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impossible for their Members to bear in mind the details of numerous flowers 
often seen but once.” 
This is interesting, and I rather expected something of the kind. How 
will it work out in practice? At the very first meeting of the year an 
Award of Merit was given to Cypripedium X Lilian Greenwood, a hybrid 
from C. bellatulum ¢ and C. barbatum Warneri ¢. Of course it will be 
painted, and then I believe the Committee will really ‘‘ bear in mind the 
details ” of this hybrid between C. barbatum and C. bellatulum, for it has 
been before them more than “ once.’ Here is the record :— 
C. X Charles Richman. May 9th, 1893. Award of Merit. 
C. X Leysenianum. June 26th, 1894. First-class Certificate. 
C. X Charles Richman. Sept. 11th, _,, o “ 
C. X Francois Peeters. Oct. 15th, 1895. No award. 
C. X Marchioness of Salisbury. Nov. 12th, ,, First-class Certificate. 
C. X barbato-bellatulum. Mar. toth, 1896. No award. 
C. X Lilian Greenwood. Jan. 12th, 1897. Award of Merit. 
This, I suppose, is termed a “‘ tendency” to multiply unduly the awards. 
How many more names does the Committee intend to recognise for this 
hybrid ? On the third occasion enumerated above they changed the name 
from C. X Météore to C. X Charles Richman before granting the award 
named. Why did they not adopt the same course on other occasions ? 
Look at. Mr. Chamberlain’s remarks about Masdevallia x Chamberlainiana 
and Shuttryana (Orch. Rev., IV., p. 133), and then at the above list, and 
let me know the result, but pray-don’t use strong language. Read also the 
tules for the nomenclature of Orchids prefixed by the Society to its official 
list of awards, and compare the above with the way hybrids between C. 
insigne and Spicerianum are named. The other day I stumbled across the 
following :—‘‘ Vernacular names. —- We have a suspicion that common 
names made all that great trouble at the tower of Babel.” —Gardeners, 
Monthly (Gard. Chron., 1876, VI., p. 811). The above is a good illustration. 
Last month I alluded to Messrs. Sander’s very interesting hybrid 
Calanthe x albata (p. 6). In the Gardeners’ Chronicle for January 9th (P. 16) 
I read :—*« Of other hybrids remarkable are Calanthe Novelty (veratrifolia 
X Cooksoni), the first break between the evergreen and the deciduous 
Species.” Where did that name come from? On November 14th they 
alluded to it (p. 602) as “the singular Calanthe X albata (veratrifolia x 
Cooksoni x), a curious break between the evergreen and the mses 
Calanthes, with white flowers intermediate between the parents. It was 
certainly exhibited and recorded under the latter name, and I aren the 
change may be attributed to that craze for the vernacular of which we have 
