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of paintings of Certificated Orchids, and I noticed with pleasure that the 
whole collection was exhibited at the Drill Hall Meeting on July 31st, and 
that the Society had made the award of a Gold Medal to the artist, Miss 
Roberts. It was a graceful and appropriate recognition of a piece of excel- 
lent work, which I hope the Society will see their way to continue, for 
it is a most useful way of preserving records of the series of novelties which 
appear at the different meetings, and which is likely to increase rather than 
diminish now’that so many people are engaged in the work of hybridisation. 
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PHAIUS TUBERCULOSUS. 
Mr. Norman C. Cookson, the raiser of Phaius X oakwoodiensis (described 
at page 227) writes :—‘‘ With regard to your remark as to crossing Phaius 
X Cooksoni again with P. tuberculosus, I have tried this annually for 
many years, both ways, but so far without success, though we have had 
many seed pods containing seed, which, under the microscope, looked 
good.” We are glad to hear that the experiment has been tried, and wish it 
had been successful, as, indeed, it may be some of these days. It would be 
interesting to know how Mr. Cookson grows P. tuberculosus, so as to have 
flowers annually. Many people complain that they cannot grow it at all, 
and some that have flowered imported plants once have subsequently lost 
them. We must either find out how to grow it, or how to improve its 
constitution, for it is too beautiful a plant to be lost sight of. 
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SALE OF ORCHID BOOKS. 
THE valuable library of botanical books brought together by the late J. T. 
Barber, Esq., Aston-on-Clun, was recently sold by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkin- 
son and Hodge. Some of the most important illustrated works, which are 
either devoted to Orchids or include Orchids in their contents, were :— 
Curtis’s “ Botanical Magazine,” from the commencement in 1787 to 1879, 
complete set, {91 ; Edward’s “ Botanical Register,” 1815-47, complete set, 
£44; James Sowerby’s “ English Botany,” 1790-1849, in forty volumes, 
£36; H. Andrews’ “ Botanist’s Repository,”’ 1797-1815, ten volumes, 
£10 ss. ; €: Loddiges’ ‘“* Botanical Cabinet,” 1817-33, twenty volumes, £38 ; 
Reichenbach’s “Icones Flore Germanic et Helveticz,” 1834-62, twenty 
volumes, £40; J. Bateman’s “ Orchidacez of Mexico and Guatemala, 1843, 
£11; and F. Sander’s “ Reichenbachia,” 1888-98, £29. 
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