374 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
CoNSIDERING the season, there was a fine display of Orchids at the Royal 
Horticultural Society’s meeting, at the Drill Hall, James Street, West- 
minster, on November 14th, including two decided novelties in the beautiful 
albino forms of Cypripedium Charlesworthii and Cattleya maxima, from the 
collections of Fred. Hardy, Esq. and Hamar Bass, Esq., respectively, which 
are described in the following report :— 
Hamar Bass, Esq., Byrkley, Burton-on-Trent (gr. Mr. Hamilton), 
received a First-class Certificate for the beautiful albino, Cattleya maxima 
alba, in which the whole flower was pure white, with the exception of a 
broad light-yellow line along the disc, the latter being characteristic of the 
species. It is further interesting as the first albino of this species which we 
are able to trace. 
Fred. Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey (gr. Mr. Stafford), 
received an Award of Merit for a most int ing plant provisionally called 
Cypripedium Fred. Hardy, but which we suspect is an albino of C. 
Charlesworthii. It has the general character of this species, but the leaves 
have lost the purple markings, the scape is light green, the petals and lip are 
light greenish yellow, and the dorsal sepal white, with a little purple stain 
at the base. The staminode is exactly as in the type. When exhibited the 
flowers were not fully developed. A fine form of Cattleya x Hardyana 
also came from the same collection. 
W. J. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone, Staffs. (gr. Mr. Stevens), 
received a Silver Banksian Medal for a group of fine cut spikes of Cattleya 
labiata, Pec a form with very large flowers, Cypripedium x Fascinator, 
Od x And O. gloriosum, O. Pescatorei, O. grande, 
and seca fine forms of O. crispum, to one of which, called var. Golden 
Queen, an Award of Merit was given. It is a large and handsome form with 
light-yellow ground and broad segments spotted with brown, as in some 
forms of O. x Wilckeanum, to which it would be referred but for the fact 
that the shape is almost that of O. crispum. 
Baron Sir H. Schréder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), sent a 
raceme =o the Benmore white Cattleya labiata Countess Fitzwilliam, and a 
£ Cymbidium Tracyanum with eighteen enormous 
: to which a Cultural Commendation was given. 
H. S. Leon, Esq., Bletchley Park, Bletchley (gr. Mr. Hislop), showed a 
splendid plant of Lelia pumila prestans with eleven large and_ richly 
coloured flowers, including two twin-flowered scapes. A Cultural Com- 
mendation was awarded. He also sent Cattleya labiata venosa, a striking 
form irregularly veined and streaked with darker purple, much in the way 
of C. 1. Peetersii. 
