THE ORCHID REVIEW. 155 
ORCHIDS AT THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
By JOHN WEATHERS. 
AT the Royal Horticultural Society’s Flower Show in the Drill Hall, James 
Street, Victoria Street, Westminster, on March 27th, there was a very fair 
display of Orchids. 
The President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. 
W. H. White), was awarded a Silver Flora Medal for a charming collection 
in which Dendrobiums were prominent, among them being the white and 
deep magenta D. superbum Huttoni, which received a First-class Certificate, 
the wholly white D. s. Burkei, D. Tattonianum, D. x cheltenhamense 
(D. aureum 2.x D. luteolum 2), and the deep purple D. x Wardiano- 
nobile. Other noteworthy objects were Eria aéridostachya with drooping 
racemes, and what was named Maxillaria Lawrenceana, with slender 
bulbiferous stems, and pale primrose flowers, each of these plants receiving 
a Botanical Certificate. A fine spike of Odontoglossum coronarium miniatum 
must also be mentioned. 
E. Ashworth, Esq., F.R.H.S., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow, Cheshire (gr. 
Mr. H. Holbrook), exhibited his variety of Dendrobium Findlayanum, 
in which the sepals and petals were pure white, the lip having a pale 
yellow disc. 
John T. Bennett-Poé, Esq., F.R.H.S., Holmwood, Cheshunt, exhibited 
a superb form of Cypripedium Boxallii. 
Norman C. Cookson, Esq., F.R.H.S., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. 
Mr. W. Murray), exhibited and obtained a Cultural Commendation for 
Dendrobium x Venus, a hybrid with vivid purple flowers in which the lip 
is conspicuously enlarged. 
Sir John Edwards-Moss, Bart., F.R.H.S., Thamesfield, Henley-on- 
Thames (gr. Mr. G. Hatch), obtained a Cultural Commendation for a 
specimen plant of Selenipedium caudatum bearing eighteen flowers on seven 
spikes. In addition was a plant of Odontoglossum x baphicanthum with 
yellow flowers streaked with brown. 
Mrs. Haselfoot, Moor Hill, Southampton (gr. Mr. Blandford), sent a fine 
blooming stem of Dendrobium Wardianum. 
A Bronze Banksian Medal was awarded to Messrs. W. L. Lewis and Co., 
Chase Side, Southgate, N., for a collection in which were chiefly noticeable 
Vanda tricolor, Lewis’s var., Oncidium superbiens, several Odontoglossums, 
Ada aurantiaca, and a Cypripedium x Smithii, which has a large quantity 
of C. Lawrenceanum blood in its veins. 
Messrs. Linden, Parc Leopold, Brussels, exhibited a two-fiowered scape 
of Cypripedium x Lucianianum. 
Méssrs. Hugh Low and Co., Upper Clapton, N.E., exhibited several 
