254 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
AT the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society held at the Drill Hall, 
James Street, Westminster, on July 12th, there was a great falling off in 
the number of exhibits, as is usual at this period. The members of the 
Orchid Committee present were as follows :—H. J. Veitch, Esq. (in the 
chair), and Messrs. J. O’Brien (hon. sec.), H. Ballantine, H. J. Chapman, 
W. Cobb, De B. Crawshay, S. Courtauld, J. Douglas, E. Hill, H. Little, 
H. M. Pollett, W. H. Protheroe, A. H. Smee, W. H. White, H. Williams, 
and W. H. Young. 
J. W. Temple, Esq., Leyswood, Groombridge (gr. Mr. Bristow), staged 
a brilliant group of Cattleya Warscewiczii. It contained forty-three plants, 
bearing an aggregate of over 160 flowers, and showed a range of variation 
from the lightest to the darkest forms. Many of the plants were from an 
importation made in 1883. A Silver Flora Medal was deservedly awarded. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. White), showed 
Vanda X Miss Joaquim, with a splendid inflorescence of twelve flowers and 
three buds (Cultural Commendation), and Oncidium albo-verrucosum, a 
supposed new species, bearing an inflorescence of bright yellow flowers, 
with some brown bars on the sepals, and a white warted crest, some of the 
flowers being abortive (Botanical Certificate). 
H. Hicks, Esq., Bramwood, Chelmsford (gr. Mr. Machar), showed a 
splendid specimen of Dendrobium Dearei, with pseudobulbs over 3 feet 
long, and bearing thirteen fine spikes. The largest pseudobulb bore three 
racemes and an aggregate of thirty-three flowers, and four spikes had 
previously been cut. It was stated that the plant had been in the collection 
for four years, and on a previous occasion had been in bloom more or less 
continuously from April until the following February. A Silver Banksian 
Medal aud a Cultural Commendation were awarded. 
Baron Sir H. Schréder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), sent a 
branched inflorescence of Odontoglossum crispum, having white flowers 
with a few light purple blotches in front of the lip’s crest. 
Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart., Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. Young), 
sent Cattleya Warscewiczii var. Rothschildiana, a handsome form devoid of 
the yellow blotches on the bright purple lip. 
Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, Enfield, showed the chaste 
Cattleya Gaskelliana alba, and a pretty blush-tinted form of the species, also 
Bulbophyllum Dearei, a pretty form of Odontoglossum citrosmum having 
the flowers spotted with rose, Cypripedium X Alice, and C. x T. W. Bond. 
Mr. W. Bull, Chelsea, showed Oncidium macranthum chelseense, a 
fine torm having purple-tinted sepals and a purple blotch at the base of the 
