10 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (January, 1918, 
One cannot give to the Orchid Review the credit that is due for its 
pioneer work in purely Orchid journalism without also saying how 
enormously this is due to its Editor, Mr. R. A. Rolfe, whose gallant 
attempt to regain the lost prestige of British Orchidology, should secure 
our hearty gratitude and support. It must have entailed much strenuous 
work in what should have been the leisure time of a busy life, but which, 
instead, he has preferred to devote to the further development of 
Orchidology. It will certainly be assessed at it full value by posterity. 
One can only conclude by wishing to the Review and its Editor such 
success as they have undoubtedly deserved, and a happy emergence from 
the difficulties of these troublous times. ORCHIDOPHILE. 
**34, REDCLIFFE GARDENS, 
SouTH KENSINGTON, S.W. Io. 
‘DEAR Mr. RoLFe,—Accept my sincere congratulations on the 
completion of the twenty-fifth volume of the Orchid Review, a publication 
which must become more and more valuable as time goes on. 
‘While it has no doubt given you much hard work, it has, I know, at 
the same time been a real labour of love with you, and you will always 
have the satisfaction of feeling that the publication occupies a very 
important position in Botanical and Horticultural Libraries. With best 
wishes for its continued success, I am, yours faithfully, 
** HARRY J. VEITCH.” 
We have to thank the Editors of the Gardeners’ Chronicle and the Garden 
for complimentary notices of the Orchid Review and its twenty-five years’ 
work. The former remarks :— 
Mr. R. A. ROLFE AND THE ‘‘ ORCHID REVIEW.”—The receipt of the 
issue of the Orchid Review for November-December, 1917, reminds us that 
it completes the 25th volume of this useful periodical. Some of our older 
readers will remember the circumstances which prevailed at the time of its 
promotion.” After briefly recounting these, it proceeds: “For a period 
there was some doubt as to who would take up the work, . . . but 
eventually, by the devotion of Mr. R. A. Rolfe to the study of Orchids at 
Kew, and later by the establishment of the Orchid Review, all was done 
that was possible to help forward the cultivation of Orchids in this country, 
and to maintain the interest of those engaged in raising new hybrids. It is 
only those most intimately associated with the Editor and the plants 
treated upon in his journal, who know the difficulties he had to overcome 
for some years. Indeed throughout the whole period the task of keeping 
the Review up to the high level it has attained has been considerable. At the 
present time, when the mind and energies of this nation are mainly directed 
