120 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1917. 
fragrant flowers, the sepals and petals being straw-coloured, dotted and 
streaked with red, and the lip with some transverse red lines and a recurved, 
light yellow apex. Mr. Hamilton Smith remarks that he imported it about 
two years ago with some other Orchids. It is an interesting plant, but, 
like several other of its allies, is never likely to become common in — 
cultivation.—R.A.R. 
|e | ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. ED 
WO meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the — 
London Scottish Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during — 
May, on the 8th and 22nd, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the 
the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. The second meeting would, under normal — 
conditions, have been the Great Spring Show at Chelsea, which, together — 
with the Holland House Show, has had to be abandoned, under circum- 
stances mentioned at page 47. The succeeding meeting is fixed for 
June 5th. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold its 
last meeting of the present session at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on 
May toth, at the usual hour, followed by the Annual General Meeting at — 
2.30 p.m., when the statement of accounts will be presented, and arrange- — 
ments for the coming year will be announced. 
The plant of Cymbidium insigne album which received an Award of 
Merit from the R.H.S. on February 27th (see p. 67), has been acquired 
for the collection of G. Hamilton Smith, Esq., Leigh Woods, Bristol, as it 
is suggested to have possibilities for hybridisation purposes. 
Aa ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | Ka 
[Orchids ave named rp questions answered here we Sa as possible. Correspondents are 
requested to _ the native country or parentage of plants An ADDRESSED postcard must be 
sent if a reply by post is desired abroad, repl t ecial 
interest will be dealt with in the body of whe yesteards “ow be neh oe 
G.G..—The nt gs of Cypripedium Boltonii iveum 
and thus it must be regarded Me Narieey of C. Ven fe ey Eiiaoe Seader= and 7 ’ 
J.C.—Many ae The note is unavoidably sels 
Mrs. E.J.T.—Aérides multiflorum var. Lobbii. 
F.D.—Many thanks for the flowers duly to hand, which will be recorded next wouts 
We regret that, owing to the abnormal conditions caused b hat 
the war, our binders ha 
not yet been able to supply the cases for last year, an ‘ e volumes are delayed by 
the same cause. Unforeseen and unavoidabl issue, 
but these, we hope, are only temporary. wari agin delayed the present ! 
