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~ The Orchid Review ~} 
CZ. VoL. XXVII. JuLy-Aucust, 1919. No. 319-320. 3 
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HE Royal Horticultural Hall at Vincent Square is not yet available for 
the Society’s meetings, but the fact that it was again possible to hold 
a Spring Show at Chelsea was a welcome return to old times, though there 
were many things to remind one that conditions are still far from normal. 
The plants, however, made a brave show, and the fact that four gold 
medals were included in a long list of awards testifies to the excellence of 
the display. The attendance was also good, though Continental visitors 
were very few in number, which is not surprising considering the limited 
facilities for travelling at the present time. 
iF OUR NOTE BOOK. 
The Summer Show was a reminder of the’strenuous times through which 
we have so recently passed, for it was a Special Exhibition of the War 
Horticultural Relief Fund, organised by the Society for sufferers in the 
countries of our Allies by the unexampled_barbarities of the War. The 
Society’s Committees did not meet, consequently there were no ordinary 
awards, but a number of Gold Medals were given by the Council, five of 
which went to Orchids. The weather was rather cold, and a gale on the 
eve of the show caused a good deal of anxiety and some damage, though 
the Orchids fortunately escaped. A report appears elsewhere, and on 
page 109 an illustration is given of part of the destroyed Nursery of M. Th. 
Pauwels at Meirelbeke, which was one of the tragedies of the War. 
A correspondent, who alludes to the enormous 
made in hybridising the Odontoglossum group, 
characters by which the wild Odontoglossum crispum can be distinguished 
from the multitude of blotched gar 
We believe not. The difficulty is to ascertain 
O. crispum when uncomplicated by crossing. Blotched forms have always 
appeared in importations of O. crispum, and some of these were recognised 
as hybrids from the outset. ° But between these and typical O. crispum 
came a multitude of intermediate forms, grading. away from the type in a 
way that defied any attempt to separate them from it by any definite 
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progress that is being 
asks whether there are 
