240 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (Ocroser, 1917, 
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HE dates of the Royal Horticultural Society’s October meetings at 
C the London Scottish Drill Hall, Westminster, are the gth and 23rd, 
but the first is a special Exhibition of Fruit, and the Orchid Committee 
will only meet on the latter date, the hour fixed being 11.45 a.m. The 
dates of the November meetings are the 6th and 2oth. 
a ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on October 4th and 18th. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection 
from 1 to 4 p.m. The date of the November meetings are the Ist and 15th. 
The Garden Magazine for June, 1916, which we have just seen, contains 
(p. 301) a figure of a pure white Cattleya, called C. Princess Patricia 
(speciosissima Empress X Trianz alba), which was offered for the Red 
Cross benefit by Mr. Clement Moore, Hackensack, New Jersey. This 
American monthly gives also (p. 302) a figure of what is called the green, 
fiddle-shaped Orchid (Coelogyne pandurata), a plant exhibited in Messrs. 
Lager & Hurrell’s group at the International Show held at New York, 
from April 5th to 12th, and which, it remarks, was a continual source of 
interest and curiosity to visitors. 
[Orchids are named and questions answered here as far as possible. Correspondents are 
requested to give the native country or arentage of plants sent. An A ne hs 
sent if a reply by post ts desired (abroad, veply postcards should be used ). Subjects of sp ve 
tnterest will be dealt with in the body of the work]. 
: Be .C.—We certainly think itis a form of Cattleya Olivia, for the influence of C. 
intérmedia is unmistakable, but we can trace no characters of C. Leopoldii. The difference 
between the two crosses is fairly parallel with that which exists between Lveliocattleva 
Schilleriana and Lec. elegans.- The other crosses mentioned would not account for 
characters, 
_  T.1.—Possibly a form of Cypripedium plumptonense, for the characters of C. Spicet: 
lanum (probably coming through C. Leeanum i 
with reflexed sides, and the undulate petals 
modified in shape in the direction of C 
out of the same batch would probably giv 
Bet 
term which expresses the quality in a character 
Ls me was originally given in a vari jecti ken to its 
etal sense, and objection was taken 
extension to another seedling that was inferior to the one cernhcated. specific 
name, 
however, covers all seedlings of the ; Jusive 
: , same pa e exclu 
right to it. 8 Parentage, and no one can claim th 
oe good typical form of Cattleya labiata, Lindl. Allelomorphic is a Mendelian 
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