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(OF VoL. XXII. May, 1914. No. 257. . a 
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HE event of the coming month is the Great Spring Show of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, to be held at the Royal Hospital Gardens; 
Chelsea, from May 19th to 21st. The Temple Show was for many years: 
the Mecca to which all faithful Orchidists made their annual pilgrimage, 
and now that the event has been transferred to a more commodious site, 
which formed the venue of the highly successful Royal International 
Horticultural Exhibition two years ago, we anticipate another magnificent 
display of Orchids and a large attendance. The materials seem to become 
increasingly numerous as the years roll along, and we can only hope that 
the fates will again be propitious. We will not anticipate further, and the 
event will be fully dealt with in our next issue. 
But there is an earlier event of the greatest possible interest, and one 
that has been looked forward to for a much longer period, namely, the 
opening of the Reichenbachian Herbarium. It seems hardly credible that 
a quarter of a century has passed away since the death of the illustrious: 
peer whose memory has been clouded by an act of his own which is 
appily unique in scientific annals, namely, the sealing up of his Herbarium 
against his contemporaries and successors for a period of twenty-five years 
after his death. This act was well described by the Gardeners’ Chronicle at 
paralyse the scientific study of 
hat it would render 
- time as an ungenerous attempt to 
eae in this country, and it was clearly foreseen t 
ture work peculiarly laborious and perplexing. 
emoved on May 6th, but this 
The embargo on the Herbaritim will be r 
then be commenced, and we 
ra means that the work of arranging it can 
ma that some time must elapse before the specimens~are available for 
ce. Their present condition, from the very nature of the case, 1S 
etal but we have been assured that when received proper steps 
te taken for their preservation from the ravages of damp and insects, So 
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