THE ORGH LD REVIEW. 
Vous: Vj APRIL, 1897. [No. 52. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, during April, on the 13th and 27th, 
respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 
o'clock, noon. 
A magnificient form of Oncidium Papilio has been sent from the 
collection of G. F. Moore, Esq., Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. 
The flower measures over 54 inches in diameter across the petals, and the 
lip is over 2 inches broad, with a bright red-brown margin over half-an-inch 
broad. It is exceptionally fine. 
A twin-flowered spike of Cypripedium xX Youngianum superbum has 
been sent from the collection of Norman C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, 
Wylam-on-Tyne. It was raised in the collection, and Mr. Cookson considers 
it one of the best of the section, as it has the great advantage of being a 
very free-flowerer. It is exceedingly handsome, the dorsal sepal being over 
2 inches broad and the petals 4} inches long by an inch broad—quite 
tivalling C. x Morganiz, with the advantage of being more free-flowering. 
A very pretty form of Cattleya Trianz has been sent from the collection of 
H. A. Higgins, Esq., of West Kirby. It is much like C.T. Arkleana, figured 
at p. 81 of our last volume, but the petals are not so broad and rounded, and 
further differ in the presence of a bright purple blotch near the apex. The 
yellow blotches on the lip are nearly as much obliterated as in that, by the 
rich purple of the front lobe, and thus it is sufficiently identical with the 
variety Backhouseana. It is a small plant, flowering for the first time out 
of Messrs. Cowan’s importations, and, good as it is, will probably yet 
improve. 
