242 : THE ORCHID REVIEW. [AUGUST, 1909. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyaL® HorTICULTURAL. 
Tue first meeting after the Holland House Show was held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, West ter, on July 2oth, and 
produced a very fine display of Orchids. The awards consisted of four 
medals, three Cultural Commendations, two Awards of Merit, and three 
Botanical Certificates. 
F. Menteith Ogilvie, Esq., The Shrubbery, Oxford (gr. Mr. Balmforth), 
received a Silver Flora Medal for a very fine group, consisting chiefly of 
well-grown and flowered Odontoglossum crispum, noteworthy among them 
being O. crispum Madonna, bearing a fine spike of beautiful pure white 
flowers, with a yellow disc to the lip, and O. c. Mrs. J. W. Whiteley, 
with handsomely blotched sepals and lip. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. 
White), sent several interesting and beautiful things, including the rare 
Calanthe japonica, with bright purple flowers, Cirrhopetalum papillosum 
(Rolfe), a very interesting little Siamese species, characterised by its 
papillose-hispid lateral sepals, a very beautiful plant of Vanda X Miss 
Joaquim (teres X Hookeriana), bearing five fine spikes of flowers, and about 
a dozen and a half well-grown and flowered plants of the brilliant 
Habenaria rhodochila, which made a fine display. Cultural Commendations 
were given to Mr. White for the two latter. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), 
staged a very interesting little group, including the rare Cirrhopetalum 
Macrei, a good C. biflorum, a Javan species bearing long purplish flowers, 
Bulbophyllum cocoinum, B. laxiflorum, a graceful white-flowered species, 
Masdevallia trichete, Nephelaphyllum pulchrum, Odontoglossum X Astarte 
(Harryanum X tripudians), Leliocattleya epicasta, Gatton Park var., a very 
showy thing, and Lelia X gattonensis (L. anceps Dawsoni x cinnabrosa), 
having bright yellow sepals and petals, and the lip veined with claret-purple. 
An Award of Merit was given to oo plicata alba, a very ae 
albino of the species. 
W. Thompsen, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens), 4 eee 
Odontioda Charlesworthii, a remarkably well-grown plant, bearing two 
spikes of seven and eight fine flowers, from the leading pseudobulb. A 
Cultural Commendation was deservedly awarded. 
Eustace F. Clark, Esq., Chamonix, Teignmouth, sent a flower of 
Cypripedium X Eustaceanum (superbiens X Argus). 
De Barti.Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), sent 
Odontioda gattonensis, derived from, Odontoglossum Kegeljani and 
Cochlioda Neetzliana, Odontoglossum Astarte (Harryanum tripudiamis), 
