Ethos 
THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Vou. Vil.) MAY, 1899. [No. 77. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
Hall, James Street, Westminster, during May, on the 2nd and 16th, when 
the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
The great annual Show will be held in the Inner Temple Gardens, 
Thames Embankment, from May 31st to June 2nd, and the Orchid 
Committee will meet at eleven o'clock on the first day. As on previous 
occasions, Silver Cups and Medals will be awarded according to merit. 
The next meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on May 11th. The 
Orchid Committee meets at noon, and the Annual General Meeting of the 
Society will be held at 2.30 p.m. 
The great Whitsuntide Show of the Manchester Royal Botanical and 
Horticultural Society will be held at the Gardens, Old Trafford, from May 
19th to 25th. Various prizes are offered for Orchids and other plants. 
A beautiful form of Cattleya Triane is sent from the collection of 
J: Wilson Potter, Esq., of Croydon. The sepals and petals are white, but 
the lip delicate blush outside the yellow throat, and thus it comes near the 
variety delicata, in which the blush tint pervades the whole flower. 
Two brilliantly-coloured forms of Masdevallia x Fraseri are sent from 
the collection of Captain Hincks, Richmond, Yorks., by Mr. Rushton. 
They are both seedlings from M. ignea Eckhardii crossed with forms of M. 
coccinea, those known as Lindeni and Harryana miniata respectively. 
The result of the former cross is a beautiful magenta purple flower with 
the base of the tube light-yellow, and the latter a deep, rich crimson of 
equal intensity down to the base of the tube. Another pretty little seed- 
ling sent appears to be a form of M. X Stella (M. Estrade ¢ X 
coccinea Harryana ¢@). 
