JUNE, 1903.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 181 
THE TEMPLE SHOW. 
‘THE sixteenth Great Annual Temple Show was held (by kind permission 
of the Treasurer and Benchers) in the Inner Temple Gardens, on Tuesday, 
‘Wednesday, and Thursday, Mav 26th, 27th, and 28th, in glorious weather, 
and floriculturally was a great success, for the exhibits were excellent in 
every department, and the Orchids have probably never been equalled at 
the Temple. The quality was excellent, and there was a fair sprinkling 
of novelties, mostly among the hybrids. The judges for Orchids were 
Messrs. H. J. Chapman, James Douglas, J. Gurney Fowler, and 
H. Little; and Mr. R. A. Rolfe was invited co assist the Orchid Com- 
‘mittee in adjudicating on the plants submitted for Certificates, which 
‘were gO in number. The awards included six First-class Certificates, 
thirteen Awards of Merit, one Cultural Commendation, and one Botanical 
‘Certificate, but several Odontoglossums were disqualified for disbudding. 
Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart. (gr. Mr. Young), staged a superb group, 
ich and varied in composition, which gained the award of a Gold Medal. 
It contained a fine series of Odontoglossums, conspicuous among them 
ibeing O. citrosmum album, good forms of O. crispum, O. X Andersonianum, 
. Hallii, O. gloriosum, O. X loochristiense, O. cordatum, O. hastilabium, 
O. X ardentissimum Wigan’s variety, O. tripudians, O. X Wilckeanum. 
‘There were also fine examples of Miltonia vexillariaand M. x Bleuana, a 
noble specimen of Cymbidium Lowianum with eleven spikes (Cultural 
‘Commendation), C. tigrinum, a fine pan of Dendrobium Bensone, D. 
infundibulum, I). Parishii, Oncidiums phymatochilum and Gardneri, a fine 
example of Zygonisia X Rolfeana, Masdevallia Carderi, M. x Pourbaixii, 
and various brilliant flowered forms, Saccolabium curvifolium, Aérides 
Fieldingii, Maxillaria Sanderiana, Phalaenopsis Lueddemanniana, Leptotes 
‘bicolor, a fine pan of the rare Ccelogyne Schilleriana, Trichopilia tortilis, 
‘the rich purple Phaius X Wiganianus (Owenianus X Humblotii), Nanodes 
Medusez, Sobralia macrantha alba, Cattleya Forbesii, C. Skinneri, and 
‘various showy Cattleyas, Brassavola Digbyana, Lelia purpurata, Cypri- 
pedium bellatulum and its variety album, C. Druryi, with various other 
‘showy things. A First-class Certificate was given to Cattleya x Whitei 
magnifica, and an Award ot Merit to Lalio-cattleya X Canhamiana Rex. |. 
Leopold de Rothschild, Esq. (gr. Mr. Reynolds), received a Silver-gilt 
‘Lindley Medal fora very fine group of Vanda teres, arranged in the form of 
a bower, backed with palms and bamboos, and carpeted with maiden-hair 
ferns; a most effective exhibit. 
J. Coleman, Esq., Gatton Park, Reigate (gr. Mr. Bound), also received a 
‘Silver-gilt Lindley Medal for a very beautiful group, in which Miltonia 
vexillaria and brilliant flowered Masdevallias were very effective. It also 
