FEBRUARY, 1915. ] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 63 
At a meeting of the North Shore Horticultural Society, Mass., a 
Certificate of Merit was awarded to Ernest Townsend for a very fine plant 
of Cypripedium insigne in a 10-inch pot. 
The New Jersey Floricultural Society have adopted for the eight monthly 
competitions of the coming year a set of six classes, to be adjudicated 
according to a scale of points. Class 1 is for the best Orchid plant in 
flower, and there are three prizes, of seven, five, and two dollars, and the 
winner of the highest number of points at the series of eight meetings to 
receive the prizes. 
Under the heading of ‘‘ Pleasing Floral Arrangements” the issue for 
December 12th illustrates what is called ‘“‘A Quaint Dinner Favor of 
Oncidiums,” from a photograph sent by Max Schilling, of New York. It 
represents a few short sprays of Oncidium varicosum in an eartl shoe 
Mr. Pantia RaLL1.—We have much pleasure in announcing that Mr. 
Pantia Ralli, Ashtead Park, Surrey, has been elected a member of the 
R.H.S. Orchid Committee for the coming year. 
R.H.S. ScrentTiFIC COMMITTEE.—The following notes on Orchids 
exhibited at the meetings of the Committee are taken from the Official 
Report (continued from vol. xxii. page 375) :— 
January 5th, 1915 :— 
EFFEcT of LiGHT oN OrcHIDS.—Mr. Gurney Fowler sent a number of 
young Orchid plants to draw attention to the short, stout, and sturdy new 
pseudobulbs formed since the plants were removed to their new quarters at 
Pembury, Kent, and away from the smoke area in which they were grown 
heretofore. Sir Edward im Thurn said the appearance of the plants 
teminded him of that shown by Cattleya superba when growing wild on the 
outer branches of trees where much light gained access to It. 
Mr. “>wler also sent a plant of Cattleya Luege bearing flowers on both 
an old ana a new growth; the flowers on the former opened about three 
days before those on the latter. 
January 19th, 1915 :— 
OpontocLossum HorsManu.—Mr. R. A. Rolfe exhibited a flower of an 
Odontoglossum that flowered among some imported O. Pescatorel with 
Mr. W. Bazeley, Twyford, Berks. He referred it to O. Horsman, Rchb. 
t, originally described as a natural hybrid between O. Pescatorei and O- 
lnteopurpureum, but suggested that O. sceptrum (not luteopurpureum) was 
the second parent, as it has the rounder shape and broader segments of the 
latter, as was also the case with the earlier form. The flower was cream 
White, with a group of red-purple spots on each segment, while the lip was 
y ellow, witha red blotch in front of the sceptrum-like crest. 
CyYPRIPEDIUM NIVEUM X C. INSIGNE SANDER ae Boltonii).—Mr. Rolfe 
