mrt ORGHID- REVIEW. 
VoL. VI.] SEPTEMBER, 18608. LNo. 69. 
NOTES, 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
Hall, James Street, Westminster, during September, on the 6th and 20th 
respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 
12 o'clock, noon. 
On the former occasion a lecture will be given by Mr. J. W. Burkinshaw, 
at 3 p.m., on Disas. 
The September meetings of the Manchester and North of England 
“~ Orchid Society will be held on the 8th and 22nd. The Orchid Committee 
meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection after 1 o’clock. 
\ A superb spike of Lelio-cattleya x elegans Macfarlanei bearing eight 
flowers is sent from the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., The Woodlands, 
Streatham, by Mr. Coles. The sepals and petals are suffused with pink, 
irregularly flaked with rose-purple near the margins, especially on the 
petals; the lip strongly trilobed, the side lobes strongly infolded, dorsally 
flattened, and suffused with pink, and the front lobe roundish, undulate, and 
of a brilliant amethyst colour. It is very beautiful, and last year it bore a 
_ spike of nine flowers. 
_ Flowers of a very fine form of Cattleya x Lord Rothschild are sent from 
the collection of N. C. Cookson, Esq., Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, by 
Mr. Murray, who remarks that it is much finer than the one exhibited last 
