THE ORCHID REVIEW. tay 
NOTES. 
MEETINGS of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill Hall, 
James Street, Westminster, on April roth and 24th, when the Orchid Com- 
mittee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock, noon. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold meet- 
ings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on April 12th and 26th. TheCom- 
mittee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from one 
o’clock until three p.m. 
A beautiful raceme of Phalenopsis x Ariadne (P. Aphrodite ? x 
Stuartiana 3) is sent by Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea. The 
flowers are white with many red-brown spots and a little yellow tint on the 
lip, which is fairly intermediate in shape. P. X Mrs. J. H. Veitch (P. 
Mannii ¢ x Lueddemanniana ¢) is also sent, and is most like the seed 
parent in shape, but much larger, and lighter in colour. 
The issue of Indian Gardening, for February 22nd, contains portraits of 
Mr. A. E. P. Griessen, Assistant Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Cal- 
cutta, and Mr. A. J. B. Gisseleire, superintendent of the Agri-Horticultural 
Society’s Gardens at Alipur. The former is well known to our readers by 
his writings on Orchids, anda note about the latter will be read with interest. 
Mr. Grisseleire is a Belgian, who, after studying horticulture at home, 
went to Messrs. F. Sander and Co.’s Nursery at St. Albans, and thence to 
Kew, finally going out to India on behalf of Messrs. Sander “ in search of 
the lost Orchid, Cypripedium Fairrieanum, in the Khasia and Jaintia Hills, 
in Assam. His adventures in those wild regions, while in absolute ignor- 
ance of the languages of the country, would fill a volume. However, he 
found the natural habitat of several Orchids, among them Cypripedium 
Spicerianum, and returned to Calcutta more dead than alive, having con- 
tracted the terrible « Kala-Azar’ of Assam.” On his recovery he went to 
Alipur, in 1896. 
In reply to Mr. Godfrey’s note at page 69, a beautiful — 
showing a stem of Dendrobium Wardianum bearing thirty-nine Howers, 
IS sent by WG. Moore, Esq., of Pollockshields. 
Seedling Dendrobiums are now becoming very numerous. A beautiful 
Seedlin g derived from D. Wardianum and D. Xx Ainsworthii Bee 5 
has flowered in the collection of the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P., re 
: “Pparently a variety of D. x Lutwycheanum. It is white with : ga 
atoon-purple feathered blotch on the disc. Additional seedlings of D. 
melanodiscus and D. X Cybele have also flowered. 
