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DECEMBER, 1910.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 365, 
At the meeting held on November 22nd, there was a very fine display of 
Orchids, and the Awards consisted of eight medals, three First-class 
Certificates, three Awards of Merit, and one Cultural Commendation. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), staged a very 
beautiful group, to which a Silver-gilt Flora Medal was given. It contained 
a number of good Odontoglossums, Cattleya x Iris and others, Lelio- 
cattleya Myrrha (C. Dowiana Rosita x L.-c. Gottoiana), a fine yellowish- 
rose flower, and other Lzliocattleyas, some good Cypripedium X Leeanum, 
including C. x L. Clinkaberryanum with seven flowers, a number of C. 
insigne Sanderze, and numerous other fine Cypripedes. Mr. Goodson also 
exhibited about 130 coloured paintings of Orchids, from plants in his collec- 
tion, making a most imposing display. An Award of Merit was given to 
Sophrocatlelia Althza (C. Percivaliana xX S.-l. Gratrixiz), a handsome 
hybrid, having salmon-rose sepals and petals, and a three-lobed, ruby- 
- crimson lip, with some yellow in the throat. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, 5S. Woodford (gr. Mr. Davis), 
received a Silver Flora Medal for a fine group, including some good 
Odontoglossums, Masdevallias, Lycastes, and Cypripediums, among the 
latter being some fine C. insigne Sandere, varieties of C. Leeanum, C. Xx 
Tityus superbum, x Baron Schréder, X triumphans, X Thalia, the. 
richly-coloured C. X gigas, Glebelands var., &c. 
S. Larkin, Esq., The Ridgeways, Haslemere, (gr. Mr. Hale), received a 
Silver Banksian Medal for a good group, containing two plants of 
Cymbidium Tracyanum, some good Lzeliocattleyas, including one derived 
from Lelia pumila and C. x Hardyana, Oncidium incurvum, Cypri- 
pediums, &c. An Award of Merit was given to a finely-grown Cattleya X 
lucida (Bowringiana X Schilleriana), bearing three large heads of ten to 
twelve, bright rose-purple flowers, with a light throat to the lip anda 
whitish margin to the front lobe. 
Pantia Ralli, Esq., Ashtead Park, Epsom (gr. Mr. Hunt), also received 
4 Silver Banksian Medal for a group of splendidly grown Calanthe x Bryan 
and C. x William Murray. The plants are grown in six inch pots, the 
bulbs large, and some of the spikes as much as three feet long. 
Lt.-Col. Sir George L. Holford, K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alex- 
ander), received a First-class Certificate for Cypripedium x Minotaur 
(Euryades x Minnie), a very handsome hybrid, having a broad white dor- 
sal sepal, with a small yellow-green base, numerous violet-purple blotches, 
and a median band of similar colour; while the petals and lip are yellow, 
the former veined and the latter tinged with brown. 
Col. Cary-Batten, Abbots Leigh, Clifton, Bristol (gr. Mr. Spowage), 
received a Cultural Commendation for a fine specimen of Oncidium 
tigrinum, bearing a single panicle with as many as 53 flowers. 
