146 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ May, 1907. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyaL HORTICULTURAL. 
THE first meeting of the month was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on April 2nd, when there was a very fine 
display of Orchids, and the awards consisted of seven medals, one First- 
class Certificate, and four Awards of Merit. 
J. Bradshaw, Esq., The Grange, Southgate (gr. Mr. Whitelegge), 
staged a very fine group, which received a Silver-gilt Medal. | It contained 
numerous choice forms of Cattleya Triane, white and coloured, the former 
occupying the centre, bearing an aggregate of about forty blooms, C. 
Schroederee, with the richly-coloured variety W. Duckworth, some good 
examples of Oncidium concolor, a good selection of Lycaste Skinnerl, 
including about twenty flowers of var. alba, &c., with Cymbidium Lowi- 
anum at the back. An Award of Merit was given to Cattleya Triane 
Mooreana, having light rosy lilac petals with a purple feather at the tip, 
and a richly-coloured lip. 
N. C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam (gr. Mr. Chapman), also received 
a Silver-gilt Flora Medal for a brilliant group, containing some very richly- 
blotched forms of Odontoglossum crispum, the beautifully spotted O. 
Pescatorei Thompsonianum, good examples of O. x loochristiense and O. 
xX Adriane, a very dark O. X Vuylstekei, a superb specimen of Phaius X 
Cooksoni with nineteen spikes, a series of P. xX Norman, P. x Clive, a 
fine example of Dendrobium x Sibyl superbum, and other good things. 
Major G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), received a First-class Certificate for Lzlio-cattleya Baroness 
Schréder, Westonbirt var. (L. Jongheana x C. Trianz), a remarkably fine 
form, having rose-pink sepals and petals, with darker veins, and a darker 
lip, with a deep orange throat. He also sent a fine cut example of Dendro- 
bium fimbriatum oculatum, Westonbirt var. 
C. J. Lucas, Esq., Warnham Court, Horsham (gr. Mr. Duncan), received 
an Award of Merit for Lzlio-cattleya Lawrie (C. Lawrenceana X L.-¢ 
warnhamensis), a handsome thing, having bright purple flowers with a 
darker lip. Several examples were shown, varying in colour from bronzy 
orange to deep rose-purple. 
W. Waters Butler, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, sent the brightly- 
coloured Odontoglossum X Wilckeanum King of Spain, and a fine example 
of Cymbidium insigne, one of the spikes bearing ten flowers, which had 
been open for a month, but were still good. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, S. Woodford (gr. Mr. Davis), 
showed a brightly-coloured yellow Odontoglossum, blotched with brow” | 
with the ground colour of the lip white. It was near O. x Hallio-crispu™ 
