THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Vor. VII.] . JUNE, 1899. [No. 78. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, during June, on the 13th and 27th 
respectively, 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 on June 8th and 2gth, at the Coal Exchange, Manchester. The 
Orchid Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection 
from one o’clock until four. 
A flower of Paphiopedilum x Richmanii is sent from the collection of 
Captain Hincks, of Richmond, Yorks. It is from seed sown in February, 
1895, the cross being P. bellatulum xX barbatum biflorum. This first 
flower is rather small, but dark, and the spots on the petals numerous and 
minute, and it will probably develop into a good thing as it gets stronger. 
Among the beautiful Orchids figured in the November and December 
numbers of the Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidées are Trichopilia 
suavis and its variety alba, Oncidium varicosum Rogersii and O. v. 
concolor, the latter having lost all the brown markings, Cattleya x Maroni, 
Miltonia x Binoti, Cypripedium xX Morganie and C. insigne Sandere. 
It may be noted that C. exul, O’Brien, should be C. exul, Rolfe. We may 
remind the Editors that a few additional cases would be very useful, for on 
putting the present instalment away, we find that the one devoted to 
miscellaneous genera will not hold all the additions, and two or three others 
are full almost to overflowing. 
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An interesting note in connection with the degeneration of Orchids is 
