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re being more and larger green globes in the jars than in 

 outside plantations made at the same time. 



Theodore L. Mead. 

 Oviedo, Florida, U.S.A. 



Mr. Burberry writes to say that last growing season he formed a very 

 good opinion of leaf-mould, but after the resting season his faith has been 

 shaken and he has returned to the use of peat and sphagnum. 



NOTES. 



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

 Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during April, on the 8th and 22nd, 

 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 April 3rd and 17th. The 

 Orchid Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection 

 from 1 to 3 p.m. 



At a Special General Meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society held 

 at the Drill Hall, Westminster, on March 21st, it was decided by a great 

 majority to accept the principle of building a new Hall in celebration of 

 the Society's Centenary, and to adopt the Report then laid before them 

 by the Council. The proposal is to build a new Hall and Offices on a site 

 in Vincent Square, which has been secured by Baron Sir H. Schroder on 

 a lease for 999 years, the estimated cost being from £20,000 to £25,000. 

 It is proposed to open the building in 1904. 



We learn that the handsome Odontoglossum crispum Mabel Whateley, 

 to which an Award of Merit was given by the R.H.S. on February 25th 

 last, has been sold for £200. In our report at page 91 the exhibitor's name 

 was, through a printer's error, given as Whitely, instead of Whateley. 



ORCHID PORTRAITS. 



Axgr.ecum ichxeumoneum.— Gar A. Chron., 1902, xxxi., p. 194, with 



suPP 1 - »g- , 



Cymbidium X Lowio-Mastersii.— Gard. Mag., 1902, p. 128, with fig. 



Cypripedium X A. Dimmock.— Gard. Chron., 1902, xxxi., p. 157. 

 fig. 48. 



Cypripedium x Edmund Rothwell.— A mer. Gard., xxin., p. I3»» 

 fig- 33- 



Cypripedium Hookers.— Amer. Gard., xxiii., p. 138, fig- 33- 



