THE ORCHID: REVIEW, 
Vow. I.] JUEY, 1893. [No, .7. 
NOTES. 
THE Silver-gilt Flora Medal offered by the Royal Horticultural Society at 
its meeting on June 6th, for the best seedling Orchid not exhibited previous 
to January I, 1593, was awarded to Messrs. F. Sander and Co., of St. 
Albans, for a very pretty little hybrid between Lelia pumila Dayana ? and 
Cattleya dolosa J, to which the name of Lelio-cattleya Maynardii has been 
given. A description of the plant is given in another column. 
The show of Orchids on this occasion was somewhat smaller than usual, 
doubtless owing to the efforts made at the recent Temple Show ; neverthe- 
less a number of very attractive Orchids were exhibited. 
One very pretty Orchid which figured on this occasion was Masdevallia 
x Veitchiano-Estrade, a hybrid raised by Captain Hincks, of ‘Terrace 
House, Richmond, Yorkshire, whose parentage is commemorated in its 
name. The plant is at present very small, but the flower is a beautiful deep 
apricot, or nearly orange colour, studded with iridescent amethyst-coloured 
hairs. 
Masdevallias are favourites with Captain Hincks. For some time he 
has been engaged in hybridising them, and with considerable success, as M. 
x Hincksiana, M. x Stella, and M. x Cassiope, have all originated in his 
collection. Another handsome hybrid between M. ignea and M. racemosa 
has also just flowered, as will be seen by the description on another page. 
' Disa x kewensis is a very interesting hybrid which has just flowered at 
Kew, from seed sown in November, 1891. The first flower opened in May, 
when the plant was eighteen months old, and therefore beats the record for 
quickness of flowering from the time of sowing the seed. It is a pretty 
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