Brit ORCHID KigirW. 
Vou. HI.) AUGUST, 1895. [No. 32. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
Hall, James Street, Westminster, during August, on the 13th and 27th 
respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour of 
12 o’clock noon. 
A small plant of Vanilla planifolia, in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
Bart., at Burford, Dorking, is now bearing over fifty healthy pods, which, 
in the ordinary course, may be expected to ripen early next year. Mr. 
White states that for several years he has been trying to obtain this result, 
though hitherto without success. 
A very pretty white and unspotted form of Odontoglossum X Ander- 
sonianum has appeared in the collection of R. Brooman White, Esq., of 
Arddarroch, which may be called O. X A. virginale, in allusion to its 
‘chaste colouring. It is very distinct, and came exactly the same last year, 
so that the character is evidently constant. A very pretty O. crispum 
roseum, with large light-rose unspotted flowers, also came at the same 
time. 
The last-issued number of the Lindenia concludes the tenth volume, and 
contains a complete index of the plants hitherto figured in the work. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle for July 6th last contains a list of hybrid 
Cattleyas and allies, with their parents and raisers, compiled by Mr. H. 
Chapman, gardener to R. I. Measures, Esq., and brought up to May — 
The list is fairly complete, but we note several omissions, and a few which 
