January, 1918.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 23 
The collection is subject to modification from time to time, owing to 
additions and casualties, but in 1904, when the second edition of the Hand- 
List of Orchids was published, it was estimated to contain about 1850 
species and well-marked hybrids, belonging to 220 genera. There have 
been many subsequent additions, the latest considerable one being a 
fine lot from the collection of the late Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., presented 
by his widow, Elizabeth Lady Lawrence, in 1914. 
It is impossible to give an adequate idea of such a collection in a short 
notice, but it contains, in addition to the well-known showy kinds, a large 
number of species that are not found in private collections, and a consider- 
able number of what are usually termed ‘‘ botanical Orchids,” owing to 
their less showy character, though they are highly interesting from the 
standpoint of floral structure and the striking mechanical contrivances for 
cross-fertilisation that they exhibit. The number of species in bloom at 
all seasons is considerable. A list of those that flowered in the collection in 
1890 was given in the Kew Bulletin for 1891 (pp. 52-75), and numbers as 
many as 766. 
At the present time there is a good show of bloom, particularly of 
Cypripediums, winter-blooming hybrids being well represented, and the 
clear yellow C. Winnianum particularly attractive. Angraecum sesquipedale 
and several well-grown A. eburneum are also blooming well. A group of 
white and coloured forms of Lelia anceps, with several Cattleyas and 
Leliocattleyas: brighten up the Cattleya house, where some good Cym- 
bidiums are coming into bloom. A number of deciduous Calanthes also 
make a fine display. The botanical rarities must be left for a future note. 
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ORTHINGTON G. SMITH.—The Gardeners’ Chronicle for November 
3rd last contains an Obituary notice of Mr. Worthington G. Smith, 
whose drawings of Orchids and other plants were for so many years a 
feature of that journal, and who was also a distinguished archzologist and 
student of fungi. He passed away at Dunstable on October 27th. The 
notice is accompanied by an excellent portrait, and an illustration from his 
own pencil, showing the artist sketching an Orchid under difficulties which 
we hope he never experienced, and which was doubtless helped by a sense 
of humour, which, it is remarked, showed itself in almost everything he 
touched. His contributions to Orchidology are not estimated, but they must 
have been enormous. As long ago as 1865 he received from the R.H.S.a 
Gold Medal for drawings of plants, and in 1897 he was awarded the V.M.H. 
for distinguished services to horticulture. 
OBITUARY. 
