THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



The following person, having accepted the invitation of the 

 Council to become an aniHial member, was approved, and referred 

 to the society for action : Paul Lichtenstein. It was moved and 

 seconded that the secretary be authorized to cast an affirmative 

 ballot for his election. This* was done and the party declared 

 elected an annual member. 



Air. John Innes Kane, hitherto an annual member, made appli- 

 cation for life membership. He was duly elected a life member 

 of the society. 



An exhibition of orchids and roses was held in connection with 

 the meeting. This was the first of the monthly exhibitions, and 

 was a decided success. The exhibition was held in the West 

 Assembly Hall from i to 5. An interesting exhibit of orchids 

 and roses manifested the interest felt in the experiment. 



There being no further business before the meeting, the lecture 

 announced for the day, " Some Common Orchids and Roses," was 

 delivered by Mr. George V. Nash. This was illustrated w'ith 

 colored lantern slides. 



The more common forms of the flowers in cuUivation were described. 

 Among the orchids such genera as Odontoglossum, Oncidkim, Cattleya, 

 Laelia, Lycaste, Dendrobium, Miitonia, Phalaenopsis, Coelogyne and 

 others were illustrated. A series of slides, showing the essential dififer- 

 ences between the wild lady-slippers of our own woods and the green- 

 house forms, gave a ready means of distinguishing between them. Our 

 own wild plants have a leafy stem, the leaves being plaited ; while in the 

 greenhouse forms the leaves are at the bottom of the plant and are flat. 

 The tW'O kinds of greenhouse lady-slippers may be easily separated. 

 These are the two genera Paphiopedihim and Phragmipedium;. in the 

 former, a native of the East Indies and Malay region, the mouth of the 

 lip has a sharp edge; while in the other, found only in continental tropi- 

 cal America, the lip has the mouth with a broad infolded margin, some- 

 times almost completely closing it. Of especial interest among these 

 plants is Paphiopediluin Fairieannm, the "long-lost orchid." Described 

 first in 1857, it was lost until 1905, being re-discovered by Mr. G. L. Sea- 

 right in the valley of the Torso or Amuchi River, in West Bhotan. 



Slides representing the types of roses which had gone to make up our 

 common greenhouse roses of today were shown, concluding with illus- 

 trations of some of the commoner forms of today, including Richmond, 

 My Maryland, Pink and White Killarney. 



The meeting adjourned at 4:05. 



George V. Nash, 



Secretary. 



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