THE 
ORCHID WORLD. 
MARCH. 1913. 
NOTES 
Orchid Catalogue. — The new catalogue 
for 191 3, just issued by Messrs. Hassall and 
Co., Southgate, contains a varied list of the 
most popular species and a comprehensive 
selection of the best hybrids. Some 875 items 
are enumerated. 
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Record Bulbs. — Several readers have 
expressed a doubt regarding the dimensions 
of the large bulbs mentioned on page 1 1 5 of 
the last issue. We have since had the oppor- 
tunity of verifying these figures, and also of 
seeing many other plants with large bulbs 
nearly approaching these m point of size and 
vigour. 
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Dendrobium Cybele album. — A batch 
of seedlings of this hybrid Dendrobium 
between Findlayanum album and nobile 
virginale has been raised in the Scampston 
Hall collection. Last spring a few of the 
strongest plants flowered and proved to be 
albinos. Mr. F. C. Puddle now writes to say 
that the whole batch has flowered and all are 
pure albinos. 
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Dendrobium Phal.-enopsis Schroder- 
lANUM album. — A recent issue of Horti- 
culture, U.S.A., contains an illustration of this 
rare albino flowering in the collection of 
Messrs. Julius Roehrs, Rutherford, N.J., 
U.S.A. The plant is said to be the largest of 
its kind in the world, the four tallest bulbs 
measuring almost three feet in height. It is 
now m its third year of flowering, and has 
increased in size and vigour each season. 
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Royal Horticultural Society's Com- 
mittees. — Messrs. W. Watson and W. 
Jackson Bean, of the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
have been nominated members of the 
Scientific Committee ; and Messrs. Sidney W. 
Flory, Twickenham, and G. Hunter, Blen- 
heim Palace Gardens, members of the Orchid 
Committee. 
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Hooker Memorial. — The Council of the 
Lmnean Society have had under considera- 
tion the application of the bequest of i,\oo 
left to the Society by the late Sir Joseph 
Hooker, and they have agreed that the most 
suitable memorial would be an adequately 
endowed Sir Joseph Hooker Lecture, to be 
delivered every second, third, or fourth year, 
and to be published by the Society. They 
propose that the lecture be on some subject 
especially associated with the name of Sir 
Joseph Hooker, and that the lecturer be 
appointed by the Council, not necessarily 
from among the Fellows of the Society. 
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North of England Horticultural 
Society. — The close of the second year of 
operations shows a paid-up membership of 
just over soo Fellows, and a turn-over of 
^^650. The increase in Fellows is aearly 
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