THE ORGHID-KREVIEW. 
WoL. LV J NOVEMBER, 1896. [No. 47. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
Hall, James’ Street, Westminster, during November—on the roth and 24th 
respectively—when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour of 
12 o'clock, noon. 
We have received a copy of a work entitled Hortus Boissiertanus, being 
an enumeration of the plants cultivated in 1885 by M. Edmond Boissier, at 
Valleyres, and La Pierriere, Switzerland. It isa work of over 500 pages, 
ninety of which are devoted to Orchids. The collection is a thoroughly 
representative one, and contains 772 species belonging to 122 genera, both 
the showy and botanical species being well represented. M. Boissier, the 
author of the Flora Orientalis, died in 1885, since which time the collections 
have been maintained and enriched by his son-in-law, M. William Barbey, 
to whom we are indebted for the work, which has been compiled by M. 
Autran, the Conservator of the Boissier Herbarium, and M. Th. Durand. 
A fine two-flowered scape of Cypripedium X cenanthum superbum has 
been sent from the collection of Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, Liver- 
pool, the flowers being very large and richly coloured, and affording evidence 
of good culture. 
and three forms of L. pumila, also come from 
latter bearing two flowers, a 
ted out, the latter 
Flowers of Lelia Dayana, 
the same collection, one inflorescence of the : 
somewhat unusual occurrence. As has already been poin 
Species is rather variable. 
A very remarkable flower of Miltonia spectabili: 
collection of Colonel Marwood, of Whitby, by Mr. Horner, 
s has been sent from the 
in which both 
