152 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1912. 
front of the yellow crest. Exhibited by S. Gratrix, Esq., Whalley Range, 
Manchester (gr. Mr. Brown). 
AWARD OF MERIT. 
CaATTLEYA DirRcE, WESTONBIRT VAR. (Vulcan xX Warscewiczii).—A 
very handsome hybrid, most like the former in shape, with rosy lilac sepals 
and petals, and the lip darker with claret purple veining. Exhibited by 
Lt.-Col. Sir George L. Hoiford, K.C.V.O. 
CULTURAL COMMENDATION 
SOPHRONITIS GRANDIFLORA.—A very fine specimen, bearing nearly 100 
flowers. To Mr. H. G. Alexander, Orchid grower to Lt.-Col. Sir George 
Ls-Holford, K.C, VO, 
At the meeting held on April 2nd there was a very fine display of 
Orchids, including six medal groups, other awards being three First-class 
Certificates and five Awards of Merit. 
Orchid Committee present :—J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (in the Chair), and 
Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), Harry J. Veitch, Gurney Wilson, R. A. Rolfe, 
R. G. Thwaites, F. Sander, F. M. Ogilvie, T. Armstrong, A. A. McBean, 
J. Charlesworth, W. H. Hatcher, J. E. Shill, A. Dye, H. G. Alexander, 
W. H. White, J. Wilson Potter, Clive Cookson, W. Bolton, C. J. Lucas, 
R. Brooman White, de Barri Crawshay, and J. S. Moss. 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham (gr. Mr. J. M. Black), 
staged a very brilliant little group of about a dozen Odontiodas (which are 
noted on another page), with a few pretty forms of Odontoglossum armain- 
villierense (Silver Banksian Medal). 
Mrs. Norman Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. H. J. 
Chapman), sent Odontoglossum crispum nigrum, with very dark spots, and 
O. percultum pallidum, a light-coloured variety. 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), sent a 
richly-coloured form of Odontoglossum Lambeauianum. 
E. H. Davidson, Esq., Borlases, Twyford, sent Lycaste Skinneri alba. 
Lieut.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, Westonbirt (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander), 
sent Cattleya Olaf, a pretty light-coloured hybrid. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford (gr. Mr. W. H. White), sent a 
pretty group of yellow-flowered Dendrobiums, with Masdevallia Arminii, 
caudata, Courtauldiana, Shuttryana Chamberlainii, leontoglossa, Gelenyana, 
ignea, Henriette, and others. 
Arthur Legge, Esq., Homefield, Worthing (gr. Mr. Rolfe), sent four 
very promising seedling Dendrobiums, one from D. nobile nobilius “MD 2. 
elegans being most like the former in size and colour, while D. Arthur 
Legge (D. n. elegans X ?) was a beautiful light-coloured form. 
F. M. Ogilvie, Esq.. The Shrubbery, Oxford (gr. Mr. Balmforth), showed 
