338 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [NovEMBER, 1909. 
representation of the wide range of variation and the dissociation of 
specific character so often seen in secondary hybrids, and frequently com- 
mented upon. A few cases of this kind illustrate the difficulty of determining 
the parentage of natural hybrid Odontoglossums by a study and comparison 
of their characters, which is unfortunately the only method available. Who, 
for example, would have pronounced these five seedlings to have originated 
from a single capsule had they appeared in some importation ? We should 
much like to see a single flower of every seedling out of the batch. Of 
course all will not flower together, but it would be quite easy to dry a single 
flower of each in blotting paper, and report on them when the series is 
complete. An analysis of the result would certainly be interesting. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyAL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING of the Royal Horticultural Society was held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on September 28th last, 
when there was a very good display of Orchids, and the meeting was 
remarkable by the presence of female flowers of Cycnoches in two different 
collections. The awards were four medals, one First-class Certificate, 
three Awards of Merit, and one Botanical Certificate. 
Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. 
Mr. Alexander), received a First-class Certificate for Lzliocattleya Pizarro 
Holford’s var. (L. Jongheana X C. Dowiana aurea), a magnificent variety, 
having very broad rose-purple sepals and petals, which are gracefully 
recurved, and a broad open copper-red lip, becoming more purple in front, 
and the throat rich brown with some obscure yellow veining. He also sent 
L.-c. Golden Fleece (L.-c. Golden Gem X C. Dowiana aurea), bearing a 
spike of seven deep yellow flowers, with bronzy red markings on the lip and 
some yellow veining in the throat, and Cypripedium x Actzus Bianca 
(Leeanum Prospero X insigne Sanderz), a magnificent yellow flower, with 
the upper part of the dorsal sepal white. 
ae Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), sent 
a choice group containing Leliocattleya Ophir rosea, Cirrhopetalum 
appendiculatum, several well-flowered plants of the rose-coloured Dendrobium 
Phalezenopsis, and its paler variety Schroederianum, also the Gatton Park 
var., in which the flowers are nearly white, with slaty blue markings on the 
lip, the rare D. bicaudatum, a Javan species, having racemes of green flowers 
with some brown markings on the lip, a light form of D. taurinum, bearing 
several spikes of whitish flowers with a rose-purple lip, and -the prettily- 
spotted Brassocattleya Mary. 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), sent 
