I. 



REVIEW OF THE ACCOMPLISHED AND INFERENCES FOR 

 FUTURE WORK. 



"AFTER ALL" REASON FOR WRITING THIS BOOK HOW 



SHOULD WE CLASSIFY ORCHID HYBRIDS? WHAT I 



DID IN CLASSIFYING WHAT KIND OF NAMES SHOULD 



WE APPLY TO ORCHID HYBRIDS? A WORD TO THE 



ORCHID COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY OF LONDON A WORD TO THE RAISERS OF 



ORCHID HYBRIDS A WORD TO THE PATRONS OF 



ORCHID CULTURE A WORD TO THOSE I AM UNDER 



OBLIGATION TO. 



After All. 



"After all," are the words of the orchid cultivator, 

 when reading the announcement of my list. It has 

 been embarrassing for him to read, hear and be talked 

 to about this, that and the other orchid hybrid, and not 

 as much as an enumeration, not to say classification, 

 was to be had in print of any nation's tongue.* 



"After all," so sighs the raiser of hybrids, the. man 

 who recognizes the value of an artificially raised orchid. 

 He did not know for certain which crosses had been 

 perfected, and without a guide like my list, he could 

 work in the dark only, and even then despair of light 

 coming to him after years of hard and trying work. 



"After all," so exclaims the man acquainted with 

 my intention of compiling this list, for already so long 



* E. Bonhof, Dictionnaire des Orchidees Hybrides, appeared since. 



