OCTOBER, 1915-] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 319 
| ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. ES 
WO meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during 
October, on the 12th and 26th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at 
the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on October 7th and atst. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to the inspection 
of members and the public from 1 to4p.m. The succeeding meeting is 
fixed for November 4th. 
The shortage of labour owing to the war is being felt‘in many Orchid 
Establishments, and in some cases is imposing considerable difficulties, as 
we know by personal correspondence. Owing to this cause Messrs. 
Thibault, of Nantes, are offering a large lot of Orchids for sale, particulars 
of which will be found in our advertisement pages. 
Mr. Douglas A. Sinclair, who some three years ago went to Borneo to 
collect Orchids for the Hon. N. C. Rothschild and Sir Marcus Samuel, and 
who later emigrated and ultimately joined the ranks of a colonial battalion 
at the Dardanelles, is reported in the Gardeners’ Chronicle to have been 
wounded, but it is hoped not severely. He is a nephew of the late Mr. 
Sinclair, who at one time held a responsible position with Messrs. James 
Veitch & Sons. 
Two fine forms of Cattleya Sybil, Scintilant, and rotundobellum, raised 
from the same seed-pod, are figured together in the Gardeners’ Chronicle 
{P. 119, fig. 39). They are from the collection of J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. 
The former, which received a First-class Certificate, has an Iris-like lip, and 
the latter, which gained an Award of Merit, an entire lip. It may be 
Temembered that we figured seven others from the same seed-pod at page 
265 of our last volume, and another, the superb variety, Lord Kitchener, 
for which Messrs. Hassall received a First-class Certificate, at page 297- 
A very handsome inflorescence of Stenoglottis longifolia has appeared Ab 
the collection of H. J. Elwes, Esq., Colesborne, Glos. The scape is about 
three times as stout as usual, somewhat flattened towards the apex, and 
crowded with its pretty light purple flowers, giving it a very cahe 
appearance. It appeared among plants of the normal form, with which it 
Agrees entirely in its five-lobed lip: 
