Ccl PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Orchid Committee, September 26, 1911. 

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



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver Banksian Medal. 



To Samuel Larkin, Esq., Haslemere (gr. Mr. Hales), for Laeho- 

 cattleyas, Phalaenopses, &c. 



To Messrs. Charlesworth, for rare hybrids. 



To Messrs. Sander, for a group. 



To Messrs. Stuart Low, for a group. 



To Messrs. Hassall, for hybrid Cattleyas, &c. 



First-class Certificate. 



To Odo7itoglossum x Harwoodii, The Shrubbery variety [macula- 

 turn auriferum x Wiganianum) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. 

 'Charlesworth. Flowers bright yellow with blackish purple markings, 

 and differing from the variety shown January 31, 1911, in having an 

 elongated blackish blotch on each side of the labellum and one on the 

 front lobe. 



Award of Merit. 



To Cattleya x ' Freya ' var. * Mrs. Frederick Sassoon ' (Dowiana 

 aurea x Mantinii nigricans) (votes, unanimous), from Francis Welles- 

 ley, Esq., Westfield, Woking (gr. Mr. Hopkins). Flowers resembling 

 C. Mantinii, but much larger. Sepals and petals rosy-mauve, lip ruby- 

 crimson, with thin gold lines from the base. (Fig. 155.) 



To Epidendruni Laucheanum (votes, unanimous), fromi Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., V.M.H. (gr. Mr. W. H. White). A 

 remarkably slender species with a drooping raceme of small brownish 

 flowers with yellow labellums. 



Cultural Commendation. 



To Mr. Jas. Hudson, V.M.H. , gr. to Leopold de Eothschild, Esq., 

 for a fine basket of the bright scarlet Hahenaria militaris. 



To Mr. W. H. White, orchid-grower to Sir Trevor Lawrence, 

 Bart., K.C.V.O., for a fine plant of Zygopetalum maxillare. 



Other Exhibits. 



Leopold de Eothschild, Esq. : Cattleya x ' Iris,' ten flowers. 

 Francis Wellesley, Esq. : rare orchids. 

 E. G. Thwaites, Esq. : hybrids. 



Baron Bruno Schroder: Odontoglossum x * Memoria Baron 

 Schroder. ' 



H. S. Goodson, Esq. : a group. 



Mr. E. V. Low : a group. 



Messrs. Jas. Veitch: hybrid orchids, &c. 



W. Waters Butler, Esq. : Cattleya x Hardyana var. Massaiana. 



