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May-JUNE, I919.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 99 
Esery ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. |Feieea| . 
HE Meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society are rather displaced by 
the holidays and the big shows. The Spring Show at Chelsea from 
May 2oth to 22nd, falls between the ordinary meetings at the London 
Scottish Drill Hall on the 13th and 27th, after which there is a three weeks 
interval to June 17th, when thenext ordinary meeting will be held. A week 
later comes a Floral Fete and Exhibition in the Chelsea Gardens, in aid 
of the R.H.S. War Relief Fund, the dates being June 24th and 25th, and 
the general arrangements similar to those of the Chelsea Show of a month 
earlier. Offers of cut flowers and plants to be sold for the Fund will be 
gratefully received. A week latter, on July Ist, an ordinary meeting will be 
held at the London Scottish Drill Hall, after which the meetings will 
resume their usual fortnightly character, the succeeding dates being July 
15th and 29th. The hour of meeting of the Orchid Committee, except at 
the Chelsea Fete, is 11.45 a.m. 
The Manchester & North of England Orchid Society has issued its 
programme for the 1919-1920 session, the dates of meetings being at 
follows :—June 5 and 19, July 3 and 17 (no meetings during August), 
September 4 and 18, October 2 and 16, November 6 and 20, December 4 
and 18, January (1920) 8 and 22, February 5 and 19, March 4 and 18, 
April 1 and 15, the final meeting being fixed for May 6, when the Annual 
Meeting will also be held. The Committee meets atnoon, and the exhibits 
are open to inspection from I to 4 p.m- 
A set of four photographs has been sent by M. Th. Pauwels, showing 
details of the destruction of his Orchid Nursery at Meirelbeke on the night 
of November, 8th-gth last, as described at pp. 22, 23- They represent, 
respectively, a Cymbidium house, 25 metres long by °7 wide, an Odonto- 
glossum seedling house, and two hybrid Cattleya houses, one of them 30 
metres kong by 7 wide. The latter is a picture of desolation, part of the 
toof and stage wrecked, the glass fallen in, the front slabs broken and dis- 
placed, and the plants lying about in a 
by the concussion. Two others show much the same condition of things, 
and it was impossible to save the plants after the bombardment was over, 
as they had been subjected to 3 to 7 degrees Centigrade of frost (equalling 
6 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit). Fortunately, however, it was possible to 
save most of the Cymbidiums. One of the views will be given in our next 
issue, 
From an announcement in our advertisement pages, It will be seen that 
