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far too numerous to count. These photographs show evidence of remark- 
ably successful culture, and respecting this Mr. Moore remarks :—“* My 
gardener, Mr. Knight, received his schooling with Messrs. Charlesworth 
and Co., and he is certainly a credit to them.” 
“Another interesting series is sent by A. H. Hill, Esq., of San Francisco. 
First may be mentioned a photograph of the flower of Cattleya Percivaliana 
having three lips, which was taken in January last. Both the petals and 
lateral sepals are normal, and the lips all distinct and perfect, but smaller than 
usual, so that it appears to be a case of fission of the lip into three. 
A second flower on the same plant had two lips, and Mr. Hill thinks the 
abnormal character may not be constant, for another plant that gave a two- 
lipped flower in 1902 (of which a photograph is also sent) produced a 
perfectly normal flower this year. Another photograph shows a plant of 
Cattleya Warscewiczii bearing an eight-flowered spike, which has just 
appeared in the collection. A second photo shows the buds before 
expansion. Mr. Hill remarks:—‘‘I have had a large proportion of 
my plants this year give me spikes of five and six flowers, some 
of extreme size.’’ About three years ago another plant of this species 
produced a spike of eight flowers, and it is evident that the plants are 
extremely well grown. 
NOTES. 
Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during October, on the 13th 
and 27th respectively, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual 
hour, 12 o’clock noon. 
Meetings of the Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will 
be held at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on October 2nd and 16th. The 
Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from I to 
3 p.m. It may be added that these meetings are now held uniformly on 
Friday, instead of Thursday, as before. 
We learn that the plant of Arachnanthe Lowii in the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Glasnevin, is now producing six racemes, and is very effective. 
It is curious that we have not yet any plausible explanation of the use of 
the few differently coloured flowers which always appear at the base of the 
raceme. 
The August nimber of Messrs. Cogniaux & Goossen’s interesting 
Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidées contains figures of the following 
Orchids:—Aerides odoratum, A. suavissimum, Angrecum Chailluanum 
