146 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1909. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyaL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING of this Society was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, on April 6th, when there was a very fine 
display of Orchids, and the awards consisted of one Gold and eight other 
medals, four First-class Certificates, five Awards of Merit, and two 
Botanical Certificates. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), received a Silver 
Flora Medal for a fine group, including some good Cattleyas, Odonto- 
glossums, &c., noteworthy among them being Odontoglossum x Lambeau- 
ianum Goodson’s var., O. crispum Mrs. Goodson, O. X Wilckeanum, 
Cattleya intermedia alba, Sophrocatlelia Marathon, a good example of 
Odontioda Bradshawie, and others. A First-class Certificate was given to 
Odontioda ‘“‘Ernest Henry,” derived from Cochlioda Neetzliana and 
Odontoglossum X Queen Alexandra, and having flowers of a nearly uniform 
colour, between dark reddish brown and claret, with an orange disc to 
the lip. 
Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. Chap- 
man), received a First-class Certificate for Odontoglossum X percultum 
Cookson’s var. (O. X Rolfeze x ardentissimum), a very handsome variety, 
in which the rich purple markings obliterated most of the white ground 
colour, and an Award of Merit for O. crispum Angela, a large and heavily 
blotched variety, bearing a spike of thirteen flowers. 
Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr, 
Alexander), received a First-class Certificate for the handsome Cattleya 
Schroedere The Baron, having lavender-pink flowers, with a darker tint 
in front of the orange-coloured disc of the lip, and an Award of Merit for 
Odontoglossum X Sylvia Westonbirt var. (cirrhosum X Rolfez), a very 
handsome variety, bearing cream white flowers, heavily blotched with 
purple-brown, with some light yellow on the disc of the lip. He also sent 
Dendrobium x Magda magnificum and Cattleya x Robert de Wavrin 
(Schreederze X Schilleriana), having broad rose-coloured sepals and petals, 
and a richly coloured, quite entire lip, the C. Schilleriana character thus 
being practically lost. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. 
White), received an Award of Merit for Lzliocattleya Frederick Boyle var. 
Kerchovee, a beautiful white form with a light yellow disc to the lip, and 
some crimson markings on the side lobes. Botanical Certificates were given 
to Polystachya rhodoptera, a pretty rose-coloured African species, and to a 
plant called Megaclinium Bufo, which is not Lindley’s plant of that name, 
but M. purpureorachis, Wildem., whose history is given at page 155. He 
