144 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JUNE, 1917. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
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WO meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
London Scottish Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during 
June, on the 5th and roth, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the 
usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. The following meeting is fixed for July 3rd. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on June 7th and July 5th, 
but there will be no meeting during August. With the advent of 
September the usual fortnightly meetings will be resumed. The Committee 
meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from 1 to 4 p.m. 
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SEEDS OF CYMBIDIUM TRACYANUM.—We are indebted to Messrs. 
Charlesworth & Co., Haywards Heath, for a fine seed-pod of Cymbidium 
Tracyanum, showing an enormous number of seeds. A flower of the 
species was self-fertilised on October 26, 1915, and the capsule was ripe and 
cut on April 15, 1917, nearly eighteen months later. The capsule is six 
inches long, 63 inches in circumference, and it weighs 117 grammes 
(slightly over + pound). The number of seeds is estimated at about 
850,000, this being obtained by weighing one-fortieth of a gramme of seed, 
counting it under the microscope, and multiplying it by the total weight of 
seeds in the pod. It is probably in excess of this number, for care was 
taken to make it rather an under-estimate. The experiment was only made 
for scientific purposes, but a small quantity of the seed was sown. The 
capsule and a drawing will be preserved at Kew. It indicates what an 
enormous number of plants might be obtained from a single capsule under 
favourable circumstances. 
Aa| ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | eiste 
_ C.H.L.—Epidendrum alatum, Batem., hitherto known as a native of Guatemala and 
British Honduras. 
T.W. 
name O, crispum from having come out of an importation of the latter. 
any thanks for the letter and information, which is being suitable acknow- 
J.L.H.—Many thanks. The copies shall be dealt with as directed. 
J.J.B.—A particularly interesting flower, a note of which has had to be held over. 
BEGINNER.—The only means of keeping the temperature of the Odontoglossum house 
Will subscribers kindly note that posted copies are sent direct from Kew, and forward 
all communications respecting them to the Editor ? Ina‘tention to this involves delay aad 
unnecessary reposting of letters. 
