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0. VoL. XXII. SEPTEMBER, 1914. No. 261. 
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INCE our last notes were written a great shadow has fallen. War, 
blind, cruel, and insensate, has broken out among the nations, and 
the peaceful arts have received a set-back, the extent and duration of 
which no one can foresee. We deplore it, for Orchidology is international, 
its votaries are in every land, and our readers are found in every quarter of 
the globe. But regrets are useless, and all we can do is to make some 
attempt to alleviate the miseries which are inseparable from such a titanic 
struggle. The wounded, the sick, and the unemployed will need our 
utmost sympathy and help, and we are confident that Orchidists will not 
behind their fellow citizens in assisting in the good work. We have 
been invited to and have much pleasure in commending the National Relief 
Fund which is being so successfully raised by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
To contribute to so excellent a cause must be accounted an honour and a 
duty. All remittances should be addressed to His Royal Highness, at 
Buckingham Palace. These and other letters to the Fund need not be 
stamped. 
Among the earliest inconveniences of the War was the alteration of 
Postal atrangements and the congestion of traffic, and the two August 
Meetings of the Royal Horticultural Society had to be abandoned, owing 
o the fact that the Hall was required by the War Office. Another effect 
Was the reduction of the staffs of various establishments owing to the 
‘umber of territorials and reservists that have been called to the ranks. In 
“ettain cases the results are more serious. Our French contemporary, the 
Articole, was only able to issue a single sheet of news, including an 
: smnouncement that it must suspend operations for the present, as the 
q pure staffi—editors, correspondents, clerks, and printers—have been called. 
to the front, 
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It is impossible to say how far the Orchid Trade will be affected ; much 
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