SEPTEMBER, 1915] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 287 
ps ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. | 
WO meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during 
September, on the 14th and 28th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at 
the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
ORCHID ExuiBiTs.—At the meeting held on August 17th, Mr. J. Gurney 
Fowler announced that the Council had under consideration two new forms 
of Award, one for hybrids not sufficiently developed to warrant the Award of 
a First-class Certificate or an Award of Merit, the other for rare species 
that may not come under the class for which the Scientific Committee now 
consider Botanical Certificates. Particulars of the names of the Cards and 
Forms of Entry have not yet been decided upon. Exhibitors will be 
expected to enter on the forms the fullest information available, and the 
proposed arrangement should therefore give interesting notes on plants 
which might otherwise escape notice. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society 
will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on September 2nd and 
16th. The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to the 
inspection of members and the public from 1 to 4 p.m. 
A fine plant of Miltonia vexillaria is figured in the issue of our American 
contemporary, Horticulture, for July 11th, with an article on its culture by 
Mr. M. J. Pope. The species is considered one of the best spray Orchids 
for either commercial or private use. Mr. Pope remarks that for the last 
few years he has used nothing but clean live sphagnum moss, which is kept 
gtowing, and is replaced with fresh as soon as it shows signs of decay. 
When actively growing he recommends an application of weak liquid 
manure about once a week or ten days, which may be increased to double 
Strength as the bulbs begin to swell and the flower-spikes push forth. 
Feeding is not resorted to at any other time. Mr. Pope has charge of the 
very interesting private Orchid collection of Mrs. B. B. Tuttle, of 
Naugatuck, Conn., U.S.A. 
At the Annual Show of the North Shore Horticultural Society, Mass., 
U.S.A., held on August 6th and 7th last, a Silver Medal was awarded to 
Col. Charles Pfaff for Epidendrum prismatocarpum.—H orticulture. 
CYPRIPEDIUM PAPUANUM, Ridl.—Among the plants collected on Dr. 
Wollaston’s recent expedition to Dutch New Guinea is a Cypripedium 
which is now flowering in the collection of the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, 
