ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



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Orchid Committee, September 23, 1913. 



Mr. J. Gurney Fowler in the Chair, and twenty-one members 



present. 



Awards Recommended : — 



Silver Flora Medal. 



To Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, for Laelio- 

 cattleyas, Cattleyas, &c. 



To H. S. Goodson, Esq. (gr. Mr. G. E. Day), for a group. 

 To Messrs. Sander, St. Albans, for hybrids and rare species. 

 To Messrs. Charlesworth, for well-grown plants. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Streatham, for Cattleya X ' Iris,' C. x 

 ' Adula' &c. 



To Messrs. Cypher, Cheltenham, for a group. 



To Messrs. Hassall, Southgate, for Cattleya Dowiana aurea, C. 

 X Hardyana, &c. 



Award of Merit. 



To Laeliocattleya x ' Armada ' (L.-c. X luminosa X C. fulvescens) 

 (votes, 14 for, 6 against), from Lieut. -Colonel Sir Geo. L. Holford, 

 K.C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander). Sepals and petals 

 cream-white, shaded with buff-yellow, and with light-purple veining on 

 the petals. Lip broad, yellow, with broken lines of violet. 



To Cattleya X ' Cybele ' (Luddemanniana X Gaskelliana alba) 

 (votes, 18 for, 1 against), from E. H. Davidson, Esq., Twyford. Flower 

 of good shape, white, with a purple blotch on the lip. 



Cultural Commendation. 



To Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, for a fine plant 

 of the rare Oncidium corynephorum splendens, with 34 flowers. 



Other Exhibits. 



E. H. Davidson, Esq. : hybrids of Odontoglossum Rossii, and 

 Sophrocattleyas. 



Walter Cobb, Esq. : Cypripedium x villosum Rothschildianum. 

 W. R. Lee, Esq. : Cypripedium X ' Niobe ' Leeanum. 

 Mrs. Temple : Cypripedium Ashburtonae (42 flowers). 

 G. W. Bird, Esq. : Cattleya X ' Freya.' 



Messrs. Sander : Odontoma X MacNabiana (0. Edwardii x 

 M. Bleuana). 



Messrs. Mansell & Hatcher : Odontioda X (0. X ardentissimum 

 X 0. Charlesworthii) . 



R. G. Thwaites, Esq.: Laeliocattleya x 'Neleus' (C. X 'Iris' X 

 L.-c. X 'Ophir'). 



