216 . THE ORCHID REVIEW. |SEPTEMBER, 191), 
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WO meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the | 
London Scottish Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during 
September, on the 11th and 25th. The Orchid Committee will meet at 
11.45 a.m. The following meeting of the Committee is fixed for October 
23rd, as the meeting a fortnight earlier will be a special exhibition of 
British-grown fruits, no other exhibits being eligible. 
ee ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on September 6th and 2oth. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection 
from 1 to 4 p.m. The following meeting is fixed for October 4th. 
The protests so widely raised against the suspension of the Kew Bulletin 
as a war economy have been effective. The matter has been considered by 
the Select Committee on Publications and State Reports, who have 
recommended the resumption of its publication, and the first number for 
1917 has accordingly appeared. There are two papers relating to Orchids; 
a Decade of New Orchids, and an account of the Ross Collection of Orchid 
Drawings, which has been secured for Kew. Both of them are dealt with 
on other pages of our present issue. 
| mae ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
[Orchids are named 0 uestions answered — as Life oe a hae Correspondents aré 
reque a i to oe the native country or parentage of pla. An ADDRESSED fostcard must be 
sent if a reply by post is daivel (abroad, is Postoaris pie ri wad 5% Subjects of special 
interest will be dealt with in the body of the work]. 
F.W.M.—Some confusion in the record is suspected, as the two combinations 
mentioned are too recent for a cross between them to have reached the flowering stage. 
The second oud mentioned, however, seems to represent the actual parentage. 
N.N.&.—No further additions have yet been published. 
F.M.H.—Many thanks for the offer of pollen. We only know of one hybrid from 
Promenza stapelioides, namely P. Crawshayana (0.R. ) Xili. p. 222). 
J.R.—Both the letters mentioned failed to reach us. 
E.W.T.—The Odontoglossum Pescatorei characters are very marked, possibly coming 
through O. excellens, as suggested. The other parent must have been somethin ng dark, 
and with more aeawated ti Lei but we fail to recognise it. 1s it not possible to trace 
the recor 
J.H.—The names and affinities of these Orchid fungi are, we believe, unknown, 
because they cannot be got to fruit. They can be isolated and grown separately under 
suitable treatment. 
