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Messrs. Veitch have set a shining example when 

 naming their select lot of seedlings after objects of 

 fiction and mythology. Latin has been the language of 

 science and is to remain such. Those hybrids which 

 received names after the fashion of scientists, well and 

 good, they have to stand. But let us avoid such expres- 

 sions further on. 



When acknowledging established varieties, be guided 

 to some extent by certain authorities, say Veitch's 

 Manual, though I myself have preferred to disagree with 

 several of them as I mention further on. Do not attach 

 immense importance to such trifling distinctions as 

 some of your long-way's-down species exhibit. You 

 name them by the big noses and drawn-out-of-shape 

 faces which they please to exhibit, and because they are 

 different in such ugly characters, do not persuade your- 

 self to believe that they are pretty and worth preserving. 



About joined names, 1 have had occasion to speak 

 before. 



Do not reuse names already established as synonyms. 

 Once synonym, always synonym, is a rule accepted by 

 so many that it is rejectable to invite its application. 

 Still, do not try and rename those you encounter. Life 

 is short at best, and our fraction of gray matter too 

 much employed already now to call for further engage- 

 ment. Avoid cases like Cpd. Simonii and Siemonii. 



But, above all, do not forget your x sign to mark the 

 plant in question as hybrid. The Orchid Review has 

 applied it before the species name throughout. Much 

 as I like to follow that journal's example, I set it after 

 the word. Reichenbach, deceased, I understand, pro- 

 posed two and three, to mark secondary, etc. Lucky for 

 him to depart life ere he would be obliged to employ as 

 many as twenty. By the time our mule-breeders got 



