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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[November, 1914. 



Cypripedium Godefroya leucochilum car. Hodgk'^sonii. Awarded First-class Cerlif.cale, 

 R.H.S., July 1 0th, 1906, when exhibited by Messrs. Sander & Sons. 



Award of the White Medal of 

 Honour. — The Board of Trustees of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society has 

 awarded the George Robert White Medal of 

 Honour for the current year to Sir Harry J. 

 Veitch, in recognition of his distinguished 

 services m promoting the advancement of 

 horticulture both in Great Britain and in the 

 United States. This is the sixth award of 

 this medal, which was established in 1908 by 

 G. R. White, of Boston, to be awarded 

 annually by the above Society to the person 

 who has done the most in recent years 

 Inwards the advancement of the interest in 

 horticulture in its liroadest sense. 



A 40 FT. Flower Spike. — Mr. Geo. Day 

 sends us part of the flower spike of Oncidium 

 porrigens growing in Mr. H. S. Goodson's 

 collection, Fairlawn, Putney, and remarks that 

 the total length is over 40 ft. Mr. Kromer 

 sent the plant home along with O. macran- 

 thum, to which it bears some resemblance, but 

 the individual flowers, although extremely 

 numerous, are considerably smaller. Sepals 

 and petals brown tipped with yellow ; 

 hp cinnamon, bearing an orange coloured 

 callosity. The specific name, meaning 

 extending, was given to the plant by Reichen- 

 bach, who first described it in the year 1868. 

 A native of Colombia. 



