a0 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (JANUARY, 1908. 
SOCIETIES. 
RoyaL HORTICULTURAL. 
A MEETING was held at the Royal Horticultutal Hall, Vincent Square, 
Westminster, on November 26th last, when there was a very fine display of 
autumn-flowering Orchids, and the awards consisted of eight Medals, one 
First-class Certificate, five Awards of Merit, and one Botanical Certificate. 
Francis Wellesley, Esq., Westfield, Woking (gr. Mr. Hopkins), staged a | 
choice little group, which received a Silver Flora Medal. Among the more 
noteworthy plants were the very beautiful Cypripedium x Thalia Mrs. 
Francis Wellesley, C. x T. giganteum, C. x Gaston Bultel, C. x Arthur- 
ianum, and other good things. 
Baron Sir H. Schréder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), received 
a First-class Certificate for Odontoglossum X John Clarke, a noble hybrid 
of unrecorded parentage, but apparently a secondary hybrid from O. X 
Rolfez. It bore a very fine spike of eighteen flowers (a few still unexpanded), 
of very fine shape, over four inches across, and very heavily blotched with 
reddish-purple on a light ground.: 
N. C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. Chapman), 
staged a choice little group containing a fine specimen of Cypripedium 
insigne Sanderz, a smaller one of the Oakwood seedling derived from it, C. 
x Acteus aureum, and the two following, each of which gained an Award 
of Merit. C. xX niveo-callosum Cookson’s var. is a pretty waxy white flower, 
of good shape, tinged and dotted with light purple. C. X Sanacderz 
superbum is a beautiful yellow form, rather darker than C. insigne Sandere, 
and with more white on the dorsal sepal. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, S. Woodford (gr. Mr. Davis), 
received an Award of Merit for Cypripedium Xx Ernest Read, a very fine 
hybrid of unrecorded parentage, and the ground colour white, slightly tinged 
with rose, and somewhat veined with green. 
Major G. L. Holford, C.V.O., C.1.E., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander), 
received an Award of Merit for Lelio-cattleya Gertrude (L. anceps x C. 
Dowiana aurea), a handsome thing, having blush-rose sepals and petals, and 
a broad crimson lip with some yellow lines at the base. He also sent the 
brilliant Leelio-cattleya Barbarossa (L.-c. callistoglossa xX C. Trianz), and 
Cypripedium X Cynthia, having a large white dorsal sepal blotched with 
rose, and the petals and lip yellow tinged with brown. 
- W.M. Appleton, Esq., Weston-super-Mare, received a Silver Banksian 
Medal for a pretty little group, including some good forms of Dendrobium 
Phalznopsis, D. superbiens, Lelio-cattleya Decia, L 
Mastersianum X insigne, 
and others. 
.-c. Clive, Cypripedium 
with some pretty crosses of C. tonsum, C. exul, 
