346 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (NOVEMBER, 1913. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyaL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, 
‘West ter, on October 7th, when there was a larger display of Orchids 
than has been seen for the last two months, and Cattleyas and Lelio- 
cattleyas were particularly well represented. The awards consisted of five 
medals, one First-class Certificate, and three Awards of Merit. 
Orchid Committee present : J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), and 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), W. Bolton, Gurney Wilson, R. B. White, 
S. W. Flory, W. H. White, A. Dye, J. E. Shill, W. H. Hatcher, J. 
Charlesworth, W. Cobb, C. H. Curtis, A. McBean, T. Armstrong, R. G. 
Thwaites, Stuart Low, F. J. Hanbury, F. Sander, R. A. Rolfe, and Sir 
Harry J. Veitch. 
W. Waters Butler, Esq., Southfield, Edgbaston (gr. Mr. Jones), sent 
Cattleya Dietrichiana Southfield var., a richly-coloured form, and a 
beautiful example of C. Hardyana alba, with a spike of four flowers, having 
white sepals and petals, and a rich crimson lip with yellow throat and 
veining. 
E. H. Davidson, Esq., Orchid Dene, Twyford, showed a beautiful 
example of Odontoglossum Smithii, a good blotched O. crispum, and others. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), sent the 
beautiful albino Lelia pumila alba, and the handsome Cattleya Rhoda 
illuminata, Sophrolzlia Gratrixie, with a good example of Odontoglossum 
Ceres. 
Sir John Edwards Moss, Bart., Roby Hall, Torquay, sent a flower of 
a hybrid Cymbidium, obtained from C. giganteum x erythrostylum, and 
showing clearly its origin. The ground colour was green, lined with red- 
brown on the sepals, petals and lip, with the column red, as in the pollen 
parent. It hes been named Cymbidium Florinda. 
Pantia Ralli, Esq., Ashtead Park, Epsom (gr. Mr. Farnes), sent Leelio- 
cattleya Maqueda (L.-c. George Woodhams x C. Rothschildiana), a large 
and handsome hybrid, with rose-purple sepals and petals and a deep 
ruby-crimson lip, and Odontonia brugensis var. Distinction, bearing a 
raceme of eight flowers, having pale lilac segments with a violet base, and 
some yeéffow on the disc of the lip. 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham Hill, sent a pretty little 
group, including good forms of Cattleya Fabia, Iris, Adula, Cleopatra, 
Dowiana aurea, and others. 
Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, staged a very fine group, 
including a beautiful series of Oncidium incurvam and Epidendrum 
vitellinum autumnale at the back, some finely-grown and well-flowered 
