os. 
and his charming collection at 
connoisseurs in Belgium deserving of mention, 
cultivated plants 
Jette-St-Pierre, near Brussels, consists of very choice and well- 
of noble Orchids. He described and accounted for his passion two years ago in 
the Fournal des Orchidées with great ability and a contagious enthusiasm which 
could not fail to make converts. Many other first-class seedlings will doubtless 
issue from his collection, the essential conditions for producing them — superior 
varieties, and knowing how to combine them gracefully — being certainly realised 
in his case. Besides, Cypripedium x Pauli is alone sufficient to indicate a memo- 
rable event and to mark out a hybridist. 
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number of varieties which exist. Only the names of the more remarkable and striking 
varieties are retained and preserved. Beyond these forms of the first class, which 
are naturally very rare, many amateurs give their plants distinguishing names, which 
however cannot be regarded as of any value outside any particular collection or 
circumstance. It frequently happens that the same variety receives several names 
simultaneously in different collections, and it also happens that some of these varieties 
cannot be identified with any degree of certainty, as the variations of Cattleya Mossiae 
are infinite. The practice of giving names to various forms ought therefore to cease, 
unless in the case of very choice varieties which have been figured in specially 
illustrated publications. 
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