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others to assess. The following, however, appeared in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle on the completion of the tenth volume :— 
After alluding to the work achieved, it proceeded: ‘‘ Many lovers of 
these plants will remember the consternation caused by the death of 
Professor Reichenbach, who took up Lindley’s work. . . . Many, too, 
will remember the disgust universally felt at the Professor’s testamentary 
dispositions. For a time it was feared that the progress of Orchid know- 
ledge would be seriously affected by the locking up for twenty-five years of 
the specimens and materials amassed by the Professor. But somehow, as 
in the case of the Ingoldsby legends, no one appears to be one penny the 
worse for the strange’ dispositions of the Hamburg Professor. One 
reason for this fortunate state of things may fairly be attributed to the 
Orchid Review. Month after month Orchidists have had placed before 
them the newest and most trustworthy information concerning Orchids. 
Difficult and entangled questions relating to nomenclature and synonymy 
have received attention. The raising of hybrids has also been carried on to 
an extraordinary extent, and but for the Review, the confusion, great as it 
is, would have been much greater. The specialisation and division of 
labour, which is so marked a feature of the times, necessarily bring with 
them the need for a special journal. Specialisation in botany is, however; 
as in everything else, only advantageous when it has been obtained before- 
hand. It is needless to say that this requisite has been fully attained in 
the Orchid Review, which has thus secured the confidence of Orchid 
growers, and will, we trust, long retain it.” 
And, now? For a period, not of ten, but of twenty-five years, the 
Review has striven to uphold the honour of British Orchidology, and in the 
end it is threatened with extinction. The cost of printing, paper, and of 
everything that goes to the production of such a journal, has nearly 
doubled, and is still soaring, while other connected circumstances have 
limited the circulation. And there are paper and other restrictions that 
have to be observed. For example, the Review can only be sent to America, 
and neutral countries, under a permit, and all packages have to be accom- 
panied by a certificate giving the name and address of every person to 
whom a copy is sent. Many journals have collapsed; the Review has been 
saved by an abiding faith in the future, but we cannot longer bear the 
burden alone. We know that the work is widely appreciated ; of that “ 
have been assured over and over again, and it circulates wherever Orchids 
are grown. A little help is needed to assure its future. : 
The work was established to overcome a difficulty for which no other 
remedy could be found, and a quarter of a century isa long period. It has 
Stimulated and supported an industry from which hundreds of people 
derive pleasure and profit, and one that cannot be laid aside in a moment 
