4 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [JANuARY, 1916, 
which it would take too long to summarise. Among promising albino’ 
Cattleyas, however, we may mention C. Williamsiz alba (Gaskelliana alba 
x Harrisoniana alba), C. Snow-Queen (Gaskelliana alba X Suzanneé-Hye), 
and C. Evelyn-Sander (Trianz alba X Dusseldorfii Undine). A good many 
others have flowered but have not been exhibited, and any falling off in 
numbers may be attributed to the abnormal conditions of the year. In 
this department of Orchidology the effects of the war are more likely to’be 
felt later on, owing to the great activity of recent years and the time that 
Orchid eee take to reach the flowering stage. 
LOssES DURING THE YEAR. 
Several distinguished Orchidists have passed away the during the year, 
including Lord Rothschild; M. Jules Hye de Crom, whose death may be 
regarded as one of the tragedies of the war; Mr. J. C. Harvey, whose 
account of Orchid culture in South Mexico was the feature of our January 
issue (pp. 12-18), but which, sad to say, he did not live to see in print; Dr. 
O. N. Witt, M. Louis Forget, one of the most successful Orchid collectors 
of the day, whose portrait was given in our September issue, together with 
Cattleya Victoria-Regina, one of his most interesting discoveries; Mr. 
George Hunter, a member of the R.H.S. Orchid Committee ; Mr. F. W. 
Ashton, a prominent member of the Orchid trade; the distinguished 
botanists Mr. F. M. Bailey and Dr. J. Medley Wood, whose connection 
with the Orchids of their respective colonies has been recorded in our 
pages; Mr. F. W. Harvey, Editor of The Garden; Edwin Lonsdale, an 
American horticulturist whose connection with Orchidology is the subject of 
a note on the following page; and while this article is being written we 
regret to hear of the death of Mr. H. Whateley, of whom an Obituary notice 
is given at page 18. We also regret to see in the list of our French allies 
who have fallen in the war the name of a son of M. Belin, President of 
the Sociétié Nationale d’Horticulture de France. 
THE FUTURE 
is in the lap of the gods. Many of our younger Orchidists are away 
fighting in the cause of freedom, and those who remain are making a. 
brave attempt to carry on under existing difficulties, keeping a warm place 
in their hearts for absent friends, and fully assured of a return to prosperity 
when the present tragedy is over. And the claims to sympathy and help of 
the ruined horticulturists in the devastated countries of our allies are not. 
being overlooked, for a War Relief Fund has been inaugurated, headed by 
a donation of His Majesty the King, and widely supported, which will be 
available when the proper time comes, and that it will come we have the 
utmost confidence, when all must unite to secure the blessings of an 
enduring peace, under which alone horticulture and the peaceful arts can 
attain their full development. 
