The Scientific Notebooks of German Orchidologist Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin

ORCHID COMMITTEE, MARCH 20. clxxiii [173]

Messrs. Heath, Cheltenham, staged a small group.

Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart. (gr. Mr. W. H. Young), showed Chysis lævis superba.

Jeremiah Colman, Esq., showed hybrid Dendrobiums.

Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. (gr. Mr. W. H. White), sent fine specimens of Dendrobium × Wiganiæ album and other hybrids.

De B. Crawshay, Esq., again showed the very fine Odontoglossum triumphans 'Lionel Crawshay,' O. t. Crawshayanum, and O. × Andersonium Youngi.

ORCHID COMMITTEE, MARCH 20, 1906.

Mr. J. GURNEY FOWLER in the Chair, and twenty-eight members present.

Awards Recommended:—

Silver-gilt Flora Medal.

To Baron Sir H. Schröder, Bart., The Dell, Egham (gr. Mr. H. Ballantine), for a fine group of Orchids, including the rare Odontoglossum Pescatorei Schröderianum and Veitchianum.

To Messrs. Charlesworth, Bradford, for a fine group, including hybrid Odontoglossums.

Silver Flora Medal.

To Messrs. Jas. Cypher, Cheltenham, for a group of Dendrobiums, Odontoglossums, &c.

Silver Banksian Medal.

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

To Messrs. Hugh Low, Enfield, for a group.

First-class Certificate.

To Odontoglossum × Lambeauianum (Rolfeae ardentissinum × crispum 'Madams Falcke') (votes, unanimous), from M. A. A. Peeters, Brussels. Flower large and with broad segements, pale rose, heavily blotched on the sepals and petals with rose-purple.

Award of Merit.

To Cypripedium villosum 'The Premier' (votes, unanimous), from Francis Wellesley, Esq., Westfield, Woking (gr. Mr. Hopkins). A massive form of thicker substance than typical villosum, and fine colour.

To Lælio-Cattleya × 'Sunray' var. superba (L. cinnabarina × C. superba) (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. Charlesworth. Flowers several on erect spikes, orange-colour, with crimson front to the labellum.

To Cypripedium × aureum Hyeanum (nitens Sallieri Hyeanum × Spicerianum) (votes, unanimous), from F. Menteith Ogilvie, Esq., The Shrubbery, Oxford (gr. Mr. Balmforth). A large greenish flower with chocolate-purple band up the dorsal sepal, and white upper half.

Cultural Commendation.

To Mr. W. H. White, Orchid-grower to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., for Phalænopsis Aphrodite, with eighty flowers and buds on a branched spike.