The Scientific Notebooks of German Orchidologist Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin

ORCHID COMMITTEE, MAY 28 xciii [113]

To Odontoglossum × eximium 'King of England' (ardentissimum × crispum) (votes, unanimous), from Monsieur Chas. Vuylsteke. Sepals and petals white, with the inner parts of the segments claret colour.

To Odontoglossum caeruleum (parentage unrecorded) (votes, unanimous). Flowers white, heavily blotched with light violet. (Fig. 38.)

Award of Merit.

To Cattleya Mossiae 'Princess of Wales' (votes, unanimous), from Major G. L. Holford, C.I.E., C.V.O. (gr. Mr. H. G. Alexander). A noble form of typical C. Mossiae with very large flowers of fine colour.

[black and white illustration] Fig. 37.—CYPRIPEDIUM TIBETICUM. (Journal of Horticulture.)

To Odontoglossum Thompsonianum superbum (Edwardii × crispum). Flowers claret-colour edged and tipped with rose. From W. Thompson, Esq.

To Brasso-Laelio-cattleya × 'Lido' (B. Digbyana × L.-C. 'Henry Greenwood') (votes, unanimous), from Monsieur Chas. Maron, Brunoy, France.

Cultural Commendation.

To Mrs. Stonyforth, Kirk Hammerton Hall, Yorkshire, for an enormous plant of Dendrobium thyrsiflorum with over fifty spikes.