FrBruary, 1914.| THE ORCHID REVIEW. ~- 63 
From the Book of Arrangements for the year we learn that the Society’s 
Spring Show will be held in the Gardens of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 
from May 19th to 21st, and the Summer Show at Holland House, 
Kensington, from June 3oth to July 2nd. 
The following arrangements for staging the Orchids have been made: 
The front tier of the staging will be two feet high ; the group may thence 
rise to an average height of seven feet from the ground. Seven feet is fixed 
on as being the average of the extreme permissible limit of the tops of the 
flowers (not of the pots), as above that height few people can see them. 
Palms and light foliage plants used as decoration are not subject to this 
limit of seven feet. 
Orchids submitted for Certificate must be entered by post before 11 a.m. 
on the Saturday preceding the meeting. All such plants MUST BE NAMED, 
and must be placed on the table reserved for Certificate plants, and not 
mixed up in any group. Un-named plants are not eligible for Certificate, 
and erroneous names will be rectified as far as possible. It is understood 
that if a plant obtains any award a painting may be made by the Society’s 
artist. 
Awards will not be given to any Orchids of which the natural size and 
character of the flowers have, in the opinion of the Committee, been in any 
way changed or ‘“‘ improved ” through the removal of a bud or buds, or part 
of the spike. 
A Register of Orchids is kept. Orchid raisers and growers are requested 
to bring their plants when in flower for the first time (even though they may 
not then be sufficiently developed to enter for Award), and to register the 
name and parentage, together with the owner and raiser’s names, on a form 
to be obtained from the Offices. This form should be sent with the plant, 
and will be placed before the Committee, who, after being satisfied that the 
name is in order, will enter it on the Register, and once so recorded that 
name must be recognised for all crosses of similar parentage subsequently 
Shown, unless valid reasons be given. 
The only change in the Orchid Committee is the addition of Mr. Eric 
en: Davidson, Orchid Dene, Twyford, Berks, in place of Mr. John S. Moss, 
deceased. Otherwise the names are as given at pp. 78, 79 of our last 
volume. 
Mr. E. H. Wilson, the well-known plant collector, is about to take a 
year’s sojourn in Japan, and we learn from Horticulture that he was 
entertained to a farewell dinner on January Ist last by the Horticultural 
Club of Boston, of which he is honorary secretary. He was also presented 
with a beautiful gold watch and chain, with jewelled brooches for Mrs, and 
Miss Wilson. Good wishes were expressed for a safe voyage, a successful 
