APRIL, 1911.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 99 
insist on such a rule in the case of hybrids can have little idea of the 
necessities of the case. Hybrid Orchids are so numerous now-a-days that 
scarcely an important meeting is held without one or more putting in an 
appearance—sometimes several—and they are often recorded with the very 
briefest description, sometimes by the mere mention of the name and 
parentage, some even get overlooked altogether. | We cannot possibly take 
this proposal seriously. 
Then we have a remark from a correspondent that he is afraid we shall 
be ina very considerable muddle in the near future. The remark might 
have been made a long time ago, for things had become pretty bad when 
one of the earliest and best of the primary hybrids could be named about 
eighteen times over. For our part we hope that there are signs of 
improvement visible on the horizon. At all events a good many recent 
names have been more in accordance with binomial rules than has some- 
times been the case, and we have noticed a praiseworthy attempt to avoid 
unnecessary duplication. There is, however, one matter which calls for 
serious attention, respecting which we have had some correspondence, but 
we must leave it for the present. 
MANURE FOR ORCHIDS. 
IN answer to the enquiry of your Sydney correspondent, at page 40, about 
manuring Orchids in America, I may say that we grow most of the Cattleyas 
in polypodium fibre, and I started to water the plants that were in pots 
with weak manure water, but found that the sediment rotted the peat and 
stopped up the drainage. I then ceased to water the plants direct, and 
started to damp the house down with the manure water about three or four 
times a week, during the months of August, September, and October, when 
closing the house in the afternoon. Last fall (autumn) I did not do it so 
often, and the plants are looking so well that people who come round and 
see them say that they are the finest lot of Cattleyas in the United States, 
and I must say that during the fifteen years I have been among Orchids I 
have not seen such a fine lot of plants. Many of the C. Mossie and C. 
Gaskelliana have made four breaks from one lead. I also think that it will 
prolong the life of the plants, as I know one gentleman who has done this 
for about six years, and he tells me that the plants-are looking well. 
I do not think this is any remedy for black spot, but I have always found 
it best to keep a good circulation of air round the plants, and then I do not 
think one will have much trouble with black spot. I may say that we use 
more top ventilation in the United States than we did in England. 
Newport, W. E. EGLINGTON. 
Rhode Island, U.S.A. 
