338 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ NOVEMBER, 1903 
SOCIETIES. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING of this Society was held at the Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, 
Westminster, on October 13th, when there was a very good display of 
Orchids, though not much in the way of novelty. 
H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), staged a 
very fine group and was awarded a Silver Flora Medal. It contained good 
examples of Odontoglossum Harryanum, O. grande, O. luteopurpureum, 
‘O. crispum, Lelia prestans, Cattleya Dowiana aurea, a fine example 
of C. X Mrs. Pitt having two spikes of nine flowers, C. xX Mrs. 
J. W. Whiteley, also with nine flowers, many fine C. labiata, the 
handsome C. X Pittiana, Lelio-cattleya x Adolphus superba, Sophro- 
cattleya < eximia, Vanda Kimballiana, Oncidium ornithorhyncum, and 
its variety album, hybrids of Cypripedium Rothschildianum, Maxillaria 
picta, Nanodes Matthewsii, Dendrobium bigibbum, D. Victoria-Regina, 
Miltonias, &c. 
The Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild, Tring Park (gr. Mr. Hill), exhibited a 
superb specimen of Lzlio-cattleya x Nysa superba, with eleven large 
flowers and three buds, a Cultural Commendation being awarded. 
J. F. Alcock, Esq., Northchurch, showed a fine form of Odontoglossum 
grande. 
De B. Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks (gr. Mr. Stables), showed 
a good plant of Odontoglossum crispum growing well in a glazed earthen- 
ware table salt jar without a hole in the bottom, also a curious hybrid 
derived from of O. crispum xX Wilckeanum, in which the influence of the 
pollen parent could not be traced. It is fully described on page 326. 
F. Wellesley, Esq., Westfield, Woking (gr. Mr. Hopkins), showed a 
plant of Lelia x juvenilis superba (Perrinii x pumila) having two flowers, 
bright purple-rose in colour, with a much darker lip. 
M. E. Zollinger-Jenny, Zurich, showed a remarkable hybrid between 
Cypripedium Spicerianum and C. Victoria-Marie, most resembling the 
former in habit, but the dorsal sepal greenish, with a conspicuous white 
upper portion, and a downy purple line on the back. 
Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, gained a Silver-gilt Flora Medal for 
a very fine group, containing Cattleya xX Gauthieriana (Schroedere X 
Leopoldi), a handsome blush-white flower marked with purple, and the broad 
front lobe of the lip rosy lilac; some good C. labiata, C. x Pheidona, C. 
Gaskelliana Helen, Lelio-cattleya x Henry Greenwood, L.-c. x Rubens, 
the handsome L.-c. x Normani superba, fine L.-c. x bletchleyensis, L--c- 
x luminosa, L.-c. x Rubens, Cypripedium xX Leander, C. * Miss Louisa 
Howler, C, 5 Argo-Rothschildianum, a good C. insigne Harefield Hall 
