Jury, 1912.) THE ORCHID REVIEW. 209 
This completes our sketch of the different groups of this remarkable 
family of plants, and it now remains to indicate the progressive sequence of 
the different organs, and some of the steps by which they have reached their 
present degree of complexity. This must be left for a concluding chapter. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
(To be continued). 
THE R.H.S. AND THE ROYAL INTERNATIONAL 
HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION. 
THE following correspondence has taken place between Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
President of the Royal Horticultural Society, and Mr. J. Gurney Fowler, 
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Exhibition :-— 
Royal Horticultural Society, 
Vincent Square, 
Westminster, S.W., 
June 5th, 1912. 
Dear Mr. Gurney Fowler,—The Council of this Society, at their 
meeting yesterday, requested me to convey to you and your colleagues on 
the direction of the Royal International Horticultural Exhibition their 
hearty congratulations on the signal success with which the exhibition has 
been carried out. The Council’s own experience makes them fully aware 
of the long-continued and unremitting labours attending exhibitions on even 
a much smaller scale; and the success which has crowned your efforts 
cannot fail to be most gratifying to all concerned, and to reflect great credit 
on them. It is the universal opinion that a more complete and compre- 
hensive, a better arranged, and more beautiful and instructive exhibition 
has never been seen in any country. No wonder, then, that it has received 
the fullest and most unstinted praise and admiration from their Majesties 
the King and Queen downwards. 
The Council, moreover, are glad to understand that the financial results 
will probably show a satisfactory surplus and relieve the guarantors from 
all liability. 
I am, yours very truly, 
TrEVvoR LAWRENCE, President. 
J. Gurney Fowler, Esq. 
Glebelands, S. Woodford, Essex, 
June 7th, 1912. 
RoyaL INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION. 
Dear Sir Trevor Lawrence,—Your letter of the 5th inst. has been 
received by me with the very greatest pleasure, and this pleasure will also, I 
am sure, be felt by all my colleagues on the Board when I communicate its 
contents to them. 
