FrBruary, 1909.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 49 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyaL HORTICULTURAL. 
THE first meeting of the year was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on January 12th last, and produced a good 
display of Orchids, eighteen exhibitors being represented, and the awards 
consisted of three medals, one First-class Certificate, three Awards of 
Merit, and one Cultural Commendation. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), staged 
avery interesting group, to which a Silver Flora Medal was given. It 
contained a good example of Cymbidium grandiflorum, C. X Lady Colman, a 
selection of Lelia anceps varieties, including Hilliana and Gatton Park 
var., the latter having a lilac tinge on the front lobe of the lip, the handsome 
Spathoglottis x .Colmanii, a well-bloomed Epidendrum polybulbon, 
Warscewiczella velata, Bulbophyllum Careyanum, the rare Eria tricolor, 
Phaiocalanthe Colmanii, Coelogyne x Colmanii, &c. 
Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury, (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), received an Award of Merit for a good example of Vanda 
-Watsoni, the graceful species figured as the frontispiece to our last volume, 
and a similar award for Cattleya x Maggie Raphael, Westonbirt var., a 
very beautiful form, having light rose-coloured sepals and petals, the latter 
showing a silvery white veining, and the lip deep ruby crimson, with some 
deep yellow veining in thethroat. He also sent Brassocattleya Leemanniz 
var. Rajah, a large and very prettily coloured variety, with Cypripedium X 
Beryl and C. x Bellerophon, two very fine hybrids. 
Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. 
Chapman), received an Award of Merit for Odontoglossum X ardentissimum 
Norman Cookson, a beautiful variety, having broad white sepals and petals, 
with the lower two-thirds of each heavily blotched with violet-purple. 
Baron Sir H. Schréder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), received 
a Cultural Commendation for a fine specimen plant of Masdevallia ignea, 
bearing over seventy flowers. 
H. J. Bromilow, Esq., Rann Lea, Rainhill, Lancs. (gr. Mr. Morgan), sent 
a fine example of Cypripedium x A®son giganteum, and a pretty albino form 
of C. Charlesworthii called Bromilowiz, having a pale green flower, with a 
white dorsal sepal. It differs in shape from the one previously shown, which 
is now known as C. C. Bromilowianum. 
Walter Cobb, Esq., Rusper (gr. Mr. Salter), showed the pretty 
Cypripedium Helen II. var. Armstrongie (insigne Sander X bellatulum 
album). 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. 
White), showed Maxillaria callichroma and a richly coloured Odontoglossum 
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