FEBRUARY, 1915+] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 47 
amateurs in Belgium, and an excellent cultivator who knew his Orchids as 
a shepherd knows his sheep. Cypripediums were then his chief favourites, 
but he was beginning to pay attention to Cattleyas and Odontoglossums. 
In 1893 he won the Gold Medal offered by His Majesty the King of the 
Belgians for the best 100 exotic Orchids. A year later a hybrid flowered in 
his collection which was to become famous, namely Cypripedium aureum, 
which he had raised from C. Sallieri Hyeanum xX Spicerianum. It was 
named C. aureum, in allusion to its beautiful yellow colour, but soon after- 
wards all manner of variations began to appear among the seedlings, and a 
year later no fewer than eleven were exhibited together under as many 
different names, causing our appeal that all should be considered as varieties 
of the original: This view was ultimately adopted, though in the meantime 
the number of different names had grown to forty. Accounts of M. Hye’s 
collection have appeared in our pages (O.R., vi. pp. 206-207; xi. pp. 194- 
196), but since we had the pleasure of seeing it we believe that the houses 
have been moved and considerably extended. In 1913 M. Hye again showed 
at the Ghent Quinquennial, and a group of Miltonias and other Orchids 
showed by him was one of the features of the Show. He also won the 
Gold Medal for the best twelve Odontoglossums raised from seed. M. Hye 
has often appeared as an exhibitor at the London Shows, and it will be 
remembered that the mysterious loss of several choice Orchids shown by 
him was the sensation of the Temple Show in 1898. His death is a great 
loss to Orchidology. His name is commemorated in Leliocattleya Hyeana, 
Odontoglossum crispum Hyeanm, and others. Our first intimation of the 
sad event was a telegram from a mutual friend, but we have since learnt 
that the death of the eminent Ghent Orchidist was due to heart failure 
brought on by business worry—he was a wine merchant—caused by the 
German occupation. 
James Cray Harvey.—We greatly regret to announce the death, on 
December 11th last, of Mr. J. C. Harvey, of Orizaba, Mexico, the writer of 
the article “ Orchids in South Mexico” which appeared at pp. 12-18 of our 
January issue. The card announcing his death, at the age of 64 years, 
came to us as a shock, for on December 3rd he had written in his usual 
cheery style, and referred to the pleasant evening he spent with us on his 
last visit to England on the occasion of the Royal International Horti- 
cultural Exhibition less than three years ago. Until then we had only 
known him by correspondence, from which we learnt that he had a very 
large collection of tropical plants, including a great variety of Orchids, all 
grown under natural conditions. He was very fond of Orchids, and 
remarked that a good many years ago he cultivated quite a good selection 
of the showiest and most interesting kinds in California—of course under 
glass. But in South Mexico it was a great pleasure to attach them to the 
