JUNE, 1912.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 163 
THE ROYAL INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION. 
THE Royal International Horticultural Exhibition, which was opened by 
their Majesties the King and Queen at midday on Wednesday, May 22nd, 
in the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, brought together a 
magnificent display of Orchids, the like of which has never been seen 
before. As previously announced, thirty-three classes were set apart for. 
Orchids, and entries were received from a large number of exhibitors, 
British and foreign, the majority of whom put in an appearance. 
A special tent was erected for the Orchids, 250 feet long by 70 feet 
broad, with hot water pipes beneath the stages to prevent an undue fall of 
temperature, and electric lighting was installed throughout, so that the 
exhibits could be examined till closing time, ten p.m. A broad stage was 
erected down the centre of the Orchid tent, with two side stages and an 
additional stage atone end. A few stove plants encroached upon part of 
the side stages, but otherwise this area was entirely devoted to Orchids, and 
the general effect was brilliant in the extreme. 
For the best and most varied group staged by an amateur in a space not 
exceeding 500 square feet, the first prize, consisting of Messrs. Sander & 
Sons’ Cup and £10, was won by F. M. Ogilvie, Esq., The Shrubbery, 
Oxford, with a magnificent group, which had been very tastefully arranged 
by Mr. Balmforth. It contained a beautiful series of Odontoglossum 
crispum varieties aggregating some 300 spikes, and including three of the 
best forms of O. c. xanthotes, known as hololeucum, Charlesworthii, and 
Snow Queen, with a number of handsomely-blotched forms, O. Harwoodii, 
Shrubbery var., O. Uroskinneri album, and other species and hybrids, about 
three dozen brilliant Odontiodas, a little cluster of O. Charlesworthii, and 
a form of O. Diana being very fine, some thirty plants of Dendrobium 
Thwaitesz with about 1500 of its richly-coloured flowers, some fifty well- 
grown Leliocattleya Canhamiana, and other handsome Leeliocattleyas, 
Brassocatlelia Veitchii, a series of Brassocattleyas, including the beautiful 
B.-c. Veitchii var. Queen Alexandra, thirty fine plants of the chaste 
Cattleya Dusseldorfii Undine, many fine C. Mossiz, Mendelii, and others, 
Phaleznopsis amabilis and Lueddemanniana, Thunias, Epidendrums, a fine 
series. of albino Cypripediums, including about 150 flowers of C. callosum 
Sandere, with many C. Lawrenceanum Hyeanum and C. Maudiz, some 
fine Miltonias, Trichopilia Backhouseana, and others too numerous to 
particularise. Some of the leading forms were massed together, and the 
colours contrasted in a very effective way, the plants being staged in a 
setting of delicate ferns. 
The second prize in the same class, Messrs. Charlesworth & Co.’s Cup 
and £7, was won by Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park (gr. Mr. 
