62 ORCHID HYBRIDS. 



side-influences. Like Reichenbach, independent, and 

 still under latent regimes, you cannot survey all you 

 own. It sometimes is a question of pounds, nay, 

 guineas, to reject Lord Tom gardener's product, while 

 Uriah Johns should be enthroned with his bastard. 



I further have to apologize for reducing citations and 

 abbreviations. Gardeners' Chronicle is known where 

 gardeners stoke a furnace. If you abbreviate it " Gard. 

 Chron." every child could guess what is meant, un- 

 known as such journal may be to it. But, from begin- 

 ning to end, I address myself only to those at home 

 amongst orchids, acquainted with our standard publica- 

 tions. My citations of Reichenbachia plates are incom- 

 plete throughout in so far as I had to copy whatever 

 pictures I found recorded in other publications. Even 

 they, favored with inspection of such plates, cannot 

 possibly keep track of Sander's tricks and traces. I am 

 satisfied he forgot himself at what volume he arrived, 

 and worries whether it would pay to sandwich Queen 

 Lil with his next number. I have consulted books which 

 my poor purse could purchase; do not blame me for 

 having accomplished but what was possible; my, our 

 poorness is others' fault. Look at my writing in a 

 friendly spirit, and you will readily understand what 

 "G. Ch." "0. R." "RHS." means. If not, if a dif- 

 ferent spirit rules your mind, think that a day may 

 come for you or your children when you have to raise 

 chickens for eggs, peddle flowers in the street, haul 

 manure for a living, and with all that, not only think 

 about publishing books like mine, but accomplish it 

 too, when bordering on the satanic proposition: tails, 

 no gain; heads, no go. 



