98 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Mr. Crawshay alludes to a wish for a list of Odontoglossum crispum 
varieties, and asks, ‘‘Has any complete list. ever been compiled that any 
grower could purchase, so that he might consult it to see if his newly- 
bloomed prodigy is like any of its predecessors ?”’ But there happens to be 
such a list of Cattleya Triane varieties (Orch. Rev. iii., pp. 114-119), and 
will Mr, Crawshay tell us how many ‘‘new” varieties have since been 
recorded, and how they differ from pre-existing ones? Whether a list of 
O. crispum varieties would be more effective in preventing confusion is 
problematical, but in any case I thought Mr. Crawshay himself was to give 
us such a list. Perhaps it grows faster than he can keep pace with. 
Does not every meeting add to the number? And then of course one has 
to point out how they all differ from their predecessors, which naturally 
takes time, and might even tax the powers of a Central Institution. 
By the way, it never seems to occur to anybody to stop making new 
varieties until we have found out what the old ones are like. I commend 
the point to the makers of new varieties, for a little research among the 
literature of existing varieties might throw a quite unexpected light. upon 
the question. 
Last month I had occasion to mention the “natural hybrid’’ Phaius. 
Now I see a statement at page 72 that Phaius tuberculosus is not a natural 
hybrid at all. I-suppose our hybridists will now get to work and give us 
their views on the matter. It is just as well that the question should be _ 
settled once for all. 
It is rather interesting to find that we have an aquatic Orchid: (see 
page 80), and it would be a very interesting addition to a collection of 
Botanical Orchids if someone could succeed in introducirg it. No doubt it 
would succeed in a warm tank, and would be something of a novelty at all 
events. 
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Speaking of Botanical Orchids reminds me of Mr. White’s paper on 
“‘Inconspicuous and rarely-cultivated Orchids,” which was read for the 
author by Sir Trevor Lawrence at the last meeting of the R.H.S. Mr. 
White is well qualified to deal with the question, for in the collection under 
his care such plants receive special attention. No one has done more to 
popularise this somewhat neglected class than Sir Trevor Lawrence, whose 
exhibits at the Temple Show, and the various meetings at the Drill Hall, 
. invariably attract a great deal of attention, and on the present occasion the 
subject was illustrated by a series of over twenty most interesting little 
plants, many of which are cae ate rare in private art sees 
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