May, 1909.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 159 
The Spring Show of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society was a 
-great success, and the Florists’ Exchange says that the Orchid display was 
the best ever seen in Boston, and speaks well for the popularisation of these 
flowers, and for an extensive collection of them, as announced for next 
year. Three very fine groups are illustrated, namely, the first prize col- 
\lection of Mr. E. B. Dane (gr. D. McKenzie), that of Mr. Seth A. Borden, 
and that of the Julius Roehrs Co. All were certainly excellent.): A Vote of 
‘Thanks was given to Mr. E. A. Orpet for a collection of cut Orchids. 
The Report of the R.H.S. Orchid Committee for March 23rd contains 
ithe following :— 
ORCHID MALFORMATIONS.—Mr. Gurney Wilson showed malformed 
flowers of Odontoglossum Harryano-crispum on behalf of Mr. W. Bolton, 
of Warrington. There appeared to be no symmetry about the multiplication 
of parts in these flowers, and Mr. Wilson remarked that, as in the present 
«case, when a portion is removed from an established plant, in the next 
season it is not very unusual for the older portion to bear malformed flowers, 
while the portions removed bear normal flowers. He also showed a flower 
-of Selenipedium caudatum var. Lindeni, from Messrs. Charlesworth. In 
ithis variety the labellum is not slipper-shaped as in the type, but is replaced 
by a very long and tapering petal entirely similar to the two lateral petals ; 
there are also three fertile stamens. The variety was figured by Reichenbach 
(Lindl. Orchid. Linden., 28, 1846), under the name of Uropedium Lindeni. 
‘The form occurs wild. 
EPIDENDRUM X KEWENSE.—Four more of the self-fertilised seedlings of 
-Epidendrum X kewense are in flower, one being primrose yellow, a second 
rosy salmon-colour, a third light salmon, and the other still paler—a kind 
‘of light yellow with a suffusion of salmon-colour. 
A photograph of Cypripedium montanum is sent from the collection of 
Dr. A. W. Hoisholt, Stockton, California. The plant flowered in his green- 
house, but is a native Californian species, and was gathered in the Upper 
‘Sacramento Valley, growing on hilly land, with a southern exposure, and 
under shrubs, in an auriferousclayey loam. It is much like our European 
‘C. Calceolus, except in having a white lip, and several flowers on a scape. 
A very fine form of Oncidium Papilio has been sent from the collection 
-of Dr. Miles Johnston, High Lea, Bideford. It was purchased as a semi- 
established plant, growing on a block. 
THE OrcHiIp Stup-Book.—We may again remind our readers that the 
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