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Messrs. James Cypher & Sons, Cheltenham, sent a number of good 
Cypripediums and Dendrobiums, noteworthy among them being a good D. 
atroviolaceum and some well-flowered hybrids. 
The report of the Scientific Committee of this date contains a reference 
to Albinism in Dendrobium hybrids, which is referred to in detail on 
page 135- 
At the meeting held on April zoth there was againa fine display of Orchids, 
and the awards consisted of seven medals, one First-class Certificate, five 
Awards of Merit, two Botanical Certificates, and three Cultural 
Commendations. 
Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), received Cultural Commendations for a fine plant of Odonto- 
glossum Pescatorei, bearing three large panicles with an aggregate of 153 
flowers, and for a fine specimen of Cattleya x Enid Westonbirt var., witha 
spike of seven flowers, while Awards of Merit were given to Cattleya x Robert 
de Wavrin (Schreedere x Schilleriana), having blush-white sepals and 
petals, anda deep rose-coloured lip, with some darker veins in front of the 
yellow disc, and to Leliocattleya Goldcrest (C. Schroeder x L. Cowanii), 
bearing an inflorescence of numerous clear yellow flowers, with some darker 
veining onthe lip. He also sent L.-c. Dorothy var. splendens and fulgens, 
the latter prettily tinted with salmon colour, Odontoglossum xX Phoebe 
Westonbirt var., and many other good hybrids. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. White), 
received a Cultural Commendation for three finely grown plants of 
Dendrobium crepidatum, and an Award of Merit for Odontoglossum x 
loochristiense aureo-fulvum, a fine variety, having bright yellow sepals and 
petals, barred and blotched with dark chocolate, and the lip white with a 
few brown spots in front of the yellow crest. He also sent Brassavola 
Martiana, and a selection of rare Masdevallias, including M. caudata, the 
curious M. deorsa, M. pachyantha, M. leontoglossa, varieties of M. ignea, 
M. x Fraseri, M. x Shuttryana Chamberlainii, and others. 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), 
received a First-class Certificate for Odontoglossum x Theodora (Rossii 
Tubescens X triumphans), a very handsome hybrid, most like the former in 
shape, and having the sepals closely barred and blotched with reddish claret 
colour, which largely obliterates the yellow ground colour, the petals less 
heavily marked, and showing a yellow area at the apex, and the large 
rounded lip white, tinged with lavender, and bearing a crescent-shaped red- 
brown blotch in front of the yellowcrest. He also sent O. x Vulpex (Pescatorei 
x Vuylstekei), and a dark blood-red form of Odontioda Charlesworthii. 
