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Jongheana, Cypripedium callosum Sandere, C. glaucophyllum, C. X 
aureum Surprise, and others. 
Mr. W. P. Horton, Cravenhurst, Seaford, sent a good group of Dendro- 
biums, Odontoglossums, and Cypripediums. 
Mr. H. A. Inness, Croft Spa, Yorks, sent a good Lycaste Skinneri alba, 
a fine dark Masdevallia Chimera, and two light forms of Cattleya Triane. 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, sent a very good group, including 
varieties of Cattleya Trianz, Leliocattleya callistoglossa, Brassocattleya 
Thorntoni, Odontoglossum crispum, O. Pescatorei, O. triumphans, and 
some good examples of Cypripedium X Countess of Carnarvon. 
AT the meeting held on March 23rd there was a fine display of Orchids, 
though not much in the way of novelty, and the awards consisted of ten 
Medals, three Awards of Merit, and two Cultural Commendations. 
Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander), 
received a Silver Flora Medal for a choice group, including Cattleya Trianz 
Empress of India, a beautiful white form with the front of the lip mauve- 
purple, Lzliocattleya Tarquinius (L.-c. callistoglossa x C. Schilleriana), a 
large and brilliantly-coloured hybrid, L.-c. Tigris (L. Cowanii x L.-c. 
Dominiana), and various other hybrids. There were also two remarkable 
Cymbidiums, C. xX eburneo-Lowianum, with 32 spikes and 115 flowers, the 
best of them bearing seven, and C. X Lowio-eburneum Westonbirt var., 
with 19 spikes and gt flowers, and for these Cultural Commendations were 
given to Mr. Alexander. Awards of Merit were given to Dendrobium X 
Schneiderianum Westonbirt var. (aureum X Findlayanum), a very beautiful 
variety, most like D. Findlayanum in shape, the colour white, with rosy 
tips to the segments, and the disc of the lip deep orange-yellow, and to 
Brassocattleya Digbyano-Mendelii perfecta, a model flower, of delicate 
blush-pink tint, with the disc of the lip cowslip yellow. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), received a Silver 
Flora Medal for a fine group of Cattleyas, Dendrobiums, Odontoglossums, 
and others, noteworthy among them being a pretty albino form of Lelia 
Jongheana, called Nellie Blanche, white, with the disc of the lip orange- 
coloured, a form of Odontioda Goodsoniz, with the flowers uniformly red, 
Cattleya Sohroederee The Prince, Odontoglossum crispum Ernest Henry, 
white, with violet-purple blotches, and other good things, 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, S. Woodford (gr. Mr. Davis), 
received an Award of Merit for ‘‘ Sophro-Lzlio-Cattleya Olive” (Sophro- 
lelia Psyche X Cattleya X Enid), a promising hybrid bearing a three- 
flowered inflorescence, the flowers being reddish-mauve, with deep yellow 
markings on the lip. He also sent the brilliant Sophrolelia Psyche fer 
comparison. 
