190 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JUNE, 1906, 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the R.H.S. will be held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, during June, on the 12th and 26th, when 
the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. The 
subjects for the special competition on the former date are Cattleya Mossiz 
and Cypripedium Lawrenceanum, with their hybrids. There will be no 
special classes on the latter date. 
An exhibition of Table decorations, &c., will also be held on 
Wednesday, June 2oth, on which occasion the Committees will not meet. 
Prizes are offered for a Basket of Orchids, with any foliage, in an open 
class, and in one limited to amateurs, but Orchids are excluded from 
several of the other classes. 
The next meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society will be held at the Botanical Gardens, Old Trafford, in connection 
with the Whitsuntide Show of the Manchester Royal Botanical and Horti- 
cultural Society. 
THE LAWRENCE MEDAL.—In order to celebrate the completion of the 
twenty-first year of Sir Trevor Lawrence’s presidency of the Royal Horti- 
culturul Society, the Council have resolved to invite the Fellows to sub- 
scribe to a fund for the purpose of having his portrait painted by Prof. 
Herkomer, to place in the Society’s new buildings, and also to establish, in 
perpetuity, a large gold medal to be called the ‘‘ Lawrence Medal,” to be 
awarded to exhibits of a specially meritorious character. It is estimated 
that a sum of about a thousand guineas will be required, and the Council 
hope that Fellows will generously support the movement. Cheques should 
be drawn in favour of J. Gurney Fowler, R.H.S. Office, Vincent Square, — 
Westminster, S.W., and crossed *‘ London and County Bank.” 
The last issue of the Journal of Horticulture gives an illustration of 
“Orchids in the Open Air” in the collection of the Jate Mr. Alfred Smee, 
The Grange, Hackbridge (p. 449). We had the pleasure of spending 4 
day there some years ago, and saw the plants in their unusual surroundings: 
They were stored on boards close to the surface of a small stream which 
flowed beneath the shade of some tall trees, and were chiefly placed there 
to rest and ripen after making their growths. Few growers have such 4 
situation at command, and we doubt whether the system is of much value 
in our fickle climate. 
The last issue of M. Goossens’ interesting little Dictionnaire Icono- 
graphique des Orchidées, just received, contains figures of the following 
Orchids :—Brasso-cattleya x Peetersii, Cattleya x Adolphine, C. * 
Apes Tey tele eo 
