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THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



[October, i 9 c 4 . 



SOCIETIES. 



A meeting of this Society was held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent 

 Square, Westminster, on September 6th, when there was an average 

 display of Orchids for the season, and four medals were awarded, also an 

 Award of Merit and a Botanical Certificate. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., Tring Park (gr. Mr. Dye), received 

 a Silver Banksian Medal for a very interesting group, containing the rare 

 Aeranthes zygopetaloides, Restrepia striata, R. elegans, R. leopardina 

 rosea, a reddish scarlet form of Laelia flava, the remarkable Epidendrum 

 (Nanodes) Mantinii, an inflorescence of the showy Bulbophyllum Ericssoni, 

 and several Masdevallias, including M. melanoxantha, M. maculata and its 

 finer variety superba, M. peristeria, M. infracta, M. Vespertilio, and M. 

 Burbidgeana, the latter a very rare species of the Chimaera group, approach- 

 ing M. Chestertoni in colour, which received a Botanical Certificate. 



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

 received an Award of Merit for Cattleya X Iris Westonbirt var. (bicolor X 

 Dowiana aurea), a very distinct form having pale yellow sepals and petals, 

 slightly tinged and veined with pink, and the lip bright rose-purple. He 

 also showed Zygocolax X Wiganianus superbus, a handsome form of this 

 hybrid. 



J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, S. Woodford (gr. Mr. Davis), sent 

 Cypripedium X Transvaal superbum, a large and richly-coloured form, 

 together with cut examples of C. X callo-Rothschildianum, C. X I'Ansoni, 

 and C. X Veitchio-Morganiaa. 



C. L. N. Ingram, Esq., Elstead House, Godalming (gr. Mr. Bond), 

 showed Cattleya X Pittiana Marshall Oyama (granulosa X Dowiana 

 aurea), having creamy white sepals and petals tinged with rose, and a rose- 

 purple lip. 



R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell (gr. Mr. Smith), 

 showed a pretty hybrid Zygopetalum, called Z. X max-Jorisii (maxillare X 

 Jorisianum), having green sepals and petals marbled with brown, aud a 

 white lip with some purple at the base. 



Gurney Wilson, Esq., Glenthorne, Hayward's Heath, showed an 

 imported piece of Cattleya Loddigesii, having two pseudobulbs and a fine 

 inflorescence of ten flowers. 



Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Chelsea, staged a fine group of hybrids f 

 to which a Silver Flora Medal was awarded. It contained a fine series of 

 Laelio-cattleyas and allies, the more noteworthy being some fine forms of 

 L.-c. X callistoglossa and L.-c. X bletchleyensis, L.-c. X Nysa, L.-c. X 

 Parysatis, L.-c. X Bryan, L.-c. X Haroldiana, L.-c. splendens, L.-c. X 



