318 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Dnill 
Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during October, on the 9th and 
23rd respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 
12 o’clock noon. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will 
be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on Friday, October 12th, and 
Thursday, October 25th. The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits 
are open to inspection from I to 3 p.m. 
Baron Sir Henry Schroder, who possesses such a fine collection of 
Orchids at The Dell, Egham, near Windsor, celebrated his Golden 
Wedding, on Wednesday, September 19th last, and received from the 
Queen the decoration of Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 
accompanied by an autograph letter from Her Majesty. The German 
Empeior telegraphed his congratulations in warmest terms, and conferred 
upon Baron Schroéder the Crown Order of the First Class; and the German 
Empress presented to the Baron and Baroness a magnificently bound 
German Bible, with autograph inscription. 
A flower of Odontoglossum x Cooksoni roseum is sent from ioe 
collection of De Barri Crawshay, Esq., Rosefield, Sevenoaks. It 1S 
another seedling from O. Hallii ¢ and O. crispum roseum ¢, and differs 
from the earlier ones is having a rosy tinge at the back of the sepals. 
The sepals are blotched and the petals spotted with dark brown on @ 
yellowish white ground. 
A magnificent form of Cattleya Dowiana is sent from the collection of 
Dr. Cranstoun, Broad Street, Ludlow, by Mr. Godfrey. The sepals and 
petals are ivory white, and the lip large and veined throughout with 
~yellow except a small area in front. It is said to be one of a dozen 
purchased from Messrs. Veitch last year. Seven others are in bud. 
A fine flower of the handsome Cypripedium x triumphans is sent from 
the collection of F. M. Burton, Esq., Highfield, Gainsborough, also a good 
C. X Crossianum, in which the petals and lip are well coloured with warm 
shining brown. 
A very fine Cypripedum x Chapmanii is sent from the collection ot 
N.C: Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, by Mr. Murray, wie 
remarks that it is a very good grower. 
We should be glad to receive a flower of any of the rarer Cypripedium 
EanDe anum hybrids. There are several which we have not see, 
of which we believe that only a few plants are yet in existence. 
