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lo without making it grande, or any other one without 

 elevating it to princeps, grandiosum, superbissimum, I 

 would fear the effects of stilting on ice with donkey's 

 hoofs. I have it upon authority of an informant, that 

 the description of Cypripedium Youngianum has su- 

 perbiens and Philippinense as seed-bearing parent all in 

 the same breath. Sic Reichenbachia! Catlselia Wellsi- 

 ana, bragged about as (Ctl. superba x Ctl. elegans) [in 

 which case it would be only a re-editon of Ctl. Sedenii] 

 on your Temple show in '93, pops up once more at your 

 R. H. S. meeting, June 12, '94, as (Ctl. Trianse Leeana 

 X LI. purpurata). If reported wrong, it is not followed 

 by any protest. Then exhibits itself Wellsise as (Ctl. 

 labiata X LI. purpurata), as a newborn Lourdes-image of 

 the old bella. If that is not enough for whosoever has 

 eyes to see, take Cattleya Mrs. M. Wells (Prince of 

 Wales X Warneri), exhibited R. H. S. meeting Aug. 14, 

 '94. The firm which can raise this cross when its 

 Prince of Wales saw the light only at the Temple show 

 on the May 29, '91, must yet have a " Co." with the 

 master of necromancy, whose soldered relics are the 

 only memorials for us common lot to gaze upon. But 

 if it does not take enough interest in the children of its 

 raising as to supply them with the required legitimacy, 

 one such stray bastard brands every one of them with 

 the notoriety of unreliability. 



I have to take leave of my readers. You never had a 

 classification of your orchid hybrids spread before you. 

 A list appeared some time back in the French language. 

 But as the author's reputation had already to balance 

 quality of paper and print, the repetition of accumu- 

 lated descriptions was useless, though without afflicting 



