﻿THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



[August, 1904. 



cultivation, and to which a First-class Certificate was given ; the other was 

 a lecture on Orchids by Mr. James Bidgood. The show was also 

 exceptionally rich in varieties. 



The meeting brought together a large muster of Fellows, and afforded a 

 good opportunity for the inspection of the building, which seemed to give 

 general satisfaction. The Exhibition Hall is a great improvement on the 

 Drill Hall, in which the meetings have been held up to the present, for, 

 including the two annexes, it has nearly double the area, and the arrange- 

 ments for lighting, heating, and ventilating the building are greatly superior. 

 The Orchid Committee sat in one of the annexes, and the lecture was given 

 in the Lecture Room upstairs. The Library and Offices are also well 

 appointed, and when a little more time has elapsed to enable things to 

 settle down into working order the Society will be much better equipped 

 for its work, and my readers will join in wishing it increased prosperity in 



I alluded to the appearance of the remarkable Odontioda X Vuylstekeas 

 at page 162, and now I see we have a fine photographic illustration at page 

 209, in which its relation to its parents is well shown. It is strikingly 

 distinct from both, and while an undoubted horticultural acquisition it is 

 equally interesting on other grounds. It is, perhaps, not very remarkable 

 that the two should cross together, for they are nearly related — in fact, the 

 Cochlioda was once called Odontoglossum — but it is rather curious how much 

 of the Odontoglossum shape has come out in the hybrid. I wonder how 

 long it will be before other seedlings make their appearance in the flowering 

 stage. 



The Gardenet s' Chronicle remarks: — "The colour of the segments is so 

 peculiar that no two people whom we asked were in agreement about it. 

 ' Salmon-cherry,' an odd combination, truly — was as near an approximation 

 as words would convey. The toothed crest of the lip was yellow. A cut 

 spike bearing six flowers, each about 2h inches across, was all that was 

 exhibited, but the Committee waived their usual rule of requiring a plant 

 to be placed before them by granting the spike a First-class Certificate. A 

 Botanical Certificate would have been much more appropriate, and would 

 really have conferred greater honour ; but unfortunately exhibitors do not 

 attach much importance to that award, and it is one that carries little or no 

 financial weight, so this most wonderful hybrid has to take its place amongst 

 the multitudinous ruck of plants honoured by First-class Certificates." 

 This is almost suggestive of the need of a special Certtficate to meet such 

 exceptional cases, for we once had the definition that a Botanical Certificate 



