﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



[July, 1904. 



NOTES. 



The next meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society will be held at 

 Holland House, Kensington, by kind permission of the Earl of Ilchester, 

 on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 12th and 13th. The Orchid Committee 

 will meet at 11 a.m. on the first day, and the Show will be open to Members 

 at 12.30 p.m. 



The following meeting will be held at the Society's New Hall, Vincent 

 Square, on Friday, July 22nd, on which date the Hall will be formally 

 opened by their Majesties the King and Queen. 



The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold meet- 

 ings at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on July 15th and 29th. The 

 Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open to inspection from 1 

 to 3 p.m. 



A very handsome flower is sent from the collection of R. G. Thwaites, 

 Esq., of Streatham (gr. Mr. Black), called Odontoglossum Pescatorei Grand 

 Duchess. The segments are very broad, and the flower measures barely 

 under 3^ inches in diameter across the petals. These are pure white, but 

 the sepals are tinged with purple, in the dorsal chiefly in a band along the 

 median line. The lip is finely shaped, and the basal markings very rich red- 

 purple, with a few similar spots in front of the crest. The inflorescence 

 bore eleven flowers, and this is the third time the plant has bloomed, and 

 the flowers are said to have had the same character on each occasion. It is 



Five good flowers of Odontoglossum crispum are sent from the collection 

 of J. Wharin, Esq., of Masbro, Rotherham. Four may be described as 

 fairly typical, and the other is O. c. roseum. One of the others, however, 

 has unspotted petals with a few blotches on the sepals and lip. They are 

 from a small amateur's collection, and all are finely developed, showing 

 that their culture has been thoroughly grasped. 



Is it a fact that Cattleya Mossiae and C. Mendelii cannot be intercrossed ? 

 We have been told so by an expert hybridist, and it would be rather interest- 

 ing to have particulars of the attempts that have been made. 



A plant of the pretty little Cleistoma secundum (Rolfe) has just flowered 

 in the collection of Mrs. Brandt, of Zurich. It is believed to be a native of 

 Burma, and was introduced by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., who flowered it 

 in 1890. It has narrow oblong leaves, some 3} to 5 inches long, and 

 shorter, more or less drooping racemes, on which the flowers are 

 arranged in a more or less erect manner. Thus the racemes are one-sided. 



