74 THE ORCHID REVIEW. {MaRCH, 1913. 
handkerchiefs, the latter showing that they did not escape scot free from 
the encounter. The weather favoured the raid, being very rough, with 
heavy rain. Fortunately, there was no frost, and mats were at once 
requisitioned and the glass quickly replaced, so that the damage under this 
head was not serious. A fine collection of Orchids just presented by Sir 
George Holford was in the new Cattleya house and thus escaped, with the 
exception of a few Cypripediums that were in bloom in the Show houses, of 
which a few leaves and flowers suffered. 
It is suspected that the marauders obtained access through the adjoining 
Mid-Surrey Golf Grounds in the Old Deer Park; at all events a week 
later the putting greensthere were badly damaged. In the early morning of 
February 2oth the Tea Kiosk near the Temperate house was discovered to 
be in flames by the night stoker, who, by the light of the illumination, saw 
two women hurrying away. He blew a policeman’s whistle, and constables 
took up the chase and arrested two women when hurrying across the golf 
grounds. Two fire brigades were quickly on the scene, but too late to save the 
building, which was practically reduced to a heap of ashes. The damage 
is estimated at about £1000. Whether there is any connection between 
these outrages or not remains to be seen. At the subsequent police-court 
proceedings the women were remanded for a week, bail being refused, in 
consequence of which it is reported that a book and some papers were flung 
at the chairman of the bench of magistrates. 
We have just had a correspondence respecting the number of unflowered 
seedlings that are being sold without record of parentage, or with records 
that seem incredible or impossible when the seedlings flower. A 
correspondent has been particularly unfortunate in this respect, but it is 
difficult to suggest a remedy. Another phase of the same difficulty has just 
confronted us. Flowers of a number of seedling Odontoglossums that were 
obtained at a Sale were submitted for determination, with the Sale numbers. 
We suggested that the Sale Catalogue might contain the missing records, 
but this proved not to be the case. At these Sales a few numbers are reserved 
for plants in flower that may be brought in on the morning of the Sale, and 
in the case of seedlings flowering for the first time they are sometimes sold 
without any record. In the absence of information one can only trace the 
characters of the parent species, and suggest names that are plausibly correct, 
but in the case of secondary hybrids the method is not conclusive, as has 
been frequently pointed out, and most recently at page 8, where eleven very 
diverse forms of Odontoglossum percultum from the same capsule are 
figured. 
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