50 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ FEBRUARY, 1903. 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 
‘THE first meeting of the year was held at the Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, 
Westminster, on January 13th, when there was a very fine display of 
Orchids, though on account of the very cold weather it consisted 
largely of cut flowers. 
Captain Holford, Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. Alexander), staged a 
very beautiful group, mostly cut flowers, effectively arranged with maiden- 
hair ferns, and received a Silver Banksian Medal. It included two 
beautiful little clusters of the handsome Lzlio-cattleya x Charlesworthii, 
the flowers being of a bronzy orange shade, L.-c. X Sunray, Cymbidium 
x Winnianum, Lelia anceps Schroederiana, Lycaste Skinneri atrosan- 
guinea, and about fifty fine Cypripedes, with a prettily spotted form of 
‘Odontoglossum crispum bearing two spikes of flowers. 
W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone (gr. Mr. Stevens), 
received a First-class Certificate for Odontoglossum X waltonense, a very 
beautiful novelty, which is described and figured at page 49. 
F. Wellesley, Esq., Westfield, Woking (gr. Mr. Gilbert), sent two 
forms of the beautiful Lzlio-cattleya x Helena, Cypripedium x Hera 
punctatissimum, and a beautiful hybrid of unrecorded parentage called 
C. X Memoria Jerninghamie, having a white dorsal sepal, with emerald 
green base, a broad purple median band, and some purple marking on 
either side. An Award of Merit was given to Cypripedium x Samuel 
Gratrix var. Minnie (x Leeanum superbum xX nitens superbum), a very 
handsome hybrid (see p. 63). 
J. Colman, Esq., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Bound), staged a 
‘pretty group arranged with Asparagus Sprengeri, to which a Silver 
Banksian Medal was given. It contained fine spikes of Cymbidium X 
Winnianum, C. Tracyanum, Zygopetalum Mackayi, together with good 
examples of Calanthe x Veitchii, C. x Bryan, C. x William Murray, 
Lelia anceps, and Lelio-cattleya x Vacuna. 
M. Otto Beyrodt, Marienfelde, Berlin, sent a selection of six beautiful 
forms of Cattleya Trianz, ranging from the typical form to pure white, 
Odontoglossum x Adriane, Cypripedium insigne, and a supposed natural 
hybrid said to have been imported with C. callosum. . 
J. T. Bennett-Poé, Esq., Holmewood, Cheshunt (gr. Mr. Downes), 
showed the fine New Guinea Dendrobium spectabile. 
J. Bradshaw, Esq., The Grange, Southgate (gr. Mr. Whitelegge), 
showed Lycaste Skinneri Enchantress. 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), sent 
Lzlia anceps Theodora, a pretty blush pink form. 
