CCXViii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



September 14, 1915. 

 Mr. J. Gurney Fowler in the Chair, and eighteen members present. 

 Awards Recommended : — 



Silver Flora Medal. 



To Messrs. Stuart Low, Jarvisbrook, for a group. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 



To Messrs. Charlesworth, Haywards Heath, for rare hybrids. 



To Messrs. McBean, Cooksbridge, for Odontoglossums, Laelio- 



eattleyas, &c. 



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

 First-class Certificate. 



To Cattleya X ' Venus ' var. ' Princess Mary ' (Iris X Dowiana 

 aurea) (votes unanimous), from Messrs. Charlesworth. A large flower 

 with golden-yellow sepals and petals and broad ruby-red lip. 



Award of Merit. 



To Dendrobiutn Hooker ianum, Fowler's variety (votes unanimous), 

 from J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. A remarkable variety with fringed 

 petals and lip. Described in "Gardeners' Chronicle," Sept. 19, 1914, 

 p. 200. Flowers in drooping racemes, yellow, with dark claret blotches 

 on the lip. 



Preliminary Commendation. 



This provisional award was given to Cattleya X Ashtoniae alba 

 (O'Brieniana alba x Dusseldorfei 'Undine'), a small plant of which 

 was shown by Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells. Flower 

 of fine form, pure white. 



Other Exhibits. 



J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. : new hybrids. 

 R. G. Thwaites, Esq. : Cattleyas. 

 Messrs. Armstrong & Brown : hybrids. 

 Messrs. Flory & Black : Brassocattleyas &c. 



Orchid Committee, September 28, 1915. 

 Mr. J. Gurney Fowler in the Chair, and seventeen members present. 



Awards Recommended : — 



Silver Lindley Medal. 



To Messrs. Sander, St. Albans, for a specimen of Vanda Sanderiana 

 with six spikes bearing together forty-two flowers, and one spike 



in bud. 



