106 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [APRIL, 1906. 
recollects flowers similar to the re-introduced C. Fairrieanum, but agrees — 
that no particular value was attached to them by her father. It is rather 
curious that this earlier appearance of C. hirsutissimum should not have 
been recorded, as it carries the history of the species back to the autumn 
of 1855, but how long the plant had then been in the collection cannot be 
stated. Mr. Fairrie came to Liverpool in 1847, and: commenced then to 
buy Orchids, and the collection was sold in 1865, when he left Mosley Hill, 
being purchased by Messrs. Rollisson for £3,000. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
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SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING of this Society was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on March 6th, when there was a magni- 
ficent display of Orchids, and the awards issued consisted of one Gold and 
ten other Medals, three First-class Certificates, seven Awards of Merit, 
three Cultural Commendations, and one Botanical Certificate. 
W. A. Bilney, Esq., Fir Grange, Weybridge (gr. Mr. Whitlock), staged 
a magnificent group, occupying one side of one of the central stages in the } 
Hall, to which a Gold Medal was awarded. It consisted chiefly of 
Dendrobiums, and contained many fine forms of D. x Ainsworthii and D. 
nobile, the latter including the pure white D. n. album and numerous 
examples of D. n. nobilius. Among the more noteworthy forms were D. x= 
Ai ii H var., D. X A. splendidissimum, D. X Cybele ‘ 
D. x C. nobilius, D. x pallens, D. x xanthocentram, D. x Wigania, D.— 
x Wiganianum and its varieties, D. Wardianum and its hybrids, D- albo- 
gui D. B i D. X Melpomene, D. thyrsiflorum, and 
numerous others. The group also contained some good Cymbidium 
eburneum, Odontoglossums, Oncidiums, and other plants. 
The Hon. Walter Rothschild, Tring Park, Tring (gr. Mr. Dye), seat? 
group of the stately Lissochilus Horsfallii, Batem. (Bot. Mag. t- 5486), 4 
native of West Africa. It has been grown as a river-bank plant, in tubs 
water, with Nympheas, and when growing strongly frequent waterings with 
liquid manure were given. The species bears large plicate leaves and tay 
erect scapes of very numerous flowers. These have recurved green sé 
tinged and lined with dark purple, orbicular white petals suffused with 108% 
and a three-lobed lip, with the front deep rose-purple, and the side a 
green lined with dull purple. A group of four plants was shown, one of i 
bearing three spikes, the best nearly five feet high. The species “— 
awarded a First-class Certificate, and a Silver-gilt Flora Medal was evel 
to the group. 
