NOTES. 



Parthenogenesis. — Another instance of 

 development of the ovules without transmis- 

 sion of the paternal characters has occurred 

 in a plant of Zygopetalum intermedium 

 pollinated with Cymbidium Tracyanum. The 

 pod was made and the seedlings raised by 

 Messrs. J. and A. McBean, of Cooksbridge, 

 and the many plants that have flowered are 

 nothing else than pure Zygopetalum inter- 

 medium. The exact means by which the 

 ovules of certain species are stimulated into 

 growth without any visible signs of hybridity 

 has never been satisfactorily explained. 



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R.H.S. Awards. — At the meeting of the 

 Orchid Committee, August 17th, 1915, Mr. J. 

 Gurney Fowler brought forward the question 

 of granting some suitable award to immature 

 seedlings flowering for the first time, in order 

 to encourage raisers to exhibit their novelties 

 on the earliest occasion possible, instead of 

 waiting until the plants reach maturity. He 

 suggested that something in the way of a 

 Provisional Recommendation might be used, 

 and that the same be brought into working 

 order by January ist, 1916. It was also 

 proposed to inaugurate a second award for 

 rare species, those that formerly received 

 the Botanical Certificate, in order that a 

 record might be made of the appearance of 

 these plants at the Royal Horticultural 

 Society. The need for some official recog- 

 nition of the above two classes of Orchids 

 was discussed in our issue of May, 191 5, 

 p. 175. We shall be glad to receive the 

 opinions of Orchid growers upon the various 

 points involved. 



OdoNTOGLOSSUM Lobbi^. — This hybrid 

 between amabile and Pescatorei was 

 originally exhibited at the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, February 12th, 1907, by Mr. J. 

 Gurney Fowler, who named it in honour of 

 his god-daughter. The name was duly 

 published, but in subsequent records it was, 

 by a clerical error m the initial letter, changed 

 into Cobbiae, an appellation that has remained 

 in use ever since. The Manchester Orchid 

 Society, June 17th, 191 5, gave an Award of 

 Merit to the Ashlands variety of Cobbiae 

 (amabile x Pescatorei) which should have 

 been Lobbiae, although we inadvertently 

 omitted to make the correction in our report 

 of the meeting on page 264. 



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Brides maculosum Schroderi. — 

 Messrs. Stuart Low and Co. have recently 

 flowered this pretty rarity, which belongs to 

 an interesting section of Orchids seldom seen 

 in present-day collections, although well 

 worthy of closer recognition. It was originally 

 flowered by Mr. J. H. Schroder, of Stratford 

 Green, Essex, who supplied the following 

 particulars: — "I purchased it about the year 

 1844 at Stevens' sale, Covent Garden, being 

 part of a small importation from the hills near 

 Bombay. My attention was directed to it by 

 its very distinct habit, and the remains of a 

 flower-spike from every leaf. We have 

 flowered it now for three years, and each year 

 finer than the preceding, and should we be 

 fortunate enough to attain its native flowering 

 habit, I need not say what a magnificent thing 

 it will be. It appears to be a hybrid between 

 .i^^rides crispum and A. maculosum, and on 



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