80 THE ORCHID REVIEW. | APRIL, 1917. 
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HARLES WINN.—The death is announced, on March Ist, on the 
eve of his eighty-eighth birthday, of Mr. Charles Winn, The Uplands, 
Selley Hill, Birmingham, a prominent Orchidist during the latter part of 
the nineteenth century. Early readers of the Orchid Review will remember 
the account of the Selly Hill collection, which appeared at pp. 261-264 0 
our second volume, and also the sale of the collection some two years later 
through Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. (O.R., iv. pp. 256, 290). Mr. Winn 
‘was for many years a very enthusiastic Orchidist. As long ago as 1881 
Fig. 11. CyMBipium WINNIANUM. 
(Raised by the late Mr. C. Winn.) 
Reichenbach dedicated to him Masdevallia Winniana, which flowered in 
his collection, and five years later, when dedicating to him Cypripedium 
Winnianum, a hybrid raised by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons from C. 
villosam X Druryi, he alluded to Mr. Winn as “ one of my very assiduous 
correspondents, who is so very famous for his splendid Masdevallias, among 
which the little-known gorgeous port-wine coloured M. Roezlii has often 
flowered.”’ 
Mr. Winn had a quite representative collection, containing several 
