308 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [OcTOBER, IQIO- 
sian Medal for a pretty little group, including some good examples of 
Cattleya x Adula and C. X Atalanta, a fine C. X Hardyana, Holford’s 
var., a light coloured C. x Williamsiz, Odontoglossum Uroskinneri album, 
Cypripedium X Maudie, &c. An Award of Merit was given to Cattleya X 
Adula, Vale Bridge var., a fine form, having cream-coloured sepals and 
petals tinged with rose, and a very broad magenta-rose lip. 
Messrs. Mansell & Hatcher, Rawdon, Leeds, -showed Eria bractescens, 
bearing erect spikes of greenish white flowers, and some reddish purple 
suffusion on the lip. 
Messrs. J. & A. A. McBean, Cooksbridge, sent Odontoglossum X arden- 
tissimum album, a good white form. 
M. Maurice Mertens, Mont-St.-Amand, Ghent, sent a few unnamed 
hybrid Odontoglossums, Miltonias, and a Cypripedium. 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, sent a plant of Cattleya x 
Hardyana, in which one flower had a pair of yellow blotches in the throat 
while the other had more of the yellow veining of C. Dowiana. 
At the meeting held on September 13th there was a very fine display of 
Orchids, and the awards consisted of seven medals, two First-class Certi- 
ficates, three Awards of Merit, one Botanical Certificate, and one Cultural 
Commendation. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), staged a bright 
and attractive group, to which a Silver Flora Medal was awarded. It 
contained some fine forms of Lzliocattleya bletchleyensis, L.-c. eximia, 
L.-c. Pacavia, Sophrocattleya Chamberlainii, S.-c. Norton, and other 
Sophronitis grandiflora hybrids, Oncidium Lanceanum, Odontoglossum X 
armainvillierense and others, Miltonia Phalenopsis, some fine varieties of 
Cattleya x Adula, X Mrs. J. W. Whiteley, &c. A First-class Certificate 
was given to Cattleya x Iris var. King Edward VII. (bicolor x Dowiana 
aurea), the inflorescence bearing six very large and handsome flowers, with 
yellowish green sepals and petals, tinged with rose, and the very — front 
lobe of the lip bright amethyst-purple. 
R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Chessington, Streatham (gr. Mr. Black), also 
received a Silver Flora Medal for a beautiful group, including Cattleya x 
Macznas (superba X Warscewiczii), C x Cleopatra (superba x Dowiana), 
and the intermediate hybrid from C. superba and C.:Hardyana—a very 
interesting series—some good C. xX Iris, Brassocattleya Leemannie, 
Sophrocattleyas, some good examples of Odontioda Thwaitesii, and O. X 
Wilsoni (C. vulcanica x O. Pescatorei), a very prétty hybrid, with the 
sepals and petals rosy lilac at the base and white above, and the lip showing 
much of the influence of O. Pescatorei. An Award of Merit was given to 
Cattleya x Adula, Thwaites’ var., a very fine thing, with rosy lilac sepals. 
