SEPTEMBER, 1906. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 275 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING of this Society was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on August 14th, when there was a fine 
display of Orchids for the season, and the awards consisted of five Medals, 
two Cultural Commendations, one Award of Merit; and one Botanical 
Certificate. 
R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. Smith), 
sent a very interesting little group, to which a Silver Banksian Medal was 
awarded. It contained some good forms of Cattleya Warscewiczii, 
Coelogyne Massangeana, Leelio-cattleya Remula, the rare Brassia Keiliana, 
Cypripedium XX Wottoni and various other hybrids, Scaphosepalum 
pulvinare, Pleurothallis scapha, Masdevallia Carderi, Saccolabium 
ampullaceum, and various other species. 
E. Roberts, Esq., Park Lodge, Eltham (gr. Mr. Carr), received an 
Award of Merit for Cypripedium xX Harri-Leeanum Park Lodge var. 
(Harrisianum superbum xX Leeanum), a handsome form, having a large 
rose-coloured dorsal sepal, with a white margin and numerous dark purple 
feathered lines, while the petals and lip were broad and heavily suffused 
with reddish purple. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. White), sent a 
very pretty group of rarities, including two well-bloomed specimens of 
Odontoglossum aspidorhinum, Dendrobium glomeratum, the rare Oncidium 
panduratum, Catasetum fimbriatum and its variety platypterum, Cycnoches 
maculatum, and C. Egertonianum viride, the latter receiving a Botanical 
Certificate. A Cultural Commendation was given to a fine specimen of 
Platyclinis filiformis, bearing about one hundred of its graceful spikes of 
greenish yellow flowers. 
Major G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), received a Cultural Commendation for a noble example of 
Odontoglossum xX crispo-Harryanum. The two inflorescences from a 
single bulb were 5} feet long, one bearing 24 flowers, the other with eleven 
branches and 49 flowers, a remarkable example of good culture. 
Jeremiah Colman, Esq., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Bound), sent 
fine forms of Lelio-cattleya Nysa, L.-c. bletchleyensis, L.-c. Phryne, 
L.-c. Atalanta and L.-c. elegans Schroederiana. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, S. Woodford (gr. Mr. Davis), sent 
two good: forms of Lzlio-cattleya elegans, the handsome Cattleya 4 
Wavriniana Fowler’s var., bearing a strong spike of six flowers, Cypripe- 
dium x Penelope (Morganie X superbiens), and the richly coloured C. X 
bingleyense var Aineas. 
