﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



[March, ,9c 



is a great beauty, the size and richness of the markings being remarkable. 

 Unfortunately we have no flower of O. X merificum available for com- 

 parison, but assuming the parentage to have been correctly given we think 

 that O. X merificum var. tenebrosum is a suitable name for the present 

 one, on account of its dark colour. This doubtful point may be cleared up 

 hereafter. 



SOCIETIES. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL. 



A meeting of this Society was held at the Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, 

 Westminster, on February gth, when there was a remarkably fine display 

 of Orchids, no less than seven Medals being awarded, one being a Gold 

 Medal for a remarkably fine group shown by Messrs. Sander & Son. 



N. C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood ! Wylam-on-Tyne (gr. Mr. Chapman), 

 gained a Silver Flora Medal for a handsome group containing Odonto- 

 glossum Pescatorei albescens, O. P. Prince of Orange, yellow, blotched 

 with brown ; O. X Adrianse aureum, a fine specimen of O. crispum with 

 seventeen flowers on a spike, the handsome O. c. Grace Ruby, O. c. Lowise, 

 O. c. xanthotes Oakwood variety, having the orange spots only on the lip ; 

 O. c. Brilliant, white with large red-brown blotches, Cypripedium X 

 Calypso Oakwood var., C. X Juno, C. X Wm. Lloyd superbum, Ladia 

 anceps Schroederiana, Cattleya chocoensis alba magna, &c. 



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

 was awarded a Silver Banksian Medal for an excellent group of 

 Cypripediums, including C. X Evenor, C. X Euryades, the fine C. X 

 Mooreanum, C. X Beeckmanni, C. X Sallieri aureum, the handsome C. X 

 Miss Amy Moore, C. X Mons. de Curte, Swinburne's variety, with large 

 dark blotches on the upper sepal, and others. Awards of Merit were given 

 to the three following plants : — Cypripedium X aureum virginale, a pretty 

 yellowish green flower having the upper half of the dorsal sepal white ; 

 C. X Thompsoni (villosum aureum X Calypso), having the dorsal sepal 

 rose-purple below and white above, and the petals and lip yellowish green, 

 tinged with brown, and very glossy; and C. X W. H. Page (niveum X 

 Boxallii atratum), a handsome form of C. X Graceae, having the flowers 

 white tinged and marked with dark purple, especially oil the dorsal sepal. 



Captain G. L. Holford, CLE., Westonbirt, Tetbury (gr. Mr. Alexander), 

 received an Award of Merit for Cypripedium X Qidippe (parentage 

 unrecorded), a remarkably fine hybrid approaching C. X aureum in shape, and 

 having the dorsal sepal dark rose with a green blotch at the base, and the 

 petals and lip yellow marbled with purple-brown. 



Baron Sir H. Schroder, The Dell, Staines (gr. Mr. Ballantine), showed 



