December 21, 1912. 



THE 



GARDENERS' MAGAZINE 



973 



been in cultivation there for forty years ; The average attendance has been fourteen 



Lissochihis Andersoni^ a moisture-loving, 

 tropical, terrestrial orchid from West 

 Africa J with greenish-yellow sepals and 

 petals and a purple-lined lip, and liosa 

 omeiensis, found in Szechuan about a quar- 

 ter of a century ago, but more recently col- 

 lected by Mr. E. H. Wilson, and introduce<l 

 to cultivation by Messrs. J. Veitch and 

 Sons. It is a liardy rose, with elegant, 

 much-divided foliage, white flowers about 



at Cambridge in the Michaelmas 



during each t-erm. The training of pio- 



bationers for the Indian Forest Serviie 

 be 



Term, 1911, when two of the rive proba- 

 tioners selected in that vear bv the India 

 Office entereil on their studies at the 

 Forestry School. During the past year 

 the collection of spei'imens illustrative of 

 timbers, forest Iwtany, ^nd diseavSes of trees 

 has been larcelv increased. The two most 



tionalh' fine series of planks of the oo 

 moner Indian timbers. The provision of 

 a forestry l>uilding containing ]al)oratory, 

 workshop, and museum accommodation for 



and research is regarded as 

 urgent. A site on the Downing Ground 

 has been allotted by the University, and 

 plans for the building have been approved. 

 The building will be begim as soon as 

 £5,500 ifi collected. 



teaching 



is now in hand. 



Of this sum, £4,500 

 Freasurv hns granted 



1 



1 



A very 

 purple. 



CYPRIPEDIUM UEMETEE. 



fine hybrid obtained by crossing Cypripedium G. F. Moore with C. Earl of Tankerville. The colouring is white 

 brown and green, and the flowem have a brightly polished ^appearance. F.C.C., R.H.S., December 17. 



George Holford (grower, Mr. H. Alexander). Westonbirt, Tetbury, Gloucester. 



purple spots, 

 Lieut .-Colonel Sir 



an inch across, very spiny steins, and bright 



red 



Forestry at 



Cambridg^e. — The 



Forestry Committee of the Cambridge Fni- 

 versity report that the course of instruc- 

 tion during the past year by the Reader and 

 Lecturer has been supplemented by excur-^ 

 sions to woods and ])lantations in Cam- 

 bridgeshire and the adjoining counties. 



important collections received each com- 

 prising about 100 specimens of North Ame- 

 rican woods, accurately named, were pre- 

 sented by the Director of the Forest Pro- 

 ducts Laboratory, Madison, AVisconsin. and 

 by Professor Record, of the Yale Univer- 

 sity Forestry School. The University is 

 also indebted to various Conservators of 

 the Indian Forest Service for an exoet)- 



to the Forestry Committee, through the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fishcrii*s, a sum 

 not exceeding £500 per aiinum for inves- 

 tigating the structure of timber. The com- 

 mittee have drawn up a scheme for re- 

 search, and they propose to make a be- 

 ginning with home-grown pine and spruce, 



and later to investigate foreign timbers of 



the same cla^ 



