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Felicity, Sir Redvers Buller, and Lord Derby, Lzliocattleya luminosa, and 
Le. Lustre, Cattleya Hardyana, Brassocattleya Marie, Odontoglossum 
Uroskinneri album, and others. 
Messrs. J. & A. McBean, Cooksbridge, staged Odontoglossum crispum 
yanthotes and O. eximium xanthotes. 
Messrs. Sanders, St. Albans, staged Cattleya Lady Veitch, C. Iris, C. 
Adula vars., Cypripedium Mary Beatrice, Gaston Bultel, Germain Opoix, 
Pyrrha, Actaeus Majestic, and Doritis pulcherrima. 
Messrs. Hassall & Co., Southgate, staged Cattleya Judith (Hardyana X 
Rothschildiana), and a fine form of C. Hardyana alba. 
THE FUEL QUESTION. 
For the guidance and information of the members and others, the 
following particulars relative to the allowances of fuel for greenhouses and 
conservatories have been issued. 
None in respect of a single greenhouse attached to a dwelling-house, 
unless there are exceptional circumstances. 
Two-thirds of the average normal consumption in respect of Vineries, 
Peach-houses, and houses permanently planted. : 
Three-quarters of the average normal consumption in respect of Orchid- 
houses, Tropical houses, &c., which contain plants of exceptional value or 
variety, or which are used for scientific purposes. 
One-half of the average normal consumption for ordinary ranges Of 
greenhouses, conditional on their being used for growing of vegetables, or 
for forcing food plants for bedding out or other utilitarian purposes: 
|’ our May Notes we gave a brief account of some of the miniature 
few aia that are grown at Kew; at the other end of the scale we find a 
ma’ aia ne the family that have flowered in the collection, and first we 
¥ mention the plant of Grammatophyllum speciosum, which has been 
as oe Se of the features of the Victoria house. This gigantic oe 
ee, eae was obtained by Messrs. Sander from Penang, an was 
Was or the Chicago Exhibition in 1893, but meeting ce an accident 
oT to Kew instead. Some eight years Jater, in the potume of 
fully a an unsuccessful attempt to bloom, but the two Leta 
Maa. possibly because of the lateness of the season. a e 
igh OF 1907, however, three fine spikes were produced, some seven eet 
S with a profusion of its large yellow and brown spotted flowers, and 
pede 
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