May, 1903.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 159 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the Drill 
Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during May, on the 5th and 19th, 
when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
The great Annual Show will be held in the Inner Temple Gardens, 
Thames Embankment, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, May 26th, 
27th, and 28th, and anumber of Silver Cups and Medals will, as usual, be 
awarded, according to merit. The Orchid Committee will meet at 11 a.m. 
Entries should be posted to the Secretary on May 18th, except in the case of 
single plants for Certificate, which may beentered as lateas May 21st. We 
notice that one of the Rules for the Show stipulates that “ all plants must 
be named.” 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold a meet- 
ing at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on May 7th, when the Committee 
will meet at 11.30a.m. This completes the Society’s year, and the Annual 
Meeting will be held in the afternoon of the same date. 
A curious inflorescence of Coelogyne cristata is sent from the collection 
of Joseph Broome, Esq., Sunny Hill, Llandudno, which at first sight seems 
to combine the varieties Lemoniana and alba, for the five upper flowers 
belong to the former, but the lower one is pure white throughout. A closer 
examination, however, of this flower shows that the lip is entire, acute, 
and without the keels in front, though the hairs are present on the 
lower half, but rather: less numerous than in the normal flowers. The 
sepals, petals, and column are quite normal, and the lip evidently 
owes its peculiarity to the partial suppression of the staminodial appendages 
which assist in the formation of the normal lip. 
OrcHID SALE IN MANCHESTER.—A sale of a private collection of Orchids 
took place on March 12th at the Horticultural Rooms of Messrs. Artingstall 
and Hind, Limited, Manchester, and realised a large sum. Thecollection 
belonged to Mr. A. Y. Lees, of Stretford, who is giving up the hobby on 
account of his leaving the district. The chief feature was the sale of two 
plants of Cattleya Mendelii alba, very distinct specimens, one of which was 
sold to Mr. Samuel Gratrix for 105 guineas. The other, a portion of the 
same plant, was sold for 49 guineas.—Journal of Horticulture. 
The Fournal of the New York Botanical Garden, in a note on. some 
recent additions to the Library of that Institution, includes among 
“‘ notable periodicals ” now in complete files on its shelves, the following 
works treating solely of Orchids:—Lindenia, The Orchid Review, Fournal 
des Orchidées, and L’Orchidophile. 
