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