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318 THE ORCHID REVIEW. {OcropeR, 1907, 
A very beautiful deep yellow form of Oncidium pretextum is sent from 
‘tthe collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking. We do 
not know its history, but it recalls very much the beautiful Oncidium 
ccrispum flavum (Veitch Man. Orch. viii. p. 28), in which the flowers are 
recorded as deep yellow, with the central area of each segment paler. Sir 
Trevor’s plant may be described as having light yellow flowers, with the 
markings very deep yellow instead of brown, forming a very effective com- 
‘bination. 
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NOTES. 
‘THREE meetings of the R.H.S. at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Vin- 
-cent Square, Westminster, are fixed for October, the dates being the Ist. 
15th, and 29th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 
-o’clock noon. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold meet- 
ings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on October ard, 17th, and 31st, 
‘The Committee‘meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from 
I to 3 p.m. 
Mr. Henry Ballantine, for many years head gardener to Baron Sir Henry 
Schréder, who has one of the finest Orchid collections in the country under 
his care, has been elected by the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society 
a Victoria Medallist of Horticulture. 
The remarkable specimen of Lzlio-cattleya elegans from the collection 
-of Major G. L. Holford, Westonbirt, Tetbury, for which Mr. Alexander 
‘was awarded a Silver-gilt Lindley Medal by the R.H.S. on August 2oth, is 
figured from a photograph in the Gardeners’ Magazine (p. 627). It was 
grown in a large tub, and bore twenty-five flower-spikes and an aggregate 
of 230 flowers, the largest having thirteen. It is certainly a noble specimen. 
Orchid Sale at Schénbrunn.—The Gardeners’ Chronicle remarks that as 
a consequence of the overcrowding of the Orchid houses in the Imperial 
Gardens at the palace of the Austrian Emperer, 2000 plants, as in the 
previous year, have been offered for sale tecently. The plants were put in 
‘small lots, and included some that were raised in the Schénbrunn Gardens. 
One of these novelties carries the name of Cattleya x schoenbrunnensis, 
ane is the result of a cross between C. Bowringiana and C. maxima 
floribunda. The blooms are said to be of a larger size, darker in colout, 
and the lip more beautifully marked than those of the parents. Cut blooms — 
of choice Cattleyas, Dendrobiums, and Coelogynes were likewise sold by — 
-auction. Such sales will be held an nually at Schénbrunn. 
