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refers to has more than doubled since it was made by Mr. Rolfe ; Mouak I 
do not think many of the later comers are very much different from their 
predecessors. It is different with Odontoglossums; their markings lend so 
much variety ; hybridity also lends more; and no two of all the numerous 
forms named could be mistaken for each other were they once seen in bloom 
together, even if their labels were changed, and then again shown to the 
person theoretically blindfold. 
Mr. Rehder’s suggestion could be worked out well toa very successful 
issue, andif it was given a fair trial, on the substantial basis of a guarantee, I 
have no doubt that the Society—or call it what you will—could be worked, 
and would grow to be an Institution of a very important nature in, and 
have great infl ence upon, this most interesting culture. I am afraid there 
are some Societies, or at least one, which could not be ‘‘combined.’”” My 
idea is, not to combine the Societies, but to combine the records, and in that 
way to protect the Societies, and through them the individuals, and thereby 
to aid them so as to be able to tell them what at present they do not know, 
that is all that has been done by others. His ideas as to amplification of 
Certificates have been many times suggested before, and in due time I think 
even the R. H. S. must add some other distinctions to its B.C.; F.C.C.; 
and A.M.—they are not enough. The difficulty of refusing a F.C.C. to the 
best of anything that has appeared oftentimes comes before the R. H. 5S. 
Committee now, and will recur more so in the future. 
If people will only take a little more interest in the matter, it will soon 
become a fact. A few years ago there was not a Manchester Society. It is 
an accomplished fact now. De B. CRAWSHAY. 
The nomenclature of varieties which is again under discussion is a very 
important matter to many of us. With such a popular and variable species 
as Odontoglossum crispum we must have some means of distinguishing the 
different varieties, and the only way is to name them. Each of us can do 
this for his own collection very satisfactorily, but the result will not always 
bear inspection at the Drill Hall or at Manchester. Most of us would be 
glad to avoid making confusion, but the trouble is that no one seems to 
know all the varieties that have been properly named, and so we have to get 
our plants named as best we can. We certainly ought to have a register of 
varieties, and I think the best way to set about this would be for the owners 
of certificated plants to send a flower of each to the Editor, asking him to 
note it, and preserve it for future reference, and he would then soon be able 
to give us some useful comparisons. We want more light on this question, 
and I for one am prepared to support such a scheme, but I do not think a 
special society is required for the work. Lux. 
