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SEPTEMBER, 1913.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 295 
in full beauty. A sharp look-out should be kept for slugs, as they are 
extremely partial to this Orchid, the flower spikes and young roots apparently 
forming a special attraction to them. 
OBITUARY, 
WiLLi1AM HoLMeEs.—It is with deep regret that we learn of the death, on 
July 9th last, of Mr. William Holmes, Orchid grower to J. McCartney, 
Esq., Hey House, Bolton, in his sixty-second year. The deceased has long 
been a prominent supporter of the Manchester Orchid Society, and was one 
of the best-known and most highly respected Orchid growers in the North 
of England; and the Journal of Horticulture remarks that the groups and 
specimen plants exhibited by him at the Whitweek Show in Manchester in 
the nineties, when he had charge of the Pickering Lodge collection, have, 
it is asserted by Orchid specialists, never been equalled since in Lancashire. 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural meee will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, West ter, during September, 
on the gth and 23rd, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual 
hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
The next meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on September 25th. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection of 
members and the public from I to 4 o’clock p.m. 
The following amendments have been made in the list of competitions 
for the current session, as published at page 199. The Objet d’ Art offered 
by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. is for New Plants; the Medal presented by 
Mr. J. Evans for Odontoglossums, and that by the Royal Botanic Society 
of Manchester for Cattleyas. 
ORCHIDS FROM PENARTH.—Several interesting and beautiful Orchids 
are sent from the collection of J. J. Neale, Esq., Penarth, by Mr. Haddon, 
including Leeliocattleya callistoglossa, Lustre, Greenwoodii, and elegans, 
Cattleya Tacitus and Dowiana aurea, the handsome Oncidium Lanceanum 
and Kramerianum, Cycnoches chlorochilon, Cirrhopetalum nutans, 
Physosiphon Loddigesii, and several other interesting botanical species. 
R.H.S. Screntiric CoMMITTEE.—The following reference to Orchids 
exhibited at meetings of the Committee are taken from the official report 
(continued from page 168) :— 
June 3rd, 1913 :-— 
L&LIOCATTLEYA FREAK.—Mr. G. Wilson showed a plant of Cattleya 
