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for flower. The third, Mr. Stevens says, bears the same seedling number, 
but differs so much from the others that he thinks it may have a different 
parentage. It has a white ground, with about two purple blotches on the 
sepals, the lower blotch being sometimes broken up, and a purple blotch on 
the lip, in front of the crest, with a few spots at the side. The petals are 
with one exception unspotted. In view of the well known variability of 
seedlings from the same capsule, this may well belong to the same batch. 
The next is a form of O. X armainvillierense, but is most like O. Pescatorei 
in shape. The sepals are tinged with lilac, and bear a few small purple 
spots, the petals are white and unspotted, and the lip bears a deep claret- 
purple blotch in front of the deep orange yellow crest, with a broad basal 
band of claret-purple on the side lobes. The other is said to be from a O. 
x Rolfe Xx crispum, but if so is a surprising reversion, for it has the 
general characters of the former with the ground colour of the sepals and 
petals light yellow. They form a very interesting little group. 
CATTLEYA x CLAESIANA. 
TuIs interesting Cattleya, which was introduced by Messrs. Linden, of 
Brussels, and flowered in the collection of the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, 
in May, 1894, was described as a supposed natural hybrid from C. 
intermedia and C. Loddigesii (O. R. vii. p. 72), and C. xX intermedio- 
Loddigesii, which was exhibited from the collection of the Hon. Walter 
Rothschild, in May, 1896 (G. C. 1896, i. p. 593), was supposed to be 
identical. The information given by M. Forget some time ago, that C. 
Harrisoniana occurs in the hot lowlands near Rio, where it grows in 
company with C. intermedia, C. Forbesii, and others, while C. Loddigesii 
is a cool grower from a higher altitude, suggests that the former may be 
ithe second parent. We should like to see the point cleared up. R.A.R. 
NOTES. 
‘THREE meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 
Royal Horticultural Hall, Vincent Square, Westminster, during September, 
on the 1st, 15th, and 29th, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the 
usual hour, 12 o’clock noon. . 
The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold meet- 
ings at the Corn Exchange, Manchester, on September 3rd and 24th. The 
Committee meets at 12 o’clock noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection 
ifrom I to 4 p.m. 
An illustration of the fine group of Orchids exhibited by Messrs. Wm. 
Bull & Sons at the last Temple Show is given in the Journal of Horticulture 
for August 6th (p. 123). 
