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NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during November, on the 6th and 
20th, when the Orchid Committee wil] meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock 
noon. 
The subject of the Lecture, at 3 o'clock on the former date, is 
Insecticides, Spraying for Fungi, &c.,” by Mr. R. Newstead, F.E.S., and 
should prove interesting to Orchidists as well as others. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will 
be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on November 8th and 22nd. 
The Orchid Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to in- 
- Spection from 1 to 3 o’clock p-m. 
A flower of the brilliant little Paphiopedilum x Baron Schréder is sent 
by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea. It isa seedling from P. x 
cenanthum superbum ¢ and P. Fairrieanum 3, and combines the good 
qualities of both parents. The dorsal sepal is heavily spotted with reddish 
purple, and the undulate petals veined and suffused with the same colour, 
and prettily spotted on the lower half. Its history and ancestry were given 
at page 39. 
Two very charming hybrids of Sophronitis grandiflora are sent from the 
collection of Sir Trevor Lawence, Bart., Burford, Dorking, by Mr. White. 
Sophrocattleya x eximia is descended from Cattleya Bowringiana 9 and 
Sophronitis grandiflora 3, and has a flower most like the latter in general 
shape, 4 inches in diameter across the petals, and of the most brilliant 
magenta crimson, with some darker veins on the lip. Sophrocattleya X 
Calypso was raised from Sophronitis grandiflora ¢ and Cattleya Loddigesii 
3, and most resembles the Cattleya parent in the shape and colour of the 
flower. Both are very dwarf in habit, and are most elegant little plants. 
A flower of Lelia pumila delicatissima is also sent from the same 
collection. It is blush white, with a light purple area on either side of the 
lip, connected by a similar curved line in front of the crest. It isa very 
charming variety. 
A twin-flowered scape of a very pretty seedling, evidently derived from 
P aphiopedilum Charlesworthii and P. x Harrisianum, is sent from the 
Collection of H. J. Ross, Esq., of Florence, Italy. The scape much 
resembles the latter in character, also the markings of the leaf, the shape of 
the lip and staminode, and the prettily veined upper sepal. But the 
horizontal petals, and the colour of the staminode, and indeed of the flower 
