﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



SOCIETIES. 



The last meeting of the year was held at the Drill Hall, Buckingham 

 Gate, Westminster, on December 15th, when the display of Orchids was 

 probably the finest seen at the Drill Hall during the year, the Cypripedes 

 being especially fine. No less than ten medals of different kinds were 

 awarded for groups. 



^ Baron Sir H. Schroder, The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. Ballantine), gained a 



X Leeanum Masereelianum, with twenty-four flowers ; C. X Fitcherianum, 

 with eighteen flowers : C. X Mrs. Chas. Canham, with thirty-five flowers ; 

 the handsome C X dellense (X Luthamianum X insigne San Jerianum), 

 C. insigne undulatum, with undulate margins to the petals and dorsal 

 sepal ; C. i. Sanders, with eight flowers ; Odontoglossum X Humeanum, 

 O. luteopurpureum Amesianum, O. X cuspidatum xanthoglossum, a fine 

 well-flowered plant of Lycaste X Balliae, and ( )ncidium ornithorhynchum 

 album, with seven branched spikes. The only First-class Certificate of the 

 meeting went to Odontoglossum X Vuylstekei vivicans, a very beautiful 

 hybrid, having perfectly-shaped flowers, the sepals and petals broad, and 

 heavily blotched with dark purple-red on a yellow ground, and the lip 

 paler, and bearing a large red-brown blotch in the centre, with a few smaller 

 ones on each side. An Award of Merit was given to Cypripedium X 

 Leeanum Clinkaberryanum, an exceptionally fine form. 



N. C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. H. J. 

 Chapman), staged an exceptionally fine group, to which a Silver-gilt Flora 

 Medal was deservedly awarded. It contained many fine blotched forms of 

 Odontoglossum crispum, including O. c. Peetersii, O. c. Cooksonianum, 

 O. Pescatorei Lindeni, Cypripedium X Arcturus, C. X Baron Schrteder, 

 C. x Norma, C. X Youngiano-superbiens, C. X Juno, C. X Niobe 

 Oakwood var., C. insigne Sander* with ten flowers (Cultural Commenda- 

 tion), and other plants. Awards of Merit were given to Cypripedium X 

 Leeanum Clinkaberryanum, C. insigne Sanderse Oakwood seedling, and 

 Odontoglossum crispum Maria;. The second is a very beautiful form, 

 raised in the collection from C. insigne Sandene, self-fertilised, and has 

 come practically true from seed, though the dorsal sepal is rather broader, 

 and other slight differences are observable. The Odontoglossum is a fine 

 white form, tinged with purple at the back of the segments, and prettily 

 blotched with reddish brown. 



G. F. Moore, Esq., Bourton-on-the-Water (gr. Mr. Page), staged a 

 splendid group, which gained a Silver-gilt Flora Medal. It contained a fine 

 collection of Cypripediums of the best quality, well-grown and flowered, 



