158 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [May, 1909. 
NOTES. 
‘Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Royal 
Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during May, on the 4th 
-and 18th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 
-o’clock noon. 
The Society’s-great annual Spring Show will be held at the Inner Temple 
‘Gardens on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, May 25th, 26th and 27th. 
‘The Orchid Committee will meet at 11 a.m., and the Exhibition opens to 
‘Fellows at 12.30p.m. Silver Cupsand Medals will be awarded, as usual, 
according to merit. The Sherwood Cup is this year offered for a group of 
Orchids, and the competition will be open to amateurs only—quality being 
preferred to quantity. Extraneous foliage may be used. Notice of 
intention to compete must be sent to the Society eight days beforehand. 
‘Five special judges will be appointed by the Council, who must be assured 
-that the exhibit is in the main due to the work and capacity of the exhibitor 
-or his legitimate employees. 
The next meeting of the Manchester and North of England Orchid 
Society will be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on May 13th. 
‘The Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection 
from ito 4p.m. We learn that the meeting announced for May 27th will 
not be held, on account of the Temple Show. 
THE Best Six Orcuips.—The Garden recently offered a prize for a 
‘popular’essay on the best six Garden Orchids, which was won by Mr. Edwin 
Platt, Borden Wood, Liphook, Hants, with the following: Calanthe x 
Veitchii, Cattleya Trianz, Ccelogyne cristata, Cypripedium insigne, 
Dendrobium nobile and Odontoglossum crispum. It will be noticed that 
‘they are chiefly winter-flowering plants. 
Lorp KITCHENER’s ORcHIDS.—A writer in M.A.P. remarks that Lord 
Kitchener, who leaves India next August, has lately been devoting a great 
amount of his spare time to gardening, which has been for many years a 
favourite recreation of his. His official residence in the fort at Calcutta 
possesses rather extensive grounds, and these he keeps under his personal 
‘supervision when he is staying there. He is a very early riser, and gives 
two or three hours every morning to his gardens, digging and trimming the 
soil with all the ardour of a professional. He has of late years taken great 
interest in Orchid culture, and has visited recently some of the more famous 
Bengal collections. It is his intention when he settles down in England to 
purchase a small estate, somewhere within easy reach of London, where 
there is space to collect Orchids on a large scale. 
