﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



[June, 1904. 



SOCIETIES. 



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

 Westminster, on May 3rd, when there was a very fine display of Orchids, 

 and both plants and visitors were uncomfortably crowded. 



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

 staged a choice group, which gained a Silver-gilt Flora Medal. It con- 

 tained a beautiful series of hybrid Phaius, one form of P. X Phoebe being 

 particularly handsome ; Cypripedium Lawrenceanum Hyeanum, a seedling 

 raised in the collection and very robust, Cattleya X oakwoodiensis (C. X 

 Wm. Murray X Mendelii), a very handsome hybrid, C. X Jupiter Oakwood 

 var., and some fine forms of Odontoglossum crispum, including O. c. 

 Norman, O. c. Sibyl, O. c. Chapmanii, O. c. xanthotes Cooksonas, and 

 O. c. Olive, the latter receiving an Award of Merit. It is of good shape 

 and very richly coloured, the greater part of each segment being taken up 

 with reddish claret blotches, and strongly suffused with purple behind. 



H. T. Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood), also gained 

 a Silver Flora Medal for a fine group, consisting principally of Odonto- f 

 glossums, together with two fine specimens of Oncidium phymatochilum, 

 O. leucochilum, O. concolor, Vanda Denisoniana with two racemes, 

 Cattleya intermedia Parthenia, Anguloa uniflora, the interesting 

 Bulbophyllum barbigerum, and some showy Cattleyas and Cypripediums. 

 Noteworthy among the Odontoglossums were O. X Wilckeanum Pittiae, 



A Cultural Commendation was deservedly awarded. There were also many 

 good forms of O. crispum, a richly-coloured O. maculatum, and others. 



J. Bradshaw, Esq., The Grange, Southgate (gr. Mr. Whitelegge), staged 

 an excellent group, which gained a Silver Flora Medal. It contained some 

 finely grown Lycaste Skinneri, L. X Balliae with eight flowers, the interest- 

 ing L. gigantea, Cymbidium Lowianum concolor, Oncidium Marshallianum, 

 Cattleya Lawrenceana with twelve flowers, C. intermedia alba, some good 

 C. Mendelii and C. Schrceder&e, the chaste C. S. alba bearing a four- 

 flowered spike, Laelio-cattleya Lucasiana, L.-c. X Ingramii, good forms of 

 Odontoglossum crispum, &c. 



H. S. Goodson, Esq., Fairlawn, West Hill, Putney (gr. Mr. Day), also 

 obtained a Silver Flora Medal for a fine and varied group. It contained a 

 good series of Dendrobium Wardianum, D. nobile, D. X Ainsworthii, D. 

 crassinode, D. Jamesianum, Cattleya citrina, C. Mendelii H. S. Goodson, 

 and other showy forms, Laelia harpophylla and L. purpurata, Oncidium 

 concolor, Laelio-cattleya X Lucia H. S. Goodson, Epidendrum radicans and 

 E. X O'Brienianum, good Odontoglossums, &c. 



