208 THE ORCHID REVIEW. { AUGUST, 1916. 
ees ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS SS 
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HE fortnightly arrangement of the meetings of the Royal Horticultural 
Society involves three meetings during August, these being fixed for 
the Ist, 15th, and 29th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual 
hour, 12 o’clock noon. The afternoon lecture on the second date is by Mr- 
Gurney Wilson, on Orchids. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on August 3rd and 17th. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection 
from 1 to 4 p.m. 
Figures of the Bee and Wasp Orchises are given in a recent issue of the 
Garden (p. 342) by Mr. H. Stuart Thompson. The former is the well- 
known Ophrys apifera, and the latter a curious variety of it, called var. 
Trollii, which has been known in the Bristol district since 1787, when 
Michael Collinson had three roots sent from Clifton. The two figured 
were found on Durdham Down on June 25th, it is said within sight of the 
people that Sunday evening. A fine example of Orchis maculata alba on 
the rockery at Friar Park is given at page 354 of the succeeding issue, and 
is reproduced at p. 200. 
ODONTOGLOSSUM EXIMIUM Druip’s LoncE var. is a large and handsome 
variety, of which a flower has been sent from the collection of A. P. 
Cunliffe, Esq., Druid’s Lodge, through Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans. 
The flower is copiously blotched with violet-purple on the lower two-thirds 
of the segments, which are prettily undulate. 
G¢@s%| ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
[Orchids are named and questions answered here as far as possible. Correspondents are 
requested to give the native country or parentage of plants sent. An ADDRESSED postcard must be 
sent sf a reply by post is desired (abroad, reply postcards should be used). Subjects of special 
interest will be dealt with in the body of the work}. 
_E.M.—The point about these Sobralias has never been cleared up. 5S. Veitchii is an 
artificial hybrid between S. macrantha and S. xantholeuca, and the wild ones that are 
indistinguishable indicate that somewhere the two grow together. Information on this 
point is desired. 
J.R.D.—Epidendrum pheeniceum, Lindl. See p. 182, 
alas Stanhopea Wardii, Lodd. The hypochil of the lip is much shorter than in 
. oculata. 
eginner.— Keep the temperature down by shading and damping the paths ard 
beneath the stagings as much as possible. It is also a good plan to damp the surroundings 
of the house outside in spells of very hot weather. too iree use of the ventilators wou:d 
result in the air becoming over dry, which is particularly injurious. The flower is 
Odontoglossum Adrianz, a natural hybrid between O. crispum and O. Hunnewellianum. 
