tate ORCHID: REVIEW. 
SAL ITN EIA AS REA 
Vor. XXI.| JANUARY, 1913. [No. 241. 
THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
WIrH the last issue the Orchid Review completed its twentieth volume, 
and we have to thank numerous friends and readers for kindly congratulations 
and appreciation of the work, with good wishes for the future. Twenty 
years is a long period in the history of Orchidology, but the events that 
have marked its progress have been recorded as fully and faithfully as space 
and circumstances permitted, and the existence of a wide circle of readers, 
both at home and abroad, including a good number from the commencement, 
affords evidence that the work has been appreciated. In this connection it 
may be interesting to repeat the original announcement :— 
““OQuR PROGRAMME, 
‘* The Orchid Review has been established to supply a want which we 
believe has long been felt among amateurs of Orchids, namely a journal 
devoted to their special interests. 
** The cultivation of Orchids has become a most important, and to some 
extent also, a special branch of modern horticulture. The number of people 
and the amount of capital employed directly or indirectly in it is very large, 
Already the subject has a literature of its own, though too scattered to be 
readily accessible, and anything tending to concentrate it would confer a 
real boon upon those interested in the subject. 
“In this belief we have decided to establish a monthly repertorium of 
information on every important branch of Orchidology, and to present it to 
the reader in a form suitable both for present use and future reference. We 
believe there is room for such a publication, without unduly interfering with 
the scope of the existing horticultural press, and we look with confidence 
for such support as shall enable us to prosecute our labours with success. 
‘The following are among the subjects to which our attention will be 
specially devoted :— 
‘‘ Descriptions of new species of Orchids, with which our collections are 
constantly being enriched, will be an important feature of the Review, and 
some of the more striking of these will be figured, as circumstances permit. 
‘‘ Hybrid Orchids will receive due attention. The importance of recording 
the origin and parentage of the members of this ever-increasing group will 
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