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CATTLEYA x GLORIOSA. 
In the Gardeners’ Chronicle for June 25th last (p. 418) a hybrid is described 
by M. Cogniaux, under the name of Cattleya x gloriosa, which was raised 
by M. A. S. Peeters, of Brussels, from C. Warneri and C. Schilleriana. It 
is evidently a handsome thing, but if the parentage is correctly stated the 
plant must be considered a form of a handsome natural hybrid described 
many years earlier in the same work, namely C. x Whitei, (Gard. Chron., 
1882, xviil., p. 586). Then there is an earlier artificial hybrid derived from 
the same two species, namely, C. X Russelliana, raised by M. G. Mantin. 
which has since been considered as a form of C. X Whitei (Orch. Rev., vii., 
p. 292). It is unfortunate that this now well-known plant should have received 
an additional name. There is also an earlier C. gloriosa (L. Lind. in Journ. 
d. Orch., \i., p. 342), which has dropped into the ranks of synonymy, being 
a form of the old C. labiata. KR. A. Re. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during August, on the 13th and 
27th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock 
noon. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society hold no meeting 
during August, their next meeting being fixed for September 5th. 
An illustration of a house of Miltonia vexillaria in the collection of 
R. I. Measures, Esq., Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, appears in The 
Garden for July 27th (p. 61). It is very effective, and shows how well Mr. | 
Chapman has succeeded with the culture of this plant in an essentially 
metropolitan locality. 
We learn from Mr. Elwes that the charming little Cypripedium guttatum, 
for which he received a Botanical Certificate at the recent Temple Show, 
was brought home by him all the way from the Altai Mountains. It was 
found at a high attitude, where it is covered with snow for about eight 
months of the year, growing and flowering during the short summer. Mr. 
Elwes has succeeded in growing it for three successive years by keeping it 
in his ice-house during the whole period that it is at rest—certainly a novel 
method of treatment, but one which is justified by results. 
Lelio-cattleya x Bertha is the name of a hybrid derived from Lelia 
grandis XX Cattleya Schroedere, which has recently flowered in the 
collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, Streatham, and is 
described in The Garden, 1901, \ix., p. 369. 
