OCTOBER, 1911.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
‘THE next meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on October roth, 
‘when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
No groups will be admitted on this occasion, but only plants shown for 
‘Certificate, as the Show on this occasion is devoted to British grown fruit. 
The next ordinary meeting will be held on October 24th. 
The next meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on October 12th. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection 
from 1 to4 p.m. The following meeting is fixed for November 2nd. 
A fine photograph of an albino of Cattleya Warscewiczii is sent by Mr. 
Andrew McDonald, Superintendent of the J. B. Coryel! Estate, Menlo Park, 
‘San Mateo, California. The scape, which was recently produced, bears 
three flowers, which Mr. McDonald remarks measured 94 and 10 inches from 
tip to tip of the petals, the colour being pure white, with some greenish 
yellow markings in the throat of the lip. The flower lasted three weeks, 
but after the eighteenth day it developed a slight pink tinge on the front of 
the lip. Finally he remarks, “We are anxiously looking forward to its 
future flowering, when we shall exhibit this truly fine acquisition.” 
An illustration of the fine group of Vanda ccerulea exhibited at an 
‘R.H.S. meeting held in August last by the Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim 
Palace, Woodstock, and to which a Silver-gilt Flora Medal was awarded, is 
‘illustrated in the Gardeners’ Magazine for September 30th (page 722). 
L#LIOCATTLEYA AMANDA.—The history of the natural hybrid Leelio- 
-cattleya amanda, and the fact that it had now been raised artificially were 
given at page 216. An artificially-raised seedling was exhibited by Messrs. 
James Veitch & Sons at the R.H.S. meeting held on September 26th, which 
agrees well with the one previously noted. We wish that someone would 
now take any opportunity that may present itself of intercrossing Lelia 
Boothiana and Cattleya Forbesii, in the hope of proving the natural hybrid 
Leliocattleya Verelii. R.A.R. 
L#LIOCATTLEYA ELEGANS.—A flower of Lzliocattleya elegans has been 
-sent from the establishment of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Langley, 
‘Slough, by Mr. Briscoe, who remarks that it was raised from Cattleya 
Leopoldii crossed with a white form of Lelia purpurata, and that it 
flowered for the first time a year ago. It was thought that the parentage 
