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Hae ORCHID REVIEW. 
VoL. VI.| JULY, 1808. [No. 67. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Drill Hall, James Street, Westminster, during July, on the 12th and 26th 
respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 
o’clock noon. 
The July meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on the 14th and 
28th. The Orchid Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to 
inspection at I p.m. 
A flower of a fine form of Odontoglossum x Wilckeanum has been sent 
from the collection of W. G. Groves, Esq., Holehird, Windermere. It 
came out ofan importation of O. crispum. The spike bore twelve very large 
and brightly coloured flowers, the sepals and petals having the elongated 
shape of O. luteopurpureum rather than that of the other parent. 
The Journal of the Kew Guild states that the Orchid houses at Kew 
(Nos. 13 and 14) have long been inadequate for the needs of the large 
collection of these plants now grown there. They are therefore being 
replaced by four smaller houses, after the style most approved by the 
leading Orchid-growers. An addition is also being made to the Orchid pits. 
Mr. G. W. Cummins, late gardener to A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, 
Wallington, has been appointed gardener to W. H. Lumsden, Esq., 
Balmedie, Aberdeenshire. We believe that, as in his last situation, Mr. 
Cummins will have a good collection of Orchids under his charge. 
Cattleya Mendelii grandiflora is an exceptionally large form, with white 
