THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
woe Ix]. JUNE, Igot. [No. 102. 
DIES ORCHIDIANI. 
FORTUNE continues to smile on the Temple Show, and the fourteenth annual 
gathering has again been a great success. Favoured by fine weather from 
first to last—almost ideal weather for the time of year—the crowds of 
visitors were apparently as great as ever, and the plants were in excellent 
condition. Of course one Temple Show is much like another; the same 
exhibitors, the same old places, and pretty much the same combinations of 
species ; but the conditions under which the show is held, and particularly 
the limited space, do not admit of much variation in the way of arrange- 
ment, though if this tends to greater selection in the way of exhibits it is 
not an unmixed evil. There are two circumstances which help to keep the 
Temple Show popular: it is the great annual reunion, which draws kindred 
spirits together, to compare notes, renew old acquaintances, and make new 
ones; and there is the certainty of finding a good show, with a certain 
number of novelties or varieties. Novelties will always be a source of 
attraction, and the supply is likely to continue, for before the importer had 
slackened his hand the hybridist had taken the matter up, with the result 
that there are thousands of seedlings in existence whose flowering is only a 
question of time, and almost every day serves to strengthen our confidence 
in what the ultimate result of all this activity will be. 
But to return to the present Temple Show. Even all Temple Shows 
are not alike, and on the first hasty look round I soon discovered that there 
was something missing. For the first time, so far as I can remember, there 
was no group from the President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, and what that 
means can easily be imagined by those who ‘have seen the rich and varied 
collections staged in former years. No other collection would have been 
so much missed, for in no other are those interesting botanical rarities se 
