LHEWORCHID REVIEW. 
Vo. II] FEBRUARY, 1894. [No. 14. 
NOTES. 
THE show of Orchids at the Drill Hall, Westminster, on January 16th last, 
was probably the best ever seen there at this particular season, no doubt 
owing to the mildness of the weather. Some seventy subjects passed before 
the Orchid Committee. The leading feature of the show was a splendid 
group of white forms of Lelia anceps from Messrs. F. Sander and Co., 
of St. Albans, which bore about two hundred and twenty flowers on sixty 
spikes. 
A particularly fine specimen of Dendrobium x Cooksoni was exhibited 
by Mr. Perkins, gardener to the Hon. W. F. Smith, M.P., Greenlands, 
Henley-on-Thames, in a miscellaneous collection of plants, and therefore 
did not come under the notice of the Orchid Committee. The plant was in 
splendid health and carried hundreds of its beautiful flowers. 
The rare Dendrobium atroviolaceum, which was exhibited by Mr. W. H. 
Young, Orchid grower to F. Wigan, Esq., Clare Lawn, East Sheen, is a 
very distinct and beautiful species from New Guinea, for which a First-class 
Certificate was awarded. The raceme bore eight flowers. Four years ago, 
when originally introduced by Messrs. Veitch, it was only artes <a) worthy 
of a Botanical Certificate. 
The remarkable Mormedes Rolfeanum was also exhibited by Sir Trevor 
gece Bart., Burford, Dorking, and received a Botanical Certificate. 
‘The flowers are perhaps the largest in the genus, and ofa peculiar lurid 
reddish purple shade. 
_ The next meeting of the Royal Horticultural oe: will be held on 
February 13th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour of 
twelve o’clock noon. 
