162 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (JUNE, 1914 
Speaking of Registration of Hybrids reminds us that.our American — 
-confreres are also paying attention to the subject, and the following notice 
is taken from the pages of our contemporary, Horticulture, for May 16th, — 
1914 (p. 733) -— 
DEPARTMENT OF PLANT REGISTRATION. 
Public notice is hereby given that Mrs. B. B. Tuttle, of Naugatuck, Conn., submits 
for registration the Orchid described below. Any person objecting to the registration 
or to the use of the proposed name is requested to communicate with the Secretary at 
once. Failing to receive objection to the registration the same will be made three 
weeks from this date. 
‘Name—Laelio-Cattleya Tuttlez. : 
Description—Derived by crossing Cattleya Thayeriana with the pollen of Laelia 
Perrinii; habit of growth much like Laelia Perrinii ; leaf and pseudo-bulbs dark green, 
suffused with reddish purple ; flowers intermediate between the two parents; sepals 
and petals light rose; lip nearly entire ; in shape like that of C. Thayeriana, nearly 
white, with the apex of the front lobe deep crimson ; flowers 4$ inches across. 
May 8th, 1914. JoHN YOUNG, Secy. 
Mr. Young is the Secretary of the Society of American Florists and 
‘Ornamental Horticulturists, and the above notice indicates their method of 
tegistering plant names. Should no objection be made within the period 
‘mentioned a second notice will appear, as follows :— 
Public notice is hereby given that as no objection has been filed to the registration 
of the Orchid, Lzlio-Cattleya Tuttle, by Mrs. B. B. Tuttle, of Naugatuck, Conn, 
same becomes complete. Joun YOUNG, Secy: 
May 29th, Igr4. 
We are not familiar with all the details of this system of registration, 
‘but we think that the probationary period, during which objections to @ 
proposed name may be lodged, might be adopted here with advantage, # 
it might tend to check some of the manufacture of unnecessary synonymy: 
Some of this synonymy it seems almost impossible to avoid, especially 
when hybrids from the same cross flower in different collections at about 
the same time. For example, in April of last year we saw in the collection 
of M. Firmin Lambeau seedlings of a very interesting cross betwee? 
Odontoglossum Edwardii and Miltonia vexillaria, and the question was 
raised as to what the flowers would be like. A few days later we saw # 
plant of the same cross in bloom in Messrs. Sander’s Bruges establishmen™ 
and it was agreed to call it Odontonia brugensis, under which name it ye 
fully described (O.R., xxi. p. 180), when it was pointed out that one ns 
had previously flowered. Soon afterwards it appeared at a meeting of t 
R.H.S. under the name O. Eileen, which became the varietal name wht 
the earlier record was pointed out. But now a beautiful coloured plate be 
appeared under the name Qdontonia Guillaume Olyff (Rev. Hort. ie’ 
T914, p- 137), and this plant is said to have been raised in the collectio® © . 
