CXC PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



Temple Show, May 22, 1901. 

 Mr. Hakry J. Veitch in the Chair, and twenty-two members present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



First-class Certificate. 



To LcTlio-Cattleya x ' Edgar Wigan ' (L.-C. x * Aphrodite ' ? L. 

 Dighyana <?) (votes, unanimous), from Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart., 

 Clare Lawn, East Sheen (gr. Mr. W. H. Young). A very fine hybrid. 



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Fig. 262. — Odontoglossum crispum var. 'Annie.' {Journal of Horticulture.) 



closely resembling L.-C. x Dighyano-Mendelii, but with a purple base 

 and rose-purple tinted front to the lip. 



To Odontoglossum crispum ' Annie ' (votes, unanimous), from H. T. 

 Pitt, Esq., Rosslyn, Stamford Hill (gr. Mr. Thurgood). Flower large, 

 white tinted with purple, and evenly spotted with claret-purple. A.M. 

 May 26, 1897. (Fig. 262.) 



To Odontoglossum x Wilckeanum ' Golden Queen ' (votes, unani- 

 mous), from W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, Stone (gr. Mr. W. 

 Stevens). Flower broad in all its parts, pale yellow, heavily blotched 

 with brown. It received an A.M. November 10, 1896, as 0. crispum 

 ' Golden Queen,' but the development of the crest is considered to prove 

 hybridity. (Fig. 263.) 



