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July 17, p. 42). At Manchester we learn that “Mr. Statter also showed 
the new Dendrobium Victoria Reginz, with a few flowers upon it, receiving 
an Award of Merit, which is quite as much as it is worth, for when the 
novelty wears off a batch of the common nobile will be as much or more 
prized. The colour of the limbs and the lip is half white and half coerulean 
blue, smallish in size, and not remarknble in substance. It lacks the 
influence of some of the choicer East Indian Dendrobes to place it in the 
front rank. Like all these other side of the world species, with its nodes 
and wiry-like stems, the plant may possess longevity ” (l. c., July 24, p. 58), 
This, we will suppose, marks another stage in the history of the plant. 
The nomenclature question has come to the front rather prominently 
during recent years, and asa good deal of advice has been given upon the 
subject perhaps the following may be added to the collection. In the 
Report of the Manchester Orchid Society’s meeting on July 15th we read 
that among the more prominent of Messrs. Charlesworth’s exhibits was “a 
crossbred between Cypripedium Boxallii and C. cenanthum superbum called 
Ranjitsinhji (this is a little too much, Mr. Charlesworth—keep to Christian 
names) "—-Gard. Chron., July 24, p. 58. The new name may be a little 
too much—indeed I should call the plant a form of C. X rubescens, which 
appeared about four years ago, but surely the writer does not intend his 
advice to be taken seriously. 
I think, however, that long and difficult names should be avoided as far 
as possible, at all events while short and easy ones can be found. There is 
the magnificent Cattleya named in honour of the Polish collector Warscewicz, 
who discovered it, and so many other Orchids, and yet in gardens it 
generally goes under its much latter name of C. gigas, which is probably 
due more to the difficulty of spelling and pronouncing the original name 
than to anything else—and yet it is the correct one, and therefore ought tc 
be used. And this reminds me that Cattleya Mossiz Wageneri is very 
frequently spelt without the first e, which is incorrect, as the plant was 
named after the collector Wagener, who discovered it. This is rathera 
digression, but it seems to me that a better recognition of utility would 
prevent many of our troubles in nomenclature. 
ARGUS. 
ORCHIDS AT THE DELL, EGHAM. 
THE rich collection of Baron Sir Henry Schréder, at The Dell, Egham, 
will repay inspection at any season, for choice and handsome Orchids follow 
each other in succession throughout the year. At the present time Cattleya 
