APRIL, 1893. [No. 4. 
NOTES. | 
Wo meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held during 
pril, on the r1th and 25th, respectively, at the Drill Hall, James’ Street, 
= oria Street, Westminster, when the Orchid Committee will meet at 
20’clock, noon. The afternoon lecture on the former date will be given 
r Everard F. im Thurn, at 3 p.m., the subject being “ Orchid Life in 
biana. 
The subject is an attractive one, and as the lecturer has a practical 
ledge of the subject, being in fact celebrated for his successful ascent 
nt Roraima a few years ago, a very interesting lecture may be 
ated 
ormation of this kind is frequently difficult to obtain, as commercial 
ations seem to require that collectors of Orchids should work as 
of the most profitable kind. We are, therefore, the more inclined 
ome such a lecture as the one just mentioned. 
vent of the month is undoubtedly the great Quinquennial Inter- 
Exhibition at Ghent, which opens on the 16th, and closes a week 
As pointed out in our February issue, seventy-four classes are set 
or Orchids, with several prizes in each. These include collections and 
Specimens of all the important garden genera, also for collections 
- We believe that several of our British nurserymen will be 
observe in two recent publications a hybrid Cypripedium, to which ; 
of C. x memoria Moensii has been given, in memory of the late” 
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