MaRCH, 1915.] THE ORCHID. REVIEW. 95 
[Eeisess| ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. [Ams] 
HREE meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at 
the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, West ter, during 
March, on the 2nd and 16th and 30th. The Orchid Committee will meet 
at the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
The Society’s Chelsea Show will be held in the Royal Hospital Gardens, 
Chelsea, on May 18th, roth, and zoth, and the Holland House Show on 
July 6th, 7th, and 8th. Plans, Schedules, and Entry Forms can be had on 
application to the Secretary, Royal Horticultural Society, Vincent Square, 
Westminster. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on March 4th and 18th, and 
April 1st. The Committee meets at noon, and exhibits are open to the 
inspection of members and the public from one to four p.m. 
Mr. J. GURNEY FowLer, head of the firm of Messrs. Price, Water- 
house & Co., Chartered Accountants, and Chairman of the Orchid 
Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, has been eppointed by the 
Government as Consulting Accountant in connection with the compensation 
payable to the Railways whose undertakings have been taken over by the 
State. 
Our American contemporary, Horticulture, in its issue for February 20th, 
figures a fine group of Cypripediums from the collection of Mrs. B. B. 
Tuttle, Naugatuck, Conn. The photograph was taken by Mr. M. J. Pope, 
Mrs. Tuttle’s able gardener. 
At a meeting of the Pittsburgh Florists’ and Gardeners’ Club, held on 
February 2nd, Cultural Certificates were given to a finely-flowered 
specimen of Ccelogyne cristata, exhibited by the Pittsburg Cut Flower Co., 
and to two finely-flowered plants of Dendrobium nobile, in 4in. pots, 
exhibited by Mr. Walter James. 
At a meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, held on 
February 6th and 7th, a Certificate of Merit was given to Mr. Weld Garden 
for a Cymbidium seedling (C. insigne x C. Wiganianum). This, it may be 
added, is a form of C. Schlegelii (O.R., xx. p. 86). 
HABENARIA ROBINSONII, Ames.—A new Philippine Habenaria has been 
described by Mr. Oakes-‘Ames (Philip. Journ. Sct., vii. p. 5), that may have 
some interest for horticulturists. It is remarked: ‘‘ This very beautiful 
