Marcu, 1910.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 95 
ORCHID NOTES AND NEWS. 
Two meetings of the Royal’ Horticultural Society will be held in the 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during March, on the 
8th and 22nd, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 
o’clock noon. On the latter date a second Masters’ Memorial Lecture 
will be given at 3 p.m., by Mr. A. D. Hall, M.A., F.R.S., on the Adaptation 
of the Plant to the Soil. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will 
be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on March 3rd and 17th. The 
Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from 
Ito4p.m. The following meeting is fixed for April 7th. 
BRASSOCATTLEYA CLIFTONI.—Messrs. Charlesworth write to point out 
that the handsome hybrid figured at page 48 of our last issue is the original 
Brassocattleya Cliftoni, which received a First-class Certificate from the 
R.H.S. on December 8th, 1908. The photograph was taken from this 
original plant. The variety magnifica received a First-class Certificate 
from the R.H.S. on March gth, 1909, and passed into the collection of 
F. M. Ogilvie, Esq., The Shrubbery, Oxford. 
Mrs. Ross, of Florence, writes respecting the hybrid between Paphio- 
pedilum hirsutissim um noted at page 62 of our last issue, and proposing to 
call it P. X Fritz von Hochberg, after Prince Pless’s brother. 
A flower of the beautiful albino, Paphiopedilum Charlesworthii Bromi- 
lowianum, is sent from the collection of H. J. Bromilow, Esq., Rann Lea, 
Rainhill, Lancs., by Mr. Morgan. The dorsal sepal is pure white, some- 
what reflexed at the sides, while the usual brown markings have vanished 
from the petals and lip. 
CERCLE DES ORCHIDOPHILES BELGES. 
THE Cercle des Orchidophiles Belges, reconstituted in 1909, has held on 
the zoth of February, its first General Meeting, at the Botanical Gardens 
in Brussels. Fellows assisted in great number, and the Committee was 
represented by M. le Comte Jos. de Hemptinne (in the chair), M. Ch. 
Dietrich, H. Verdonck, M. Theodore Pauwels, and M. E. Praet. Various 
subjects were attended to, among them the unification of the rules for the 
monthly horticultural meetings at Ghent, Brussels, Bruges, Tournay; the 
participation of the Cercle des Orchidophiles Belges at the future National 
and International Exhibitions ; also the participation of the Cercle at the 
Congrés International d’ Horticulture, which will be held during the World’s 
Fair at Brussels, one of the main objects of the Cercle being the propa- 
gation of Orchid culture. The members of the Committee who undertook 
the task to reconstitute the Society deserve the congratulation of all Orchid 
lovers. 
