168 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JuLy, 1917. 
3 
HREE meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
London Scottish Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, West ter, during 
July, on the 3rd, 17th, and 31st. The Orchid Committee now meets at 
11.45 a.m. 
ee ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold a 
meeting at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on July 5th, after which it 
will adjourn for the summer holidays until September 6th, when the 
meetings will be resumed. The Committee meets at noon, and the 
exhibits are open to inspection from I to 4 p.m. 
We learn from the Gardeners’ Chronicle that during a severe thunder- 
storm which took place near Liverpool on Sunday, June 17th, a lot of glass 
was broken by hail in the house of the Liverpool Orchid Company, Gate- 
acre, while in two other establishments between 400 and 600 squares of 
glass were broken. The storm lasted from 15 to 20 minutes, during which 
time extensive damage was done to trees, plants, and greenhouses. 
On the preceding and following days there were violent storms in the 
Thames Valley, accompanied by hail and a deluge of rain, and on the 
second occasion much damage was done to growing crops by hailstones, 
though we have not heard that glass was broken. 
It is with much regret that we hear of the death, by drowning, on May 
4th, of Mr. Lionel Crawshay, son of Mr. de Barri Crawshay, Rosefield, 
Sevenoaks. Mr. Crawshay was proceeding to Egypt with a detachment, to 
take up a commission, when the vessel was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. 
His name is commemorated in Odontoglossum  triumphans Lionel 
Crawshay, one of the finest forms of the species that has yet appeared. 
Ray ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. [R@@A)_ 
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