THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
VoL: XXI.] aber 3 MARCH, 1913. (No. 243. 
OUR NOTE BOOK. 
‘“ AN, ATROCITY.—-The daily papers give accounts of the destruction of 
many valuable Orchids at the Royal Gardens, Kew, England, by the 
militant suffragettes.. It is very difficult to convince one’s self that members 
of the fair sex, of good breeding and refined associations, could ever be 
guilty of such an atrocious act of savagery. 
‘O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee to temper man; we 
had been brutes without.’ 
Thus sang the poet over two hundred years ago. Is it possible that the 
time is coming when the sentiment will have to be reversed? We are 
sorry for Kew, for, in a way, its loss is the loss of the entire horticultural 
world. We are sorry for the misguided marauders who imagine they can 
help their cause by venting their fury upon the flowers!” 
The above is from the issue of Horticulture for February 15th, which 
has just reached us, and we cannot improve upon it. The outrage was 
committed during the early hours of February 8th, and was discovered by 
the night stoker about four a.m., and he at once called the policeman who 
was on night duty, who summoned the foreman and the Curator. A lot of 
glass had been smashed, and the plants thrown about in all directions, and 
some of them broken to pieces, or the leaves and a large number of spikes 
torn off. The latter would be more easily seen in the dark. A few plants were 
practically ruined, and many badly damaged, these including Odonto- 
glossums, Phalzenopsis, Dendrobiums, Cymbidiums, Ccelogynes, Lycastes, 
Cattleyas, Cypripediums, and Epidendrum Wallisii. The Ancectochili—a 
good collection—were broken into fragments, perhaps considered specially 
valuable because placed under bell glasses. It was estimated that 136 
piants suffered in various ways. The damage is estimated at about £150, 
including some £4 worth of glass. The marauders obtained entrance by 
smashing a pane in the door of the insectivorous house and climbing 
through, whence they passed into the main range of Orchid houses. They 
ultimately got clean away, leaving a card—on which was written *‘ Votes 
for Women”’—a bag containing some iron bolts, and two blood-stained 
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