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Mr. H. J. Chapman. Sepals and petals heavily blotched with warm 
brown, and thus most like a neat edition of the latter, with a modified 
shape and colour. Exhibited R.H.S., April 7th, 1914. 
OpoNroGLossuM EDpNA (Rossii rubescens 2 X armainvillierense).—A 
very pretty hybrid, raised in the collection of R. G. Thwaites, Esq., 
Streatham. The flowers are lilac-rose, with numerous dark brown spots 
on the sepals and on the lower half of the petals, while there is a yellow 
area round the disc of the lip. Exhibited R.H.S., April 21st, 1914. 
DENDROBIUM FREDERICKII (fimbriatum oculatum ¢ X Thwaitesie).— 
Flowers deep orange-yellow, with a maroon-brown disc to the well-fringed 
lip. Raised in the collection of R. G. Thwaites, Esq., Streatham. 
Exhibited R.H.S., April 21st, 1914. 
EI ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 4 
HE next meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on May 5th, 
when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
The following meeting will be the great Spring Show to be held at the 
Royal Hospital Gardens, Chelsea, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 
May 19th, 2oth, and 21st. Class 1 is devoted to Orchids, and Silver Cups 
and Medals will be awarded, as before, at the discretion of the Council. 
The Davidson Cup will be awarded to the finest Cattleya, not a hybrid, in 
the Show. | 
For Orchid groups the front tier of the staging will be two feet high, 
and the group may then rise to an average height of seven feet from the 
Sround. Palms and light foliage used as decoration are not restricted to 
Seven feet. 
The Council desires that groups should be less crowded, and that masses 
of colour should be broken up by the use of green foliage. The Orchid 
Committee will assemble at 10.30 a.m. in the Committee Tent at the end 
of the Great Tent nearest to the Royal Hospital. The Exhibition will be 
“pen to Fellows at noon, and to the public at 2 p.m. 
The following meeting will be held at the Royal Horticultural Hall on 
Wednesday » June 3rd. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold its 
see meeting of the Session at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on May r4th, 
and the Annual Meeting will be held in the afternoon of the same date. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection of 
"embers and the public from 1 to 4 p.m. 
