THE ORGHID. KEY IEW, 
Vou. VII.) SEPTEMBER, 1899. (No. 81. 
NOTES. 
THERE will be two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society at the Drill 
Hall, James Street, Westminster, during September, on the 12th and 
26th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, twelve 
o’clack noon. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold two 
meetings, at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, during the month, on the 
7th and 21st: The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open 
to inspection from 1 to 3 p.m. 
In continuation of the series of Distinguished Hybridists, the 
Gardeners’ Chronicle has published some additional portraits, including 
that of Norman C. Cookson, Esq., on August 12th (p. 130), and M. Ch. 
*«, Vuylsteke on August 26th (p. 163). The excellent work of both these 
gentlemen among Orchids will be familiar to our readers. 
An illustration, from a photograph, of the interior of an Odontoglossum 
house at Walton Grange, Stone, the residence of W. Thompson, Esq., 
is given in the Journal of Horticulture for August 17th (p. 141, fig. 31). 
Flowers of the remarkable Coelogyne Micholitzii are sent from the 
collection of Sir Frederick Wigan, Clare Lawn, East Sheen, by Mr. 
Young. The species is allied to C. speciosa, but the flowers are about 
a fourth smaller, and are borne on slender arching scapes about 10 inches 
long. The sepals and petals are yellowish white, and the lip shining 
orange-brown with a pair of darker blotches at the base. The keels are 
broad and obtuse, and as the disc is very fleshy it has the appearance 
of being channelled rather than keeled. 
