TH beORGHITD REVIEW. 
VoL. XX. ] MAY, 1iog12. . [No. 233. 
OUR NOTE BOOK. 
THE list of entries of Orchid exhibits for the coming Royal International 
Horticultural Exhibition, as published at pp. 108, 10g of our last issue, 
affords a pleasurable anticipation of what the great show should be like, if 
the fates are propitious. We know what many of the exhibitors are capable 
of at our great spring shows, and this is no ordinary occasion, so that 
something special is anticipated. The competitive classes will afford a 
pleasing variety, and there will be plenty of room for grouping for effect, so 
that those who prefer this mode of display will have plenty of scope for 
their energy. We anticipate something special in the way of culture, and 
in the classes for Odontoglossums and for hybrids between Cochlioda and 
allied genera. But we will not carry anticipation further, for the show will 
soon be here, and we can only hope that the weather will be as fine as 
usual on Temple Show week, and that the great event will be a landmark 
for some years to come. Next month we hope to give full ‘details. 
Hybrids are increasing so rapidly that we seem to be in perpetual 
difficulties with respect to their nomenclature. At the R.H.S. meeting held 
on April 2nd, a very handsome Odontoglossum of unknown parentage, 
called His Majesty, came before the Orchid Committee, and was awarded a 
First-class Certificate. After the meeting a few members examined it more 
closely, and came to the conclusion that it was a form of O. mirum (crispum 
x Wilckeanum). On afterwards comparing the records the writer 
discovered that the name was applied four years earlier to a different plant 
(see O.R.. xvi. p. 143). It is there recorded that at a meeting of the 
Manchester Orchid Society held on April 1st, 1908, “‘a fine Odontoglossum, 
named His Majesty, probably a hybrid between O. amabile and O. 
ardentissimum, created great interest, and gained a well-deserved First- 
class Certificate. It was a flower of excellent shape and substance, with a 
big solid blotch of rich claret on the sepals, petals, and lip.” It was 
exhibited by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., and it is said to have afterwards 
passed into the collection of Mrs. Gratrix, of Whalley Range. This clearly 
does not agree with ‘the one recently certificated, which latter we have 
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