got ORCHID REVIEW. 
Vor. III.] DECEMBER, 1895. [No. 36. 
NOTES. 
THE last meeting of the year of the Royal Horticultural Society will be 
held at the Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, on December roth, when 
the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour of 12 o’clock, noon. 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, send three beautiful hybrids, 
all seedlings from Lelia Perrinii. They are Lelio-cattleya X Statteriana, 
L.-c. X Decia, and L.-c. X Lady Rothschild, a pollen parents being 
respectively Cattleya labiata, C. Dowiana, and C. \ The two 
former are pretty well known, and the latter, which is inatly beautiful, 
bears a general resemblance to them. The sepals and petals are light 
mauve-purple, 3} inches long, and the front of the lip deep purple with a 
white throat. 
E. Ashworth, Esq., Harefield Hall, Wilmslow, sends a series of flowers 
of Oncidium varicosum and its splendid variety Rogersii, the lips of the 
latter measuring slightly under 2} inches across. Different individuals vary 
somewhat, as will be seen from the note at page 103. 
A malformed flower of Cypripedium insigne sent by Mrs. Barton, Bow, 
N. Devon, has only the two sepals and the column. Curiously enough it 
flowered four weeks before the normal flowers on the same plant expanded. 
A flower of the beautiful Cypripedium insigne Sandere has been sent 
by O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury. It is from a small plant pur- 
chased about a year ago, and is part of the original piece. 
Another beautiful yellow variety of C. insigne, called Laura Kimball, 
' comes from Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., Clapton Nursery, and though pretty 
similar in shape is remarkably different in colour. It is part of the 
plant in Mr. Kimball’s collection, which was originally obtained from 
Messrs. Low as one of a quantity for a few shillings. Instead of being greenish 
