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variety, a pleasing flower spotted and blotched 

 with scarlet-red, the petals having a rose line 

 of colour, the lip rose with red spotting. 



Wm. R. Lee, Esq., Plumpton Hall, 

 Heywood, showed Miltonia vexiUaria alba, a 

 large whitish flower. 



Richd. Ashworth, Esq., Newchurch, staged 

 Cypripedium bellatulum var. Richard 

 Ashworth, a curious form, in which the yellow- 

 tinted flower is heavily marked with crimson- 

 red blotches. 



Ernest Mocatta, Esq., Woburn Place, 

 exhibited Miltonia vexillaria Woburn, a large 

 rose-pink flower, and M. v. leucoglossa, a very 

 distinct and beautiful form. 



Mons. Jules Hye de Crom showed Miltonia 

 vexillaria alba, a pure white variety. 



CHELSEA NOTES. 



Once again may the great Chelsea Show 

 be recorded as a complete success. The 

 weather was perfect, the attendance of 

 visitors better than ever, and the number and 

 quality of the exhibits a record. 



In future years the R.H.S. may find it 

 advisable to prolong the duration of the 

 Show. The Orchid groups have now 

 become so elaborate and extensive that two 

 or three days are required for their prepara- 

 tion. This means that the principal exhibitors 

 must commence work some time previously, 

 generally on Saturday, in order to complete 

 their groups by judging time on Tuesday 

 morning. The opinion of several important 

 firms is to the effect that such strenuous 

 preparations are not compensated by only 

 two and a half days' admittance of the public, 

 and, moreover, should the weather be 

 unfavourable many would be kept away. 

 The Show might be opened on a Wednesday 

 and continued until Saturday night, or even 

 Tuesday. Failing this, there is good reason 

 to believe that the groups may not be so 

 large on future occasions, which would be 

 greatly regretted. 



In the case of exhibitors with large plants 

 the 7-foot staging was not wide enough to 



allow an artistic display, and an improvement 

 in this matter would be effected by allowing 

 a staging width of 9 feet. 



Almost every year brings with it some 

 novelty, but although nothing very special in 

 this way can be recorded it was nevertheless 

 a Miltonia occasion, no less than five First- 

 class Certificates being awarded to this 

 genus. Years ago it was Odontoglossums, 

 then Cochlioda hybrids, and now Miltonias. 

 The judges have been censured for awarding 

 so many, but we feel sure that the merits of 

 the plants fully justified their action. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



May 5th, 1 91 4. 

 Members of the Orchid Committee present : 

 J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. (m the chair), and 

 Messrs. Jas. O'Brien (hon. sec), Gurney 

 Wilson, W. Bolton, F. Sander, R. G. Thwaites, 

 F. M. Ogilvie, T. Armstrong, A. McBean, W. 

 Cobb, J. Charlesworth, W. H. Hatcher, J. E. 

 Shill, H. G. Alexander, G. Hunter, W. P. 

 Bound, A. Dye, E. H. Davidson, F. J. 

 Hanbury, C. J. Lucas, Stuart Low, de B. 

 Crawshay, S. W. Flory, and Sir Harry J. 

 Veitch. 



First-class Certificates. 



Odontoglossum crispum The Baroness, 

 from Baron Bruno Schroder, The Dell, 

 Englefield Green. — An extremely fine variety 

 which has previously received an Award of 

 Merit. The immense flower blotched with 

 rose-lilac. Petals very broad and fringed. 

 Lip whitish, with a red-brown blotch. 



Odontoglossum Helmuth, from Baron 

 Bruno Schroder. — A beautiful hybrid of the 

 Amethyst type. Petals very broad and richly 

 coloured with reddish-crimson. 



Awards of Merit. 



Bulbophyllum Fletcherianum, from the 

 Rev. J. C. B. Fletcher, Mundham Vicarage, 

 Chichester. — This caused considerable atten- 

 tion, the large bulbs being of dark green 



