CXCiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Orchid Committee, June 18, 1901. 

 Mr. Harry J. Veitch in the Chair, and thirteen members present. 



Awards Recommended:— 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. B. S. Williams, Holloway, for a group of Orchids. 



Award of Merit. 



To Sophro-Cattleya x ' Geo. Hardy, Tyntesfield variety ' {Sophronitis 

 grandiflora x Cattleya Aclandice) (votes, 8 for, 3 against), from Fred. 

 Hardy, Esq., Tyntesfield, Ashton-on-Mersey (gr. Mr. Stafford). The 

 original reddish-scarlet form was shown May 10, 1898, and accorded an 

 award of merit. From the same batch of seedlings, the Tyntesfield 

 variety, with larger flowers, with sepals and petals blush-white, tinged 

 and sparsely blotched with rose purple, and whitish labellum, veined and 

 tinged with dark rose, was flowered. 



Other Exhibits. 



J. Gurney Fowler. Esq. (gr. Mr. J. Davis), showed a fine plant of 

 Cypripedium callostim Sandcrce, with four flowers. 



J Bradshaw, Esq., Southgate (gr. Mr. Whitelegge), sent Lcelio- Cattleya 

 xBoehlingiana (C. Gaskelliana x L. purpurata). 



Keginald Young, Esq., Liverpool (gr. Mr. Poyntz), sent Cypripedium x 

 Kerchoveanwn {Curtisii x barbatum) ; C x ' Ganymede ' (C tonsum ? x 

 C. oenanthum superbum^), and C. x Carnusianum. 



Mr. A. J. Keeling, Cottingley, Bingley, showed Lcelia x * Diana ' 

 (L. Day ana xL. purpurata), Masdevallia x falcata, Lcelia tenebrosa, and 

 Miltonia flavescens. 



C. J. Lucas, Esq., Horsham (gr. Mr. Duncan), sent, as Odoiitoglossum 

 Litcasianum, a variety of 0. Hallii, suggested to be a natural hybrid 

 between that species and 0. cristatellum. 



A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, Hackbridge (gr. Mr. Humphreys), sent 

 Pholidota obovata. 



Fred Hardy, Esq., showed the dark-coloured Cypripedimn Laiorence- 

 anum nigrum, and four C. x Goiveriamtm ; also the original form of 

 Sophro-Cattleya x ' Geo. Hardy.' 



Orchid Committee, July 2, 1901. 

 Mr. Harry J. Veitch in the Chair, and fifteen members present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Aioard of Merit. 



To Schomburgkia Thomsoniana (votes, unanimous), from Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart., Burford (gr. Mr. W. H. White). A fine species, with the 

 habit of S. tibicinis, but smaller. Flowers yellow, with violet-purple 

 front lobe to the lip. 



