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reached a point of great elegance and beauty, and as many of them contain 
C. Dowiana aurea in their parentage, an opportunity will be given of 
studying the special effects of this useful species. 
Cypripediums are now so numerous that the one day allowed for the 
exhibition of these plants will only permit of a certain section being shown. 
Doubtless in future years a date during another season of the year will 
allow of other kinds being staged. These special events of 1924 will be of 
considerable interest, and add much to our knowledge of the particular 
sections of plants exhibited. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle, in its issue of October 2oth, publishes a letter 
from Mr. Jas. O’Brien, who writes, ‘‘I think the exhibition of special genera 
of Orchids in the manner indicated would be rendered doubly interesting 
if arrangements were made to show the pictures of all the members of 
each genus which have received awards at the Royal Horticultural 
Society. The pictures could be arranged together, and to avoid the 
necessity of handling them ‘to see the records on the back, a small card 
with the name and parentage of each could be attached to the front of 
the picture.” 
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. 
HE weather during the past summer has not been very favourable to 
Orchid growers in Belgium, and generally speaking, the plants are 
somewhat irregular in the matter of new growth. In places where it has 
been possible to procure an ample supply of fuel, the Cattleya section is 
well up to the average. Business in the cut-flower trade is poor, as it is 
impossible to dispatch flowers to France, and a market has to be found for 
them in Holland and Scandinavia. 
We learn that the collection of Orchids formed in Germany by the late 
Dr. Goldschmidt has been purchased by Mr. H. Rothe, of Zehlendorf,. 
Berlin. Also that Mr. Rehn, formerly Orchid grower at the Frankfurter 
Palmengarten, is now in charge of an Orchid nursery: Haus Schulenburg, 
120 Waldstrasse, Gera Reuss, Germany. Mr. Fr. Varacek is growing 
Orchids on his own account at Zahradnictoi, Plotiste, Czecho-Slovakia. 
ANGR&CUM VARIABILE.—The last issue of the Journal of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, contains the report of the Scientific Committee 
meeting, held December 12th, 1922, at which a Botanical Certificate was 
awarded to Angrecum variabile, exhibited by Mr. Baker. This species 
is a native of Nyassaland, and is curious on account of its bright-red 
staminodes. 
