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SOCIETIES. 
RoyaL HORTICULURAL. 
THE Hortvanp House SHow. 
THE Summer Show of the Royal Horticultural Society was held at Holland 
House, Kensington, on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 5th and 6th, and was 
a great success. The display of Orchids was excellent, and the awards 
consisted of two Gold Medals, three Silver Cups, one Silver-gilt Medal, two 
First-class Certificates and three Awards of Merit. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), 
staged a very rich and varied group, to which a Gold Medal was awarded. 
It contained a large raised bank of showy things, with numerous small and 
rare species in front. Prominent in the centre were some fine Cattleyas 
and Lzeliocattleyas, including the beautiful Cattleya Rex, C. Warscewiczii, 
King Edward VII., a magnificent form, with a very dark purple-crimson lip 
and two small whitish blotches in the throat, some fine Lzeliocattleya 
Canhamiana and var. alba, L.-c. Phoebe, some well-flowered Oncidium 
macranthum, O. superbiens and other species, some beautiful Odonto- 
glossums, including O. XxX Thompsonianum, O. X Lady Roxburgh 
(cirrhosum X percultum), a graceful and beautiful spotted hybrid, O. x 
_ Gatton Glory (triumphans xX percultum), Dendrobium x Arthur Askworth 
(Brymerianum X pulchellum), a pretty yellow flower with fringed lip 
bearing two maroon blotches at the base, Zygopetalum rostratum and the 
handsome Z. X Roeblingianum, Brassia longissima, Cochlioda Neetzliana, 
some good Odontioda Bradshawie, a lot of Cypripedium callosum Sandere, 
the beautiful white Miltonia vexillaria Queen Alexandra, M. x Bleuana 
nobilior, the rare Eriopsis rutidobulbon, Cirrhopetalum pulchrum and 
biflorum, Bulbophyllum barbigerum, inflatum, Godseffianum, lemniscatoides, 
and the remarkable B. grandiflorum, Gongora quinquenervis, the woolly 
Eria pannea, Nephelaphyllum pulchrum, Masdevallia calura, melanoxantha, 
_ cucullata, gargantua, and various others, Coelogyne Schilleriana, Epidendrum 
prismatocarpum, Brassavole, fragrans and alatum, Physosiphon Loddi- 
gesii, Pleurothallis stenopetala, the graceful Dendrochilum filiforme, 
Eulophia Ledienii, &c. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), received a Silver 
Flora Medal for a small and choice group, including Cattleya Gaskelliana, 
Mrs. Goodson, a pretty white form with a purple spot on the front of the 
lip, C. X F. W. Wigan, Warscewiczella Wailesiana, a fine example of 
Odontoglossum X -Wiganianum, O. X eximium, O. x Lambeauianum var. 
St. David, O. x illustre Radium, Cochlioda Neetzliana, Odontioda 
heatonensis, Leliocattleya Acis (C. Mendelii x L. tenebrosa), and the rare 
Dendrobium Williamsianum. 
