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ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during April, on the 
11th and 25th, 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 13th and 27th. The 
Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from 
1 to 4 o'clock p.m. 
The Report of the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society for 
Ig10 contains the following :— 
‘Orchid Nomenclature.—A report on Nomenclature, summarising the 
opinions of experts and hybridists at home and abroad, was sent from the 
Council to the Brussels International Horticultural Congress, which met in 
April, rg10. Dr. Rendle, F.R.S., and Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., represented 
the Society at the Congress, and it is gratifying to know that the Report of 
the Society was approved in some of its most important details. The 
Report is now awaiting final confirmation by the next International 
Botanical Congress, before being finally adopted for International use.” 
‘‘ Several recent valuable gifts of Orchids, and the necessity of giving the 
students a proper training in the cultivation of this very popular class of 
plants, made it essential to erect an Orchid House.” 
Among the list of presents we notice Orchids from Baron Bruno 
Schréder and Messrs. Sander. 
Messrs. Stuart Low & Co., Enfield, write that after March 31st, IgIt, 
Mr. F. W. Ashton will cease to represent them in the Orchid interest. 
Mr. F. W. Ashton writes that on and after April 1st, 1911, he will 
establish himself as a Horticultural Commission Agent at 116, Hewitt Road, 
Harringay, specialising in Orchids and Carnations. 
Tur OrcHip WorLp.—We have received together the first five numbers of 
a new work bearing the above title, edited by Mr. Gurney Wilson, F.L.S., 
the first number being dated October, 1910. The first number contains an 
illustrated article on the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., on 
Vanda coerulea, by Mr. H. G. Alexander, Rare Native Orchids, by Mr. A. 
D. Webster, figures of Angraecum *sesquipedale, Cattleya Lawrenceana 
Mary Regina, and others, Reports of Societies, and notes and descriptions 
of various kinds. Succeeding numbers contain articles on the collections of 
W. Thompson, Esq., M. Firmin Lambeau, and R. Brooman White, Esq., 
with portraits of the owners, their residences, and some of the plants in their 
