THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
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Vor. IIl.] FEBRUARY, 18095. [No. 26. 
NOTES. 
Tue first meeting of the year of the Royal Horticultural Society was a very 
successful one considering the season, as will be seen by the Report on 
_ another page. The next meeting will be held at the Drill Hall, James 
“Street, Westminster, on February 12th, when the Orchid Committee will 
meet at the usual hour of 12 o’clock, noon. 
An enumeration of African Orchids appears in a work entitled Conspectus 
Flore Africe, by M. Durand and Dr. Hans Schinz, of which the fifth (or 
first) volume has recently been issued. 
~The November number of the Kew Bulletin contains another Decade of 
New Orchids described by Mr. Rolfe, of which particulars will be found 
on another page. 
A paper on the double flower of Epidendrum vitellinum from the 
collection of G. C. Raphael, Esq., of Englefield Green, by Mr. C. H. 
Wright, appears in the recent issue of the Annals of Botany, together with 
an analytical plate. 
An exhibition of Orchids and other plants, as we learn from the Bristol 
- Mercury, was organised by the District Secretaries of the Gardener’s Orphan 
Fund and the Gardener’s Royal Benevolent Institution, and held in the 
large showrooms of Messrs. James Crispin and Sons, Nelson Street, Bristol, 
on January 15th, 16th, and 17th, the proceeds being entirely devoted to 
these two worthy national institutions. A large number of Orchids 
from the collection of Mr. James Crispin, F.R.H.S., of Fishponds, were 
exhibited. 
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