FEBRUARY, 1913. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 37 
cherish the C. Fairrieanum influence that gives a lighter and more elegant 
bloom. 
I wish to offer my congratulations on the coming of age of the Orchid 
Review and its new dress. I do hope you will sometimes protest against 
the stiffness, and I could almost say vulgarity, of many hybrids, which seem 
to me to gain Certificates for any reason save that of beauty. It is high 
time a protest should be made by someone ! 
Nice. Epwarp H. Woopatt. 
[Mr. Woodall furnishes a very interesting confirmation of what he wrote 
five years ago (O.R., xvii. p. 372), at which time we could not help 
wondering whether his success would be maintained over a series of years. 
Mr. Woodall is an old Orchid grower, and we have not yet forgotten a 
magnificent spike of Vanda coerulea that he once sent to us from 
Scarborough, and the plant which gained a First-class Certificate from the 
R.H.S. over eighteen years ago, which was illustrated in our pages (vol. iii. 
P- 337), and the method of treatment described. We wonder if the plant 
has been tried at Nice.—Ep.] 
MURDER OF A Piant CoLLector.—The Florists’ Exchange publishes a 
report that Dr. C. B. Robinson, a botanist in the Science Section of the 
Department of the Interior, Philippine Islands, has been put to death by 
the natives of Amboyna Island, in the Malay Archipelago. Dr. Robinson, 
who is said to be an Englishman, has done considerable work on the Flora 
of the Philippines, on which he has written several important papers. He 
had previously been connected with the New York Botanical Garden. His 
mission to Amboyna was undertaken with the object of studying the plants 
described by the Dutch botanist, Rumphius, in his Herbarium Amboinense, 
published as long ago as 1750, including a good many Orchids, which Dr. 
Robinson hoped to identify on the spot. 
inp Sioa, 
ORCHID BREEDING.—A curious result has been obtained by Mr. W. C 
Swanborough in the hybrid described on page 58 as Leliocattleya 
Swanboroughii. The ancestry. may be be thus stated: Leliocattleya 
Dominiana (L. purpurata x C. Dowiana) x L.-c. Andromeda (L. flava x 
C. Dowiana). Here we have “two primary hybrids mated together ” 
containing what has been termed a ‘‘ double dose ” of a character which it 
is desired to perpetuate, and it has been predicted that “ the desired result 
should be reached on the average in one seedling out of every sixteen 
raised ” (see O.R., xxi. p. 77). We do not know if Mr. Swanborough was 
working for a yellow Lzliocattleya, but L. flava has yellow segments as 
well as C. Dowiana, so we must hope that the batch contains at least 
sixteen seedlings. There is nothing like testing a theory. 
