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NOTES. 
THE Great Summer Show of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held 
in the grounds of Holland House, Kensington, on Tuesday and Wednesday, 
July roth and 11th. The Orchid Committee will meet at 11 a.m. on the 
first day, and the exhibition will open to Fellows at 12.30 p.m., ancl to the 
public at 20’clock. Silver Cups and Medals will be awarded according to 
merit, and the arrangements for the Temple Show will apply as far as 
possible. 
Two other meetings will be held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, 
Vincent Square, on the 17th and 31st, when the Orchid Committee will 
meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. The subjects of the special com- 
petition on these dates are :—-July 17th, Lelia tenebrosa and its hybrids; 
July 31st, Phalzenopsis, species and hybrids. 
The International Conference on Plant Breeding will’ be held from 
Monday, July 30th, to Friday, August 3rd. The Conference will open with 
a conversazione in the Society's Great Hall at 9 p.m. on July 3oth, and 
there will be an exhibition of Lantern Slides of Hybrids and other objects. 
Sessions will be held on Tuesday, July 31st, at 10.30 and 2.30; Wednesday, 
August Ist, at 10.30; and on Thursday, August 2nd, at 10.30 and 2.30. 
Papers connected with Orchids are announced as follows :—Natural 
Hybrid Cattleyas, by R. A. Rolfe, Esq.; Odontoglossum Hybrids, by 
De Barri Crawshay, Esq.; and The Germination of Orchids, by M. Noel 
Bernard ; while they will doubtless be included in various papers on general 
subjects which are also announced, as the ‘‘ Mendelian Laws,” Anatomical 
Structure of Hybrids, &c. Other functions are, a dinner at the Horticultural 
Club, Luncheons at Burford and Gunnersbury, a Banquet in the Society’s 
Great Hall, and visits to the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, 
and to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Titles of some of the papers 
had not been received when the provisional programme was_ issued. 
Particulars may be obtained from the Secretary. 
The next meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on July 12th. The 
Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from 
I to 3:p.m. 
M. F. Denis, Balaruc-les-Bains, sends a few good seeds of Lelia anceps 
crossed with Brassolelia Helen, remarking that the cross was made on 
January 17th last, and the seed was mature in 44 months. Thus the period 
of maturing approaches that of Lelia anceps xX Brassavola Digbyana, 
which ripened in 3} months, and Brassolelia Helen is a hybrid between 
Brassavola Digbyana and Leelia tenebrosa. 
