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light yellow. The sepals and petals are ot a pleasing, soft rose-purple shade, 

 and at present reach an expanse of four inches, the petals being just under 

 an inch broad. It is remarkably different from Laelio-cattleya X Aurora 

 (L. Dayana X C. Loddigesii) which has a very broad, dark purple margin 

 round the lip, but there is a certain resemblance in the lip to L. pumila, and 

 also to L.-c. X Leeana (L. pumila X C. Loddigesii), which suggests a query 

 as to whether L. pumila was not the second parent. Such resemblances are 

 rarely meaningless, and one would have expected to find at least some trace 

 of the very marked keels and the colour of L. Dayana. It is a very interest 

 ing novelty, and it may be possible to clear up the doubtful point hereafter.. 



NOTES. 



Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 

 Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during January, on the 15th and' 

 29th respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 



The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will holdi 

 meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on January 9th and 23rd. 

 The Orchid Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspec- 

 tion from 1 to 3 p.m. 



The November number of Messrs. Cogniaux & Goossens' useful little 

 Dictionnaire des Orchidees contains figures of the following species : — 

 Bletia hyacinthina, Bulbophyllum Lobbii var. Nattesise, Cattleya violacea, 

 Chysis laevis, C. Limminghei, Cypripedium X Kubele, Grammatophyllum- 

 EUisii, Laelio-cattleya X Canhamiana alba, Lycaste Micheliana (Cogn.), 

 Polystachya pubescens, Schomburgkia Thomsoniana, Trichopilia tortilis,. 

 and Vanda X Miss Joachim. 



OBITUARY. 



Alfred Bleu.— This well-known hybridist passed away about the- 

 beginning of December last, after a long illness from heart disease, aged 

 66 years. A pharmaceutical chemist by profession, he was an enthusiastic 

 horticulturist, and a pioneer of hybridisation in France. His first hybrid 

 was a Caladium, but he soon turned his attention to Orchids, and produced- 

 the beautiful Cattleya X calummata in 1881. M. Bohnhof enumerates 

 fourteen others, but some have been added subsequently. He was secretary 

 of the Societe de l'Horticulture de France from 1883 till 1892 ; was created 

 Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1886 ; was present at the Hybridisa- 

 tion Conference in London in 1899 ; and a Juror of the International 

 Exhibition in Paris in the following year. He was the raiser of the beauti- 

 ful Miltonia X Bleuana given as a Frontispiece to our second volume. 



