62 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [FEBRUARY, 1903. 
The details of the cross, with the date, should now be entered in a note 
book, with a number, which latter should also be written on a small ticket 
and tied on to the flower. Crosses should be numbered consecutively, and 
carefully entered, space being left for future use, such as the details of 
sowing the seed, &c. 
The effect of pollination will soon be seen, in the flower falling prema- 
turely, and the column beginning to swell, and the chief thing now to be 
attended to is to keep the plant healthy and avoid checks and over- 
stimulation. 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during February, on the roth and 
24th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o'clock 
noon. The Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on the 
former date, at 3 p.m. 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 
meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on February 5th and rgth. 
The Committee meets at 11.30 a.m., and the exhibits are open to inspection 
from 12.30 to 3 p.m. 
Three years ago our esteemed contemporary, Indian Gardening, added a 
Planting section, and the new development has assumed such importance 
that the journal will in future be known as Indian Planting and Gardening, 
The scope and policy of the journal will remain as before, though the Tea 
and Planting section now takes precedence. The work now commences its 
twelfth volume, ina slightly enlarged form, and in the issue just to hand 
we find, among other matters, articles on Phalznopsis Schilleriana, which 
thrives well in India, and the Vanilla, which is attracting attention there as 
an economic plant. 
A curiously abnormal inflorescence of Paphiopedilum insigne is sent 
from the collection of E. P. Collett, Esq., of Hale, Cheshire, of which a 
photograph is sent. There are two flowers, the upper one of which is 
normal, but the lower one is quite abnormal, and its bract has developed 
into a leaf about twice as long as the (normal) petals. The dorsal sepal is 
small, and twisted round to one side, and opposite to the lip there is a 
petal-like body which seems to be united to a crumpled portion of one of 
the other segments, this part being obscured by the lip. The deformity is 
not likely to be permanent. 
