THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
| Vor. I.] NOVEMBER, 1893. (No. 11. , 
NOTES. 
THE meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, on October 24th last, was 
-Temarkable for a fine display of Cattleya labiata from various collections, 
and among them a plant of the rare and beautiful Cattleya labiata alba. 
_ Several interesting hybrids were also exhibited. 
; Two meetings are announced for November, on the 14th and 28th 
’ Fespectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour. 
_ The remarkable Lissochilus giganteus has not often bloomed in this 
Country. We learn from the Fournal of Horticulture, that a plant in the 
a 
% collection of Holbrook Gaskell, Esq., Woolton Wood, near Liverpool, is now 
_“attying a spike nine feet three inches long, and bearing thirty-six flowers 
a the top. It is grown in an eight-inch pot, ina mixture of rough peat, cow 
_ manure, crocks, charcoal, and sand, in a stove temperature, with abundance 
q of water when growing, but kept dust dry when at rest. 
3 In its native home on the Congo it must be a remarkable sight, as it 
_ stows in marshes by the river banks in masses, flowering in profusion, and 
: "© Scapes are said to sometimes attain a height of sixteen feet. 
s 
Orchid collecting in Sarawak is likely to become a difficult mate 
Jah Brooke is said to have prohibited the collection of natural history 
objects within his territory, and is taking stringent measures for preserving 
the fauna and flora, which is said to be in danger of being destroyed, in 
_~*hSequence of the depredations of Orchid hunters and others. 
= How far the precautions are justified we are not able to judge, though 
We can easily conceive cases where such measures might be necessary. 
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