2 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (JANUARY, I917. 
occasions being the Chelsea and Holland House Shows, and the opening 
and closing meetings of the year. 
Novelties have been practically restricted to hybrids, the only important 
exception being the flowering of Denbrobium Wollastonii, Ridl. (a species 
collected during the recent Wollaston expedition to Dutch New Guinea), in 
the collection of the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, Ashton Wold, Oundle. Its 
history and characters are given at page gI of our last volume. Novelties 
among hybrids have been numerous, especially in the popular Cattleya and 
Odontoglossum groups, with a few Cymbidiums and Cypripediums, these 
for the most part being seedlings resulting from combinations between 
select forms of earlier hybrids or re-crosses with the original species, on 
which lines steady progress is being made. The crossing of albinos is also 
being followed with great success. The merits of the various seedlings will be 
better judged when they reach their full development. An attempt to 
summarise them is quite out of the question, but among the more 
interesting we may mention Odontoglossum armainvillierense memoria 
J. Gurney Fowler, the first hybrid in which the characters of the distinct 
O. crispum solum are well developed, Vuylstekeara Colmaniana, from 
Miltonia Warscewiczii x Odontioda Bradshawie, and Wilsonara insignis, 
from Oncidioda Charlesworthii X Odontoglossum illustrissimum. 
Orchidology suffered a great loss during in the year the death of Mr. J. 
Gurney Fowler, long Chairman of the R.H.S. Orchid Committee. 
Elizabeth Lady Lawrence, widow of the late Sir Trevor Lawrence, who 
shared her late husband’s love for Orchids, and who had maintained the 
major part of the collection, also passed away, and thus two celebrated 
collections have been dispersed. The Manchester Orchid Society have to 
mourn the loss of Mr. Ziba A. Ward, one of its leading members. A few 
other collections have also been dispersed for various reasons. 
Finally, there is an event that we must not overlook, namely, the 
R.H.S. Red Cross Sale, the proceeds of which were devoted to the 
alleviation of sufferings caused by the war. Among the articles presented 
for sale were a large number of Orchids and books devoted to Orchidology 
which realised a handsome sum for two deserving charities. An account 
of the Sale may be found at pp. 198, 199 of our last volume. 
It is interesting to hear of the development of Orchid culture in other 
lands. Some time ago we heard of an Orchid Society in Siam, and are 
awaiting further information, and now an old correspondent in Trinidad, 
who some time ago returned to a permanent post at Port of Spain, writes 
