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leaves about half an inch long, and solitary terminal flowers, with a broad, 
purple lip and much paler sepals and petals. The plant is grown on a 
block, and is Mowering very freely, producing 28 flowers. It is curious that 
it should have remained so long almost unknown.—R.A.R. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. Z| 
HE Royal Horticultural Society announces that the pressure of recruits 
upon the War Office at the present time renders it necessary that the 
Hall of the Society be placed unreservedly at the disposal of the Govern- 
ment, for drilling) and billeting the troops. The Society has found it 
impossible to secure other suitable accommodation for th¢ fortnightly 
exhibitions, and the Council has therefore decided to abandon them for the 
present. The Committee, however, will continue to meet fortnightly at 
the specified dates and times, to consider plants, &c., submitted for 
Certificate. When it is found possible to recommence the shows notices 
will appear in the press. The next meetings are arranged for October 6th 
and 20th, and November 3rd, when the Orchid Committee will meet at 
the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
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The next meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on October 15th. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to the inspection 
of members and the public from 1 to 4 p.m. 
The fourth International Botanical Congress, which was to have been 
held in London from May 22nd to 29th, 1915, and of which particulars 
have already been given (see page 133), has been indefinitely postponed 
Owing to disorganisation caused by the War. 
Mr. G. I’Anson, formerly with Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., and after- 
wards with Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., who left this country over a year 
ago, and has since been with the Julius Roehrs Co., Rutherford, New 
Jersey, has accepted service with Mr. Thomas Young, Beechwood Heights 
Nursery, Bound Brook, N.J., an establishment where Orchids are 
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xtensively grown for cut flowers. 
Flowers of the striking hybrid Cattleya Gladys (C. Atalanta x C. 
Dowiana aurea) are sent by Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans. They are 
Most like the C. Dowiana aurea parent, having clear yellow sepals and 
Petals, and an entire, dark purple-crimson lip, with some yellow veining in 
the throat. It is possible that the C. Atalanta parent will come out better 
1 other seedlings from the same batch, A second is C. Murillo, an 
