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18 THE’°ORCHID REVIEW. [JANUARY, 1907, 
visit, but being on a smaller scale than the one shown in a recent issue of 
the Gardener’s Chronicle (1906, ii. p. 367, fig. 141), and also taking in the 
whole of two houses, is hardly suitable for reproduction, though the details 
of the flowers can be made out readily with a lens. We, however, give an 
illustration of a fine plant which flowered several years ago in the collection 
of G. S. Ball, Esq., and one has only to imagine the flowers a soft greenish ~ 
_yellow tipped with white on the dorsal sepal to realise its beauty. The 4 
history of the variety has already been given, and it is fortunate thatso 
charming a plant should now be accessible to every Orchidist. 4 
SOCIETIES. q 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. ; ‘ 
THE meeting held on December gth was the last of the year, and brought — 
together a remarkable collection of Orchids, the awards consisting of one — 
Gold, one Lindley, and five other medals, four First-class Certificates, and — 
eight Awards of Merit. 
G. F. Moore, Esq., Bourton-on-the-Water (gr. Mr. Page), staged 4 4 
remarkable group, which occupied two-thirds of the end staging in the — 
Hall with a nearly equal space on one of the sides, to which the Society’s — 
Gold Medal was awarded. The group consisted largely of finely grown and | 
flowered Cypripedes, particularly C. insigne, of which about two hundred — 
forms were present, and these were set off to advantage by selections of 
Oncidium varicosum, Dendrobium Phalznopsis, Vanda ccerulea, Odonto- i 
glossums, etc. Among the more noteworthy features may be mentioned al ' 
almost complete series of the yellow forms of C. insigne, the Harefield Hall | 
variety, with seventeen flowers, and the curious three-lipped variety Oddity ’ 
(which is figured at page 57 of our eighth volume). C. x Leeanum and C. 
x Acteeus were also represented by a gocd series of varieties, while C. X 
Mrs. E. V. Low, C. x Blanche Moore, and forms of C. x Niobe were very 
beautiful. 
Mrs. T. B. Haywood, Woodhatch, Reigate (gr. Mr. Salter), staged 2 
remarkable collection of eighteen large specimens of Masdevallia tovarensis; — 
each bearing over a hundred spikes of its charming pure white flowers, the - 
Lindley Medal being deservedly awarded. For a full account of these 
plants and their culture see pp- 69, 70 of our last volume. | 
Jeremiah Colman, Esq., Gatton Park (gr. Mr. Bound), was awarded 4 
Silver Flora Medal for a beautiful group, containing many varieties of 
Cypripedium insigne, including the Harefield Hall var., and several val- 
Sander, a fine Masdevallia cucullata, bearing thirteen of its claret-coloured © 
flowers, a lot of Sophronitis grandiflora, and several Lelio-cattleyas raised 
in the collection, including epicasta and Phryne (the latter figured at pas® — 
17). An Award of Merit was given to Dendrobium Phalznopsis Gatton 
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