306 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [OcToBER, 1910. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyAL HorTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING of this Society was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on August 30th, when there was a very good 
display of Orchids, and the awards consisted of five medals, one First-class 
Certificate, three Awards of Merit, one Botanical Certificate, and one 
Cultural Commendation. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), staged a choice 
group, to which a Silver Flora Medal was given. It contained a good 
Anguloa eburnea, Odontoglossum Uroskinneri album, O. ramosissimum, 
O. X Goodsonz, Miltonia spectabilis Moreliana, Cypripedium x Rossetti, 
a good C. x Shillianum with three spikes and an aggregate of nine flowers, 
some pretty Sophrolelias, Cattleya Gaskelliana alba with six flowers, 
several fine forms of C. x Adula, and C. x Atalanta with a fine spike. A 
First-class Certificate was given to C. x Rhoda, Fairlawn var. (Iris X 
Hardyana), a very richly-coloured form of good shape, having bronzy purple 
sepals and petals, and a deep claret-crimson lip, with some yellow veining 
at the base, and a white column. 
Lt.-Col. Sir G. L. Holford, K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander), 
received an Award of Merit for Cattleya x Hardyana, Holford’s var., a 
very fine form, having rosy lilac sepals and petals, and a very richly-coloured 
lip, with some yellow veining and a pair of yellow blotches in the throat, 
and for Leliocattleya Golden Oriole var. tigrina (L.-c. Charlesworthii x 
C. Dowiana aurea), a very beautiful hybrid, bearing an inflorescence of six 
flowers, having golden yellow sepals and petals, veined with red, and the 
lip ruby-crimson with some yellow veining at the base. He also sent a 
plant of the handsome L.-c. Lustre magnifica. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V -O., Burford (gr. Mr. White), 
received a Botanical Certificate for Dendrobium karoense, a very curious 
little species from New Guinea, recalling some Pleurothallis in habit, and 
bearing solitary white flowers from the axil of the leaf. He also received a 
Cultural Commendation for a very fine specimen of Platyclinis filiformis, 
literally crowded with its graceful pendulous spikes of yellow flowers. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), 
sent a pretty little group, including two well-bloomed plants of the orange- 
scarlet Lelia monophylla, Sigmatostalix radicans, Polystachya paniculata, 
Maxillaria striata, Cirrhopetalum guttulatum, a fine form of Cryptophor- 
anthus Dayanus, and several good forms of Masdevallia Chimera. 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), sent 
the handsome Odontoglossum x Theodora (Rossii x triumphans), O. Xx 
Lambeauianum Starlight, a pretty light-coloured form with minute purple 
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