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Tis fortunate that no Show of Autumn-flowering Orchids had been fixed 
by the R.H.S. for the present year, for the meetings have been 
completely disorganised by the war. The announcement last month that 
until further notice all Shows had had to be abandoned, and that only the 
Committees would meet to adjudicate on plants, &c., submitted for 
Certificate, was received with disappointment, and we were naturally 
Surprised on attending the meeting on October 6th to find the Hall well 
stocked with exhibits. The fact is that after the notice of abandonment 
had been issued the authorities agreed, unless unforeseen events should 
arise, to liberate the Hall in future, and there was just time to send a hurried 
Notice to exhibitors, but the alteration was not generally known, and 
‘onsequently very few visitors put in an appearance. The attendance was 
Somewhat better at the following meeting, so that we hope matters will 
now follow a more normal course. 
At the first meeting the Orchid exhibits were rather choice than 
humerous, for three of them gained First-class Certificates and two Awards 
of Merit. All of them were hybrids, affording evidence that the march of 
Improvement goes steadily on. At the following meeting a beautiful albino 
of Laelia pumila received a First-class Certificate, suggesting further 
Mssibilities for the hybridist now that albino Cattleyas are so numerous. 
& € do not know if any seedlings of L. pumila alba are in existence, but 
ighteen years have elapsed since the albino made its appearance, and there 
ate Some interesting hybrids from the type. 
4 oo attention has been called to a paper entitled, “Common sense and 
i _ nonsense in the naming of plants,” which was read at a meeting 
nd © Horticultural Club by the late Mr. Shirley Hibberd in 1890. we 
.. €port in the Journal of Horticultwre (1890, 1. pp- 462-464), but it is 
cult to see'to what the paper leads. Orchidists, however, come in for 
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