JuLy-Aucust, 1920.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 127 
eee - ORCHID NOTES AND - NEWS, Ric 
HE meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society for the current period 
are as follows: The Summer Show is to be a Great Provincial Meeting 
at Cardiff on July 6th, 7th, and 8th, an invitation having been accepted 
from the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, supported by the Cardiff and County 
Horticultural Society.’ The arrangements will be the same as at the recent 
Chelsea Show, and the Coronation Cup is offered for the best exhibit at the 
meeting. Ordinary fortnightly meetings will be held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Westminster, on July 13th, 27th, and August 24th, 
when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 11.45 a.m. There 
will be no meeting on August roth, the Hall being closed for redecoration. 
The dates of the September meetings are the 7th and atst. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings. at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on July 15th and 2oth, after 
which the Society will adjourn for the summer holidays until September 
2nd. The Orchid Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to 
inspection from I to 4 p.m. 
OrcuIps AT CHELSEA.—The following newspaper cutting is not without 
humour :— 
CAGED FLOWERS. 
Wire-guarded Orchids at the Chelsea Show. 
We have reached the stage when beautiful newcomers in the World of 
Flowers are considered precious enough to be shown in wire cages, 
padlocked and watched by keepers like the animals in the Zoo. 
Orchids worth many times their weight in gold . . . . were allowed to 
enjoy their freedom in the terraced loveliness at the Royal Horticultural] 
Show at Chelsea yesterday, but the real thrills were the imprisoned 
blooms. It seems an unpoetic thing to rob a flower of its freedom 
and invite the public to look at it in a cage resembling a rabbit- 
hutch. 
The caged flowers included new orchids, new sweet peas, and new 
carnations, and the slender form of Beautiful Ann Page, a new iris, towered 
Another prisoner was a new variety of orchid, the 
above them all. 
It is a masked orchid and 
Miltonia Memoria, Crown Princess Margaret. 
the flower is white. 
There is a peculiar little flower that gives signals of distress at the least 
puff of wind. It is not ornate, and, when still, it might be mistaken for a 
bunch of insects. But breathe on it heavily and it will wave its little hairy 
