275 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [SEPTEMBER, 1910. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyAL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, 
Westminster, on August 2nd, when a few interesting Orchids were sent, 
and the Orchid Committee gave one Award of Merit, a Botanical Certificate, 
and a Cultural Commendation. The Hall, however, was nearly deserted, 
and the plants were for the most part being packed up soon after the Com- 
mittee meeting was over. We think it was a mistake to hold a meeting on 
the day after an August Bank holiday, especially when two other meetings 
fell due during the month. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., Burford (gr. Mr. White), 
received a Cultural Commendation for a magnificent specimen of Oncidium 
incurvum, bearing twenty-seven tall inflorescences of white and purple 
flowers, and a Botanical Certificate for Dendrobium Bullenianum, a pretty 
Philippine species, bearing rounded heads of reddish orange flowers, striped 
with purple. 
Lt.-Col. Sir G. L. Holford, K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander), 
received an Award of Merit for a plant called Cattleya Warscewiczii var. 
Othello, but which was evidently a form of C. x Hardyana, as it had more 
of the C. Dowiana shape, and less spreading petals, the latter being rosy 
purple in colour, while the lip was intense purple-crimson, with some deep 
yellow on the sides of the throat and some yellow veining at the base. 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), sent 
the elegant Odontoglossum x Nerissa, in which the characters of O. nzevium 
and O. crispum are well combined, a sulphur-yellow form of O. X armain- 
villierense (Pescatorei X crispum aureum rosefieldiense), with O. x Astarte 
and O. X Amneris, all raised in the collection. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), showed Odontioda 
Goodsone var. Herbertii, a good dark scarlet form, and Odontoglossum 
crispum Herbertui, a well-spotted form. 
J. S. Moss, Esq., Wintershill, Bishops Waltham (gr. Mr. Kench), sent 
the new hybrid Odontoglossum x Mauritania (O. sceptrum x Rolfez), 
which is described on page 286. 
W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens), sent 
Masdevallia coccinea Gravesiz, the so-called white es in which, however, 
the flowers have a distinct buff-yellow tinge. 
Mr. E. V. Low, Vale Bridge, Haywards Heath, sent Cattleya x Pittiana, 
C. Gaskelliana alba, Laliocattleya Lambeauiana rubra, and Brassocattleya 
Dante (C. Grossii x B. Digbyana). 
Messrs. J. & A. A. McBean, Cooksbridge, sent a fine form of Cattleya x 
Germania, with an inflorescence of eleven flowers on the spike. 
