ORCHID COMMITTEE, APRIL 6. 



Ixxi 



C.V.O. (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander). A finely formed white flower tinged 

 with pink and with cowslip-yellow disc to the fringed lip. 



To Dendrobium x Schneider ianum, Westonbirt variety (aureum x 

 Findlayanum) (votes, unanimous), from Lieut.-Col. G. L. Holford, CLE., 

 C.V.O. Flowers of the size and form of D. Findlayanum, white with the 

 tips of the segments rose. Disc of the lip deep orange. (Fig. 30.) 



To Sophrolaeliocattleya x ' Olive ' (S.-l. ' Psyche ' x C. x 1 Enid '), 

 (votes, unanimous), from J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Woodford (gr. Mr. J. 

 Davis). A showy dwarf hybrid with flowers deep reddish-mauve with 

 gold markings on the lip. 



Cultural Commendation. 



To Mr. H. G. Alexander, gr. to Lieut.-Col. G. L. Holford, CLE., C.V.O., 



for two magnificent specimens of Cymbidium x ebicrneo-Loivianum, the 

 one with nineteen flower- spikes bearing together ninety-one flowers ; 

 the other thirty-two spikes with one hundred and fifty fine flowers. 



Other Exhibits. 



de B. Crawshay, Esq. : Odontoglossum Lambeauianum. 



Mrs. Temple : Ly caste Skinneri. 



J. Forster Alcock, Esq. : hybrid Cygripedium. 



Mrs. Haywood : hybrid Dendrobium s. 



Messrs. Keeling : Odontoglossum nebulosum, and tubes for storing 

 Orchid pollen. 



Orchid Committee, April 6, 1909. 

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



Awards Recommended:— 



Gold Medal. 



To Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, for Dendrobiums, &c. 



Silver Flora Medal. 



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

 Odontiodas, &c. 



To Messrs. Charlesworth, for hybrids. 

 To Messrs. Sander, for Cattleyas, &c. 

 To Messrs. McBean, for Odontoglossums. 

 To Messrs. J. Veitch, for a group. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 



To Mr. Jensen, for fine forms of Cattleya Schroderae and Odonto- 

 glossum crispum. 



To Messrs. Hugh Low, for a group. 



To Monsieur Mertens, Ghent, for hybrid Odontoglossums. 



First-class Certificate. 



To Cattleya Schroderae ' The Baron ' (votes, unanimous) from Lieut.- 

 Col. G. L. Holford, CLE., C.V.O., Westonbirt (gr. Mr. Alexander). The 



