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other hybrids of the same group have since flowered, both at Westonbirt, 
namely B.-c. Digbyano-Forbesii (O.R. xiv. p. 350) and B.-c. Pluto (xv. 
p- 39), in the latter case C. granulosa being the seed parent. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyAL HorRTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING of this Society was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Westminster, on March 5th, when there was a fine display of Orchids, 
though there was considerable difficulty in staging them, owing to the 
Exhibition of South African Products ‘being held at the same time. The 
consequence was that the groups were much scattered, while the Committee 
exhibits were ultimately discovered in a room upstairs, which was also 
partly devoted to other purposes. The awards consisted of one Gold and — 
four other Medals, four First-class Certificates, six Awards of Merit and 
two Cultural Commendations. 
Jeremiah Colman, Esq., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Bound), staged 
a magnificent group, on the further side of the Hall, opposite to the 
entrance, to which the Society’s Goid Medal was awarded. It consisted 
largely of Dendrobiums, with a fine lot of Calanthe Regnieri in the centre, 
and examples of Epidendrum xX Boundii at each end. There were also 
good selections of Cattleya Triane, Cypripediums, Odontoglossums, a fine 
Cymbidium grandiflorum, Ceelogyne x Colmanii (figured at page 73 of our 
last issue), and other good things. The Dendrobiums were far too 
numerous to particularise, but included fifteen named varieties of D. nobile, 
a fine series of D. x Ainsworthii and D. x Rubens varieties, a well-grown 
D. signatum with some of its hybrids, the whole being finely grown and 
very effectively arranged. There were also some Spathoglottis hybrids, to 
one of which, namely S. X Colmanii aureum, an Award of Merit was given. 
It had deep yellow flowers with a small ruby-coloured spot on the crest. — 
Canon the Hon. R. F. Gibbs, Aldenham Vicarage, Watford (gr. Mr. — 
Lazzall), was awarded a Silver Flora Medal for six beautiful specimens of — 
Ccelogyne cristata, crowded with flowers, a Cultural Commendation being — 
also awarded to Mr. Lazzell. | 
Major G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gt: Mr 
Alexander), sent a fine example of Ceelogyne insigne with two spikes, the 
best having fourteen flowers, Dendrobium X melanodiscus var. Radiance, — 
a fine example of the yellow D. x Ophir, and a beautiful specimen of 
Sophrolelia Psyche, with eighteen of its brilliant flowers, to which @ — 
Cultural Commendation was given. Awards of Merit were given t0 
Cypripedium x vil-exul, a beautiful yellow flower, to Odontoglossum x 
mirum Lady Howick (x Wilckeanum X crispum Calypso), a handsome — 
thing heavily blotched with chocolate-purple on a white ground, and to 
