“14 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [APRIL, 1903. 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING of the above Society was held at the Drill Hall, Buckingham 
-Gate, Westminster, on March roth, when a very fine display of Orchids 
was seen. ; 
W. A. Bilney, Esq., Fir Grange, Weybridge (gr. Mr. Whitlock), was 
awarded a Silver-gilt Flora Medal for a splendid group of Dendrobiums, 
beautifully grown and flowered, and well arranged with ferns and other 
plants, including five fine examples of D. nobile nobilius, D. n. virginale, 
D. X Ainsworthii splendidissimum, and others. 
H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), secured a 
Silver Flora Medal for a fine group, including fine examples of O. crispum, 
O. Hunnewellianum, O. X Rolfee, Cymbidium xX Lowio-eburneum, 
Miltonia Roezlii, M. R. alba, varieties of Cattleya Trianze, and Epidendrum 
X Endresio-Wallisii, and some good Dendrobiums, a Cultural Commenda- 
tion being given to a magnificent plant of D. aggregatum majus, with about 
twenty spikes of orange-yellow flowers. Bulbophyllum occultum, a 
remarkable Madagascar species, in which the flowers are almost hidden 
behind the large membranous bracts, received a Botanical Certificate. 
J- Colman, Esq., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Bound), received a 
Silver Flora Medal for a fine group, containing a magnificent specimen of 
D. nobile Gatton Park variety, bearing about 250 flowers, some varieties of 
Cattleya Trianz, Phaius grandifolius, a fine example of Lelia Jongheana, 
Spathoglottis X aureo-Veillardii, and others. 
Sir F. Wigan, Bart., Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. Young), was 
awarded a Silver Flora Medal for a very beautiful group, containing 
‘Odontoglossum Cervantesii, O. Rossii majus, O. X Wilckeanum, O. xX 
Rolfez, many fine examples of O. crispum, O. X spectabile, Cymbidium 
eburneum, C. X eburneo-Lowianum, C. grandiflorum with two spikes, 
Dendrobium Kingianum, Phaius x Cooksoni, Lycaste X Balliz, and others. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking (gr. Mr. White), gained 
a Silver Banksian Medal for a good. group, including a fine Dendrobium X 
Euterpe, D. Wardianum, raised at Burford, D. nobile Berkeleyanum, D. x 
pallens, Cattleya Trianze Osmani, and another fine form from the Downside 
collection. 
De B. Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), showed 
a good group of Odontoglossums which gained a Silver Banksian Medal. 
It contained some good varieties of O. X Adrianz, O. nevadense Crawshay- 
anum, O. triumphans rosefieldense, and some good O. crispum, including 
one obtained by crossing a good O. crispum with the finely spotted 
O. c. Crawshayanum, the result being an ordinary white crispum. 
