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THE ORCHID REVIEW. [Fkiuu akv, 1904. 



in leaves than in flowers, due, presumably, to the higher specialisation of 

 the parts of the latter, many abnormal forms of which were obviously due 

 to more or less reversion to the primary leaf type. 



NOTES. 



Two meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at the 

 Drill Hall, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, during February, on the 9th 

 and 23rd, when the Orchid Committee will meet at the usual hour, 

 12 o'clock noon. 



The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold 

 meetings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on February 5th and 19th. 

 The committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from 



We have received the 1904 issue of One and All Gardening, a popular 

 Annual for Amateurs, Allotment Holders, and Working Gardeners, being 

 the ninth of the series, edited by Edward Owen Greening. It is profusely 

 illustrated, and we find a short article devoted to the culture of Dendrobium 

 infundibulum. In an article entitled " Some Plants of Shakespere," by the 

 Hon. H. A. Stanhope, we find a reference to " Long purples." These 

 are the Orchis mascula, with the flowers of varying pink and purple- 

 shades, a plant to be found in moist sheltered spots. 



American Gardening states that " fire in a boiler room of the Orchid 

 house at Shaw's Botanic Garden on November 7th destroyed collections o 

 rare and valuable plants. The glass roofs of the hothouses cracked and 

 gave way under the intense heat, fragments falling on the rare plants am: 

 finishing the work of ruination left undone by the flames. Quickly as possible 

 the garden attaches were organized into a salvage corps, and set to work 

 carrying the finest plants from the buildings. Thousands were saved ir 

 this way, but others, many of which may never be replaced, went up ir 

 smoke. Orchids, specimen Palms, Persian Cacti and others were includec" 

 in the list of destroyed. The fire was finally checked, but not until about 

 10,000 dols. damage was done from the standpoint of architectural loss. 

 The loss in botanical specimens is beyond the measuring power of money.*' 



An excellent photograph of the late M. Godefroy Lebeuf, who was an 

 old Kewite, appears in the issue of the Journal of Kcw Guild for 1903. He 

 left Kew in 1872. The frontispiece of the work is a photograph of Mr. 

 W. B. Latham, another old Kewite, who has recently retired from the 

 curatorship of the Birmingham Botanic Garden, after over 35 year- 



