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proportions, and a particularly happy one. The shape is excellent, the 
dorsal sepal being 24 inches broad, very slightly concave, deeply channelled 
up the centre, and reticulated and blotched all over with red purple on a 
rosy lilac ground. The petals are 2 inch broad, by less than twice as long, 
and the lip is short and broad, lined above and spotted below with reddish 
purple on a light ground. The lip is short and broad, deep red-brown in 
front, and the staminode is whitish with a bright yellow centre. In shape 
the hybrid. is most comparable with GC. Charlesworthii, whence the rosy 
ground colour is also derived, while the markings are as clearly derived 
from C. Fairrieanum. It is a seedling flowering for the first time, and 
should develop into a very handsome thing. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during March, on the 
4th and 18th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 
12 o’clock noon. | The following meeting is fixed for April 1st. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will 
be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on March 6th and 20th. The 
Committee meets at noon, and exhibits are open to inspection from I to 
4p.m. The following meeting is fixed for April 3rd. 
The Garden, in its issue for February tst, under the. heading ‘‘ Workers 
among the Flowers,” publishes a portrait of Major C. C. Hurst, F.L.S., 
Director of the Burbage Experimental Station, and co-Editor with Mr. 
R. A. Rolfe, A.L.S., of the Orchid Stud-Book, a work which is described as 
the only one of its kind ever compiled. 
In the Report of the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society for the 
past year reference is made to the removal of the Great May Show to 
Chelsea in future. The Society has received much kindness from the 
Master and Benchers of the Temple in being allowed for so long a time to 
make use of their gardens, but for several years past the feeling of attach- 
ment to the Temple Garden and dislike of the crowding have been 
Struggling together for the mastery; and now that the International 
Exhibition has proved that people will go to Chelsea, the Council have 
unavoidably come to the conclusion that it is their bounden duty in the 
interest of the vast majority of the Fellows to move the show in future to 
Chelsea, which affords a site nearly three times as large as the Temple. 
The Great May Show will accordingly be held on May 2oth, 21st and 
22nd, 1913, on the site of and ina similar tent to last year’s International, 
and the Council hope that. Fellows will individually invite and encourage 
their friends to attend. , 
