374 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (DECEMBER, 1911. 
I will close my notes for this year with the following remarks. To reap 
success in Orchid culture, the cultivator must attend to the smaller details, 
observing the condition of his plants in the different positions allotted to 
them, as plants often do better in one position than in another. In this 
way our plants seem to speak to us, and one is often enabled to cultivate a 
plant successfully which hitherto has been refractory. In all branches of 
our profession there is always something to learn, to those who will learn. 
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ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
THE next meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, on December 5th, 
when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock, noon. 
There will be no Show on December r1gth, but the Orchid Committee will 
sit upstairs at the usual hour, when plants submitted for Certificate will be 
received and adjudicated upon. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Society will be held 
at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on December 14th and 28th. The 
Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to the inspection of 
members and the public from 1 to 4 p.m. 
PROPOSED ORCHID SHOW AND CONFERENCE.—At the meeting of the 
Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society on November 7th, the 
Chairman, Mr. J. Gurney Fowler, stated that several Orchidists had ex- 
pressed opinions to the effect that an Autumn Orchid Show and Conference 
were desirable, and he wished to have the opinion of the Committee in 
order that he might bring the matter before the Council. The members of 
the Committee unanimously agreed that the project ought to be carried out, 
and the majority voted for the first meeting to take place in November, 1912. 
Mr. E. V. Low, Vale Bridge, Haywards Heath, informs us that Mr. H. 
Cheal, who for some time has represented him as traveller, has ceased to 
do so since Saturday, November rith last. 
R.H.S. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE.—The following references to Orchids 
exhibited are taken from the Official Report (continued from page 288). 
August 29, Ig1I :— 
Aptopa St. FuscreN.—This new bigeneric hybrid (Cochlioda Neetzliana 
x Ada aurantiaca) was exhibited by Monsieur Henri Graire, of St. Fuscien, 
Amiens. 
British Orcuip Hyprip.—Mr. Botting Hemsley showed a figure of a 
British Orchid found on Reigate Hill in the third week of April last. It 
had three spurs, no pollen, and many other abnormalities. It was some- 
