146 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1910. 
=OCIETIES. 
RoyaAL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, 
Westminster, on April 5th, when there was a magnificent display of Orchids, 
and the awards consisted of one Gold Medal and four other Medals, 
three First-class Certificates, three Awards of Merit, three Botanical 
Certificates and two Cultural Commendations. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), staged a brilliant 
group, which occupied more than half the stage at the end of the Hall, and 
to which the Society’s Gold Medal was awarded. It contained a very fine 
series of Odontoglossums, prominent among them being forms of O. X 
amabile, crispum, X eximium, X Adriane, X Rolfez, Pescatorei, luteo- 
purpureum, Hunnewellianum, and X armainvilliereuse, O.  percultum 
Fairlawn var., a very richly blotched hybrid called O. x Ernestii, and another 
handsome seedling from O. X loochristiense crossed with a blotched O. 
crispum, Odontioda Vuylstekee, Craveniana, Bradshawie, Oncidium 
cucullatum, concolor, Trichopilia suavis, Maxillaria Sanderiana, Cymbidium 
insigne, some beautiful examples of Phaius X Norman and Wallichii. 
Cattleya Schroeder, white forms of C. intermedia, C. x Suzanne Hye de 
Crom, C. X Dusseldorfii Undine, a handsome Sophrocatlelia derived from 
Sophrolelia Cleopatra x C. gigas, some handsome Brassocattleyas, 
Dendrobiums, and other good things, of which only a fraction can be noted, 
Awards of Merit were given to Odontioda Goodsoniz, a very handsome 
scarlet hybrid with«some white markings, supposed to have been derived 
from Cochlioda Neetzlianaand Odontoglossum X armainvillierense, and to 
Odontoglossum X Ceres, Goodson’s var. (O. X Rolfez xX Rossii), a 
handsome thing, most like the latter in shape and markings, and having a 
broad white lip with only some brown dots on the yellow crest. 
Mrs. N. C. Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. Chapman), 
received a First-class Certificate for Odontoglossum x ardentissimum var. 
Norman Cookson, a remarkably fine form, having broad, deep, claret- 
coloured sepals and petals, margined and tipped with white, and a broad, 
handsomely blotched lip. The spike bore sixteen flowers. 
Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), received a First-class Certificate for Lycaste Skinneri helle- 
mensis, a very richly-coloured form, having deep rose sepals and petals, and 
a white lip blotched with purple. He also sent Cattleya x Apelles 
(Mendelii x Whitei), a richly coloured hybrid, Odontoglossum x amabile, 
Westonbirt var., O. x ardentissimum Westonbirt var., and O. Pescatorel, 
Westonbirt var., the latter, a finely-grown plant, bearing a panicle with nine 
side branches and about fifty flowers, receiving a Cultural Commendation. 
