NOVEMBER, 1909] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 341 
At the meeting held on October 12th there was again a very good 
display of Orchids, and the awards consisted of five medals, one First-class 
Certificate and four Awards of Merit. 
H.S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), staged a fine 
group, to which a Silver Flora Medal was given. It contained the hand- 
some yellow Odontoglossum grande Pittianum, O. x Neptune, a bright 
yellow hybrid blotched with brown, and other good Odontoglossums, 
Miltonia X Bleuana Our Queen, a fine white form with rose markings at the 
base of the lip, some good Laliocattleyas and Masdevallias, Cypripedium 
x Maudie, C. X Padgeni, C. x Chapmanii superbum and others, with the 
handsome Anguloa eburnea, whose history was given at page 316. A First- 
class Certilicate was given to Cattleya X Hardyana The Baron (C. Dowiana 
aurea X C. Warscewiczii var. Frau Melanie Beyrodt), a very large aud 
beautiful white form, with a ruby-crimson lip, a pair of yellow blotches in the 
throat, and some yellow veining on the disc. 
Sir Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Collier), 
received Awards of Merit for Dendrobium taurinum Colmanii, a pretty 
light-coloured variety from the Philippines, having rosy petals and the lip 
margined with the same colour, and for Cirrhopetalum Fascinator, a hand- 
some species which was noted at page 155 of our last volume. He alsosent 
the yellow Spathoglottis x Colmanii aurea and a few others interesting 
things. 
Mrs. Norman C. Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. Chapman) 
received an Award of Merit for Cypripedium x Faire-Maude (Fairrieanum 
x Maudiz), a large dark form resembling C. X Juno, the dorsal sepal being 
tinted with rose and striped with purple. 
Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), received an Award of Merit for Cypripedium xX Cynthia 
(Charlesianum x Charlesworthii), a very fine hybrid, having a white dorsal 
sepal marbled with rosy lilac, and the petals greenish, tinged and spotted 
with purple. Healso sent the fine C. X Germaine Opoix Westfield var., 
C. X nitens-Leeanum var. Hannibal, C. xX Gaston Bultel var. King 
Edward VII., C. x nitens alportense, Cattleya X Dirce (Vulcan x 
Warscewiczii), having deep rose-coloured sepals and petals, and a three- 
lobed lip veined with rose-purple, and the handsome C. X Heloisiz (Forbesii 
X Mossiz Reineckeana),a pretty blush white flower marbled with rose on 
the lip. 
J. Foster Alcock, Esq., Exhims, Northchurch, sent Cypripedium xX 
Baron Schréder, New Hall Hey var., a richly-coloured form. 
R. Brooman White, Esq., Arddarroch, Garelochead, N.B., sent a beautiful 
series of Odontoglossum crispum flowers, both white and spotted, which had 
been selected from about 400 fine spikes. The plants are said to be placed 
