﻿December, 1904] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 375 



The Manchester and North of England Orchid Society will hold meetings 

 at the Coal Exchange, Manchester, on December 8th and 15th. The 

 Committee meets at noon, and the exhibits are open from 1 to 3 p.m. 



The dates at present announced for 1905 are:— January 5, 19 ; February 

 2, 16 ; March 2, 16, 30 (?) • April 13, 27, and May II, the latter being the 

 date of the Annual General Meeting. 



Mr. John E. Lager, in a recent issue of American Gardening remarks 

 (p. 669), that in the collection of Henry Graves, Esq., Orange, New Jersey, 

 U.S.A., at a recent visit he saw " a fine batch of the beautiful Cypripedium 

 Insigne Sanderae, fifty-seven fine plants, twenty-four of which were in full 

 bloom. To the best of the writer's knowledge, there is no other place in 

 the United States where such a number of this beautiful and choice 

 Cypripedium can be seen in bloom at one time, and it is worth a long 

 journey to see it in such numbers." 



Mr. Henry Cooper has been appointed gardener and Orchid-grower 

 to J. H. Grogan, Esq., Slaney Park, Baltinglass, County Wicklow. 



An interesting Catasetum has just flowered in the collection of the 

 Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, M.P., Highbury, Birmingham. Mr. Mack ay 

 remarks that it is a seedling, found growing on a block of wood with an 

 Oncidium from the West Indies three years ago. It was taken off and 

 planted in some sphagnum moss along with Vanda Batemanii, and should 

 have flowered last year, but the spike was eaten off by cockroaches. It 

 proves to be a light form of C. macrocarpum, having the petals very 

 densely spotted with small purple dots. 



THE ORCHID STUD BOOK. 



This work is being printed as rapidly as possible, but we cannot yet fix the 

 date of publication. We regret that the work of revising the records took 

 longer than was anticipated, and it was impossible to commence printing 

 until this was done. So many contradictory and imperfect records were 

 found that it was most difficult to deal with, and at last a few have had 

 to be omitted, as it is impossible to ascertain the parentage. The 1904 

 additions have been collected, but it seemed impracticable to print them in 

 advance of the others, and it is proposed to include them as a supplement 

 to the work, and to give the latter additions in the Orchid Review monthly, 

 as already proposed. It has been a very difficult task, but we believe that 

 our readers will find it invaluable when we can place it in their hands, and 

 this shall be as early as possible. 



