﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



Vol. XII.] JANUARY, 1904. [No. 133. 



EVENTS OF 1903. 



The past year has been one of the wettest ever remembered — perhaps the 

 wettest since records were kept — and generally disastrous to horticulture 

 outside, but it is doubtful whether Orchids have suffered to any great 

 extent by the climatic conditions. The reduced amount of sunlight in the 

 autumn probably retarded the ripening of the pseudobulbs somewhat, but 

 good growths were made, and on the whole a moist season is favourable tn 

 Orchid culture, especially to Cool Orchids. 



The year has not been marked by any striking event in the Orchid world, 

 but it has been one of steady progress, and a number of interesting novelties 

 have flowered, though these have been almost entirely raised in gardens. 

 Exhibitions. 



The great Quinquennial Exhibition at Ghent is always a noteworthy 

 event, and on this occasion it brought together a magnificent display of 

 Orchids, though there was little in the way of actual novelty except varieties 

 of existing hybrids, some of which were shown in very fine condition. The 

 magnificent group staged by Messrs. Peeters, of Brussels, which gained the 

 premier award, will long be remembered for its uniform excellence. The 

 weather, however, was wretched, and the Exhibition was opened in a 

 blinding snow storm. 



The two great exhibitions of the Royal Horticultural Society at the 

 Temple and at Holland House were also marked by brilliant displays, and 

 the usual fortnightly meetings have been quite up to the average, while the 

 Manchester Orchid Society's meetings, and the Spring and Whitsuntide 

 shows of the Manchester Royal Botanical and Horticultural Society, have 

 been marked for the excellence of the Orchids exhibited. 



Novelties. 



Imported novelties have been very few in number, and it is a long time 

 since so few have been recorded in a season. Those which occur to us are 

 Angraecum Rothschildianum, Dendrobium X Margaret, a supposed natural 

 hybrid, and Bulbophyllum erythrostachyum. Among rarities, however, 



