374 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [DECEMBER, 1914. 
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WO meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during 
December, on the Ist and 15th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at 
the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. The first meeting of the New Year is 
fixed for January 5th. 
(| ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on December 3rd and 17th. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection of 
members and the public from I to 4 p.m. 
The programme of the Kew Gardeners’ Mutual Improvement Society 
for the Ig14-1915 session contains two papers relating to Orchids. The 
subject for December 2ist, 1914, is ‘‘ Orchids,” by S. H. Miles, and for 
January 11th, 1915, ‘‘ Orchid Culture in Belgium,’ by P. Chollet. On 
March 22nd there is a paper on ‘‘ Mendelism,” by R. Sudell, with lantern 
illustrations. 
THE Roti or Honour.—Our readers, we are sure, will join us in offering 
our sincere condolence to Lt.-Col. Sir David Prain, F.R.S., Director of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on the death of his only son, Lieutenant T- 
Prain, of the Leicestershire Regiment, who has been killed in action. 
CHATSWORTH SEVENTY YEARS AGO.—Under this title the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle cites from its pages of seventy years ago an interesting paragraph 
in which we find a reference to Orchids, in which the Duke of Devonshire 
took a special interest. Speaking of the garden near Mr. Paxton’s residence 
it is remarked: “In the same part of the grounds will be found the 
Orchidaceous house, crowded with plants in rude health, and tastefully 
arranged with ‘trunks of trees, so as to resemble an old grove.” This 
method of culture has now been quite superseded. 
R.H.S. Screntiric CoMMITTEE.—The following references to Orchids 
exhibited at the meetings of the Committee are taken from the Official 
Report (continued from page 128) :— 
March roth: “ REVERSION” IN OponTIODA.—Mr. R. A. Rolfe showed 
a flower of the cross Odontioda Bradshawize Cookson’s var. x Odonto- 
glossum spectabile, from the collection of Clive Cookson, Esq., Wylam-on- 
Tyne. The flower closely resembled the Odontioda in shape, but the 
scarlet colour was entirely suppressed. The flower was white with a few 
