NOVEMBER, 1913.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 353 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during November, on the 
4th and 18th. The first will be a Special Show of autumn-flowering 
Orchids. The Orchid judging will commence at 10 a.m., and the 
Committee will meet at 11.30 a.m. At the second meeting the Orchid 
Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. The succeeding 
meeting will be held on December 2nd. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on November 13th and 27th. 
The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to the inspection 
of members and the public from 1 to 4 p.m. 
Mr. J. Harrison Dickx.—A representative gathering of members of the 
Horticultural Press assembled at the Hotel Windsor, on September 11th, 
and presented Mr. J. Harrison Dick with a gold watch, suitably inscribed, 
and an illuminated address, to mark the occasion of his departure for 
America. Mr. Dick has been for nearly twenty years connected with the 
Journal of Horticulture, and for the last two years its chief Editor, and the 
presentation bears testimony to the high esteem in which he is held among 
his fellow pressmen. Mr. George Gordon made the presentation in a few 
well-chosen words, and was supported by Mr. C. H. Curtis, Mr. John 
Fraser, Mr. John S. Brunton, and others. Mr. Dick, who was to sail for 
New York at: the-end of the month, suitably responded. The Journal of 
Hlorticulture will in future be edited by Mr. Horace J. Wright, youngest 
son of Mr. John Wright, V.M.H., and for some time assistant Editor of the 
Agricultural Economist and Agricultural Review. 
Mr. J. GurNEY Fow er, Treasurer of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
and Chairman of the Orchid Committee, has taken possession of his new 
estate, ‘‘ Brackenhurst,” Pembury, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and 
desires that communications be sent to him there instead of to Glebelands, 
South Woodford. The fine new block of houses is almost completed, and 
the collection will soon be removed to its new quarters. 
We learn that Messrs. Stuart Low & Co., have removed their Orchid 
department to a new branch establishment at Jarvisbrook, Crowborough, 
some eight minutes walk from Crowborough station, on the Brighton and 
Tunbridge Wells line, and that the removal of the plants is now completed. 
A notice appears in our advertisement pages, and a visit of inspection is 
cordially invited. 
As notified last month, Messrs Flory & Black have now taken over the 
