Sepr.-Oct., 1920.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 135 
Ee THE ORCHID REVIEW 25 YEARS AGO. less 
N order to appreciate the great changes that have taken place in our 
Orchid collections during the last quarter of a century, it is interesting 
to glance back at the Orchid Review in the corresponding period in 1895. 
Brassocattleya, at all events in its modern significance, did not then exist, 
and we find the R.H.S. giving a First-class Certificate to what was termed 
‘Lelia Digbyana.” Other recipients of the award recorded at this period 
were Cattleya Eros, C. Fowleri, and a form of C. Dowiana with sulphur 
white sepals and petals, Lzliocattleya Clonia, Odontoglossum Wattianum, 
Phalznopsis Luedde-violacea, Vanda ceerulea, and a plant exhibited as 
Cypripedium Lord Derby, the*latter under a change of name, however, 
which failed to settle the matter. Nomenclature difficulties were not 
wanting, even then, and we find a spirited discussion on the question. 
Some very interesting Orchids were exhibited, and the record for the 
period includes two plants of Cycnoches chlorochilon, one with male and 
the other with female flowers, and the charming Rhynchostylis coerulea 
with sixteen spikes, which gained a Cultural Commendation. A plant of 
Lzlia monophylla with over forty flowers received an Award of Merit, and 
among others which gained the same distinction were the graceful, white 
Ccelogyne Veitchii, Dendrobium Hookerianum and D. speciosissimum, the 
latter a Bornean species now, we fear, lost to cultivation, Angrecum 
Eichlerianum, Maxillaria fucata, and several Lzliocattleyas. Other exhibits 
included a plant of Catasetum Bungerothii with a spike of twelve flowers, 
Cattleya Rex, Habenaria rhodochila, H. carnea, and its white variety nivosa, 
while Botanical Certificates went to Aéranthes grandiflora, Maxillaria striata, 
M. Hubschii, Polycycnis Lehmannii, and half a dozen others. 
The Orchids figured were Coryanthes macrocorys, Dendrobium atrovio- 
laceum, and Trichopilia suavis, and we find articles on the Vanillas of 
Commerce, Miltonia spectabilis and its varieties, Orchid Culture in Florida, 
by Mr. T. L. Mead, An Orchid Collection in Trinidad, by Mr. T. I. Patter, 
An Amateur’s Notes, and An Ideal Cypripedium List, by E. H. Woodall, 
in which twenty-two kinds are enumerated “ out of how many hundreds?” 
It would be different to-day, though a few of the forms would remain in an 
equally select list. Some eight new hybrids were described, and fifteen 
species are included in a summary of recently-described novelties. Other 
notes include, Cypripedium Harrisianum virescens, a curious green sport, 
_Cycnoches Warscewiczii and C. aureum, an account of two much-confused 
‘species with their sexual forms, Oncidium Gardneri flavescens, Cattleya 
Lueddemanniana, C. Dowiana, and other current topics. The occurrence 
