ORCHID COMMITTEE. 



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Messrs. Swan & Price : Cypripediums. 



Messrs. McBean : hybrids. 



Mr. H. Dixon : Odontoglossums. 



Orchid Committee, February 24, 1914. 

 Sir Harry J. Veitch in the Chair, and twenty-five members present. 

 Awards Recommended :— 

 Silver-gilt Flora Medal. 

 To Lieut.-Col. Sir Geo. L. Holford, K.C.V.O., Westonbirt, 

 Tetbury, for a group of varieties of Cattleya Trianae and other Orchids. 



Lindley Medal. 



To Mr. H. G. Alexander, Orchid-grower to Lieut.-Col. Sir Geo. 

 L. Holford, for three grandly cultivated specimens, viz. : — 

 Cattleya Trianae ' Hydra,' 96 flowers. 

 Cymhidium Lowio-ehurneum, 26 spikes, loi flowers, 

 Cymbidium Lowianum, 15 spikes, 278 flowers. 



Silver Flora Medal. 

 To Messrs. Sander, for hybrid Odontoglossums, Cattleyas, &c. 

 To Messrs. Stuart Low, for a group. 



Silver Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, for hybrids. 

 To Messrs. Charlesworth, for a group. 

 To Messrs. J. Cypher, for Cypripediums. 



Bronze Banksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. Flory & Black, Slough, for hybrids. 

 To Messrs. Hassall, Southgate, for a group. 

 To Messrs. Swan & Price, St. Albans, for Cypripediums, 



First-class Certificate. 

 To Odontoglossum X ' Colossus ' (parentage unrecorded) (votes 

 unanimous), from Baron Bruno Schroder, The Dell, Englefield Green 

 (gr. Mr. J. E. Shill). The largest of its class ; flowers white, with the 

 greater part of the segments heavily blotched with dark purple. 

 (Fig. 39.) 



To Cymbidium X Alexanderi, Hamilton-Smith's variety (insigne x 

 eburneo-Lowianum) (votes unanimous), from G. Hamilton-Smith, Esq., 

 Finchley. Flowers white, with an irregular crimson band at the 

 margin of the Hp. (Fig. 40.) 



Award of Merit. 



To Cypripedium X ' Mogul ' (* Mrs. Wm. Mostyn ' X chrysotoxum) 

 (votes unanimous), from Lieut.-Col. Sir Geo. L. Holford, K.C.V.O. 

 (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander). Flowers yellow, tinged with purple, the 

 ivory-white dorsal sepal having a purple band up the middle. 



