ORCHID COMMiTTEE, DECEMBEK 5. 



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The Lady Audley Neeld: Cypripediums. 

 Gaptain Laycock : Laeliocattleya x ' Hy. Greenwood. ' 

 Messrs. Edgar: Gypripedium insigne seedling. 

 Monsieur Maurice Mertens : Odontoglossunis. 



Orchid Gommtttee, December 5, 1911. 



Mr. J. Gurney Fowler in the Ghair, and tv/enty-two members 



present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Silver Flora Medal. 



To J. Gurney Fowler, Esq., Glebelands, South Woodford (gr. Mr. 

 J. Davis), for a group of rare Gypripediums. 



To Messrs. Armstrong & Brown, Tunbridge Wells, for an extensive 

 group of hybrid Gypripediums and other orchids. 



To Messrs. Jas. Veitch, Ghelsea, for a group of Gypripediums, 

 Laeliocattleyas, and the new Odontoglossum x ' Aurora * {Rossii 

 rubescens x Lamheauianum). 



To Messrs. Gharlesworth, Hay wards Heath, for rare hybrids. 



To Messrs. McBean, Gooksbridge, for a group. 



To Messrs. Sander, St. Albans, for a group. 



To Messrs. J. Gypher, Gheltenham, for Gypripediums. 



Silver Eanksian Medal. 

 To Messrs. Stuart Low, Bush Hill Park, for a group. 

 To Messrs. W\ Baylor Hartland, Gork, for a group. 



Bronze Banksian Medal. 



To Mr. E. V. Low, Haywards Heath, for Gypripediums. 

 To Messrs. Mansell & Hatcher, Eawdon, Yorks, for a group. 



First-class Certificate. 



To Sophrocattleya x ' Lotte Miiller ' (C. x Peetersii x S.-c. 

 X ' Nydia ') (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Gharlesworth. A fine 

 hybrid of dwarf growth. Flowers bright rose and ruby-red, lip ruby- 

 crimson with gold veining at the base. 



Award of Merit. 



To Cypripedium x ' Draco, ' Westonbirt variety {iiisigne ' Hare- 

 field Hail' X ' Euryades ') (votes, unanimous), from Lieut. -Gol. Sir 

 George L. Holford, K.G.V.O. (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander). Flowers 

 resembling C insigne * Harefleld Hall,' but longer and darker. 



To Trichopilia x Gouldii {suavis x fragrans) (votes, unanimous), 

 from Messrs. Gharlesworth. Flowers intermediate between the two 

 parents, but with the characters of Trichopilia {Pilumna) fragrans 

 well displayed; white, with rose-pink spotting. 



