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THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Vou. II.] MARCH, 1894. ’ [No. 15. 
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NOTES. 
AT the last meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, held on February 
13th, there was a magnificent display of Orchids, sent from about thirty 
collections throughout the kingdom. Six groups and over fifty subjects 
were entered for the consideration of the Orchid Committee. A report 
appears on another page. 
Two meetings of the Society will be held during March, on the 13th and 
27th, respectively, when = Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour 
of 12 o’clock, noon. 
The Williams’ Memorial Fund trustees have decided to offer a Williams’ 
Memorial Medal for the best group of Cypripediums exhibited at the Temple 
Show of the Royal Horticultural Society, to be held on May 23rd, 24th, and 
25th next. These plants are becoming so numerous, and are, moreover, 
extremely popular, so that an interesting exhibition of the summer flowering 
kinds and a spirited competition may ‘be anticipated. 
A fine plant of the remarkable Cycnoches Loddigesii, the original species 
of the genus, is now flowering at Kew, one raceme bearing four fine male 
flowers, while a second one is pushing, which will flower somewhat later, 
It is to be hoped that the females, formerly known as C. cucullatum, may 
appear now that the species is again in cultivation. The very cipher 
history of the species is given on p. 165 of our last volume. 
- Speaking of structural alterations at Kew, the February number of the 
Kew Bulletin states that the Masdevallia Pit has been reconstructed, and is 
now span-roofed, and on a level with the adjoining range of private Orchid 
Pits, which is = a great improvement. 
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