NoveMBER, 1908.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 341 
At the meeting held on October 27th there was a magnificent display of 
Orchids, and the awards consisted of seven medals, one First-class Certificate, 
five Awards of Merit, and two Botanical Certificates. 
_ Lt.-Col. G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. 
Alexander), staged a magnificent group, which filled the large stage, some 
forty feet long, immediately to the left of the entrance, and to which 
the Society’s Gold Medal was awarded. The group was most effectively 
arranged, and was remarkable alike for the quality of the exhibits and their 
high culture. It contained a most brilliant series of Cattleyas, Leelio- 
cattleyas, and Cypripediums, with numerous other good things, most of 
which are mentioned in the article with which the present number com- 
mences, and therefore need not be repeated. It was admittedly the best of 
the five groups from Westonbirt which have gained Gold Medals this year, 
and was a centre of attraction throughout the afternoon. Orchid culture 
of this kind is apt to be infectious. Awards of Merit were given to Brasso- 
cattleya Madame Hye superba (C. Harrisoniana X B. Digbyana), a very fine 
rosy-lilac form, to Lelio-cattleya Ortrude superba (L. anceps X C: 
Dowiana aurea), a beautiful hybrid having the sepals and petals blush pink, 
and the lip purple crimson with some yellow lines at the base, and to L.-c. 
Lustre gigantea (C. Lueddemanniana X L.-c. callistoglossa), a large and 
handsome hybrid having the sepals and petals freckled with light rose on a 
white ground, the latter being broad, decurved and undulate, while the 
ample lip was claret-purple, becoming lighter in front, with some yellow 
veining in the throat. An interesting novelty was seen In Brassocattleya x 
Dante (C. Grossii X B. Digbyana), most like the Cattleya parent in shape, 
and having greenish sepals and petals, and a purple, somewhat recurved and 
fringed lip, with a broad yellow stripe on the isthmus. 
C. R. Ashton, Esq., Broadlands, Camden Park, Tunbridge Wells “af 
Mr. A. Young), staged a very fine group, about twenty feet long, to whic z 
Silver Flora Medal was given. It contained some fine ons Oo 
Cattleya labiata and C. Bowringiana, one of the pormiece bearing nine 
racemes, a fine C. X Mrs. Pitt, C. X Mantinii, C. x Iris, Geox fulvescens, ee 
% Dowiana aurea, Lelia prastans, Lelio-cattleya bletchleyensis, L.-c. 
eximia, Broadlands var., Dendrobium Phalznopsis, Odontoglossum me 
O. crispum, Miltonia candida, Oncidium varicosum, - ia _ 
&c. The plants showed excellent es and the specimen Cattleyas a 
i on from small pieces. 
porate acperehyi Fairlawn, Putney (gr- Mr. Day), hea a ate 
Flora Medal for a handsome group, consisting Sapte 2 = a . 
Laelio-cattleyas, the most noteworthy being Son" une ‘ii ie atti 2 Bt 
Aliciz, C. x Fabia Goodsoni, Cc. x Mantinu, anne ica eas 
Gothard, Lzlio-cattleya bletchleyensis, and cps is: 
