30 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during January, on the 15th 
and 29th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 
12 o'clock noon. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will 
be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on January 1oth and 24th. 
On October 6th last, a Gold Medal was awarded to Mr. E. O. Orpet, 
South Lancaster, Mass., by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, for a 
collection of ten hybrid Orchids which he had raised from seed. They | 
included two plants of Cattleya x Thayeriana, C. X T. lobata, two forms 
of Lelia x nigrescens, (one being much finer than the one figured at page 
337 of our seventh volume), L. xX juvenilis superba, Lelio-cattleya X 
bletchleyensis, and L.-c. x C. G. Roebling. Photographs of several of 
them are sent by Mr. Orpet, and they certainly form a charming little 
group. 
Mr. Orpet has been very successful with his hybrids, as he has about 
fifteen hundred seedlings coming on as the result of five years’ work, and a 
number of them are approaching the flowering stage, which, he remarks, 
makes life worth living after the long period of waiting for results. A 
house of his seedlings is shown in the issue of American Gardening for 
November 3rd last (vol. xxi. p. 729), showing that the plants are in 
vigorous health. 
According to a note by Mr. Niceville, in a recent number of the 
Journal of the Astatic Society, the larve of an Indian butterfly, Chliaria 
Othonna, lives upon the Orchids Rhynchostylis retusa and Saccolabium 
papillosum, and thus we suppose would have to be classed with the 
Cattleya Fly as a pest if introduced to our collections. 
A note in American Gardening for December 22nd, states that Mr. Oakes 
Ames has presented his unrivalled collection of coloured plates of Orchids 
to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, to be known as the Oakes Ames 
collection of coloured drawings of Orchids. 
A fine example of a double flower of Calanthe vestita rubro-oculata is 
sent by Mr. Stacey, gardener to Mrs. Jose, Mallingey, Perranwell Station, 
Cornwall. It appeared on a strong spike of about forty flowers, and really 
consists of two flowers fused together, for the pedicle is flattened, and bears 
two columns and lips placed side by side, two spurs, four petals, and five 
sepals. 
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