June, 1918.) THE ORCHID REVIEW. 143 
roe ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. te 
WING to a three week interval, only a single meeting of the Koyal 
Horticultural Society is fixed for June, on the 18th, the following 
dates being July 2nd and 16th. The meetings are now held in the London 
Scottish Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, and the Orchid 
Committee meets at 11.45. a.m. 
The dates of the June meetings of the Manchester and North of England 
Orchid Society are the third and zoth, the following meeting being fixed for 
July 18th. The Society will then adjourn for the summer vacation, and 
will resume uo September 5th. The meetings are held at the Coal 
Exchange, Manchester. The Committee meets at noon and the exhibits 
are open to the inspection of members and the public from I to 4 p.m. 
We regret to learn that the Orchid Collection of W. P. Burkinshaw, 
Esq., Hessle, E. Yorks, is to be dispersed, owing to Mr. Burkinshaw’s age - 
and ill health, the sale by Messrs. Protheroe & Morris, taking place about 
the end of June. Mr. J. T. Barker, who has been in charge of the 
collection for the last twenty-three years, and who is well known to our 
readers as the writer of our monthly Calendar of Operations, will then be 
seeking a situation in a similar capacity. and we hope that his well-known 
abilities will meet with a suitable reward. es 
A Roll of Honour of past and present Kewites is given in the last issue 
of the Journal of the Kew Guild, and we deeply regret to see the names of 
Sergt. J. Giles and Sergt. H. W. L. Southgate among the fallen. Both 
have held the post of sub-foreman of the Orchid department. An Obituary 
notice is accompanied by excellent portraits. 
Mr. Giles was 24 pears of age when he came to Kew, in November, 1903. 
n April, 1905, he was promoted to the post of sub-foreman of the Orchid 
Fics igen where he remained for four years, afterwards becoming 
— ay Superintendent of the Municipal Gardens, Shanghai. In 1912 he 
on a acta and was engaged in landscape work when the war broke 
: » an e joined the forces. He was killed by a shell in France in July 
917, and is buried behind the lines. He leaves a widow and one son, 
— came to Kew in March, 1910, from the famous Orchid 
ment at Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, where he returned after two 
col daa in the Orchid department at Kew. Three months later he 
a to Kew as Orchid sub-foreman, leaving in December, 1913, to join 
Staff of the Gardeners’ M agazine. In October, 1914, with a younger 
