310 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [OcTOBER, 1908. 
crowded in one of the annexes, owing to the large number of other exhibits. 
The awards consisted of four medals, four First-class Certificates, three 
Awards of Merit, and five Botanical Certificates. 
H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), staged a very 
beautiful group, to which a Silver-gilt Medal was given. It contained 
many good plants of Cypripedium insigne Sandere, C. Fairrieanum, and 
several good hybrids, Miltonia vexillaria Leopoldi, a fine M. X Bleuana, 
Odontoglossum grande, some good O. crispum, Leelio-cattleya Remula, 
and various others, with a selection of Brassocattleyas, fine forms of 
Cattleya xX Iris, &c. First-class Certificates were given to Odontioda 
Charlesworthii, Goodson’s var., a fine form bearing five brilliant ruby 
crimson flowers, and to Cattleya X Venus (C. X Iris X Dowiana aurea), 
a beautiful hybrid having broader segments than C. X Iris, and the colour 
orange yellow tinged with reddish bronze, while the lip is ruby crimson, 
with deep yellow veining on the lower part. An Award of Merit was given 
to Lelio-cattleya Golden Oriole, Goodson’s var. (L.-c. Charlesworthil X 
C. Dowiana), an orange yellow form, with deep bronzy red markings on 
the lip. 
* Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.1.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), received a First-class Certificate for Cypripedium X Bianca 
superbum (Leeanum Prospero x insigne Sander), a remarkably fine 
hybrid, closely resembling the second parent in form, but more compact in 
shape. The petals and lip are bright clear yellow, also the lower third of 
the dorsal sepal, except that the markings of C. insigne Sander can be 
traced as minute dark dots, while the upper two-thirds is pure white. An 
Award of Merit was given to Sophrocattleya X Saxa, Westonbirt var. (C- 
Triane X S. grandiflora rosea), a brilliant violet-purple flower of excellent 
shape, with an orange tube to the lip, and the front lobe dark purple. 
Baron Sir Henry Schréder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), 
staged a noble specimen of Oncidium incurvum, bearing eighteen 
inflorescences of its pretty white and purple flowers. 
Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O. (gr. Mr. White), received 
Botanical Certificates for Cynorchis purpurascens, Habenaria geniculata, a 
white-flowered Himalayan species, and Cirrhopetalum Andersoni, another 
Himalayan plant, having umbels of whitish flowers prettily spotted with 
light purple. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, South Woodford (gr. Mr. Davis), 
received a Botanical Certificate for a good plant of Catasetum maculatum, 
an ally of C. macrocarpum, having greenish flowers spotted with dusky 
brown, and the mouth of the lip somewhat contracted and entire. 
H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), sent 
Odontoglossum grande Pittianum, remarkable for having lost the usual 
