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an amateur’s house, and a few words concerning these may be found 
acceptable. On no account attempt to cultivate any Odontoglossums 
which have the following for’ one of their parents: QO. Cervantesii, 
hastilabium, Rossii, or Uroskinneri. Cymbidium Devonianum and elegans, 
Cypripedium bellatulum, Charlesworthii, Godefroyz, and niveum are also 
unsuitable for cultivation by amateurs. 
CYMBIDIUMS.— Many of these will now be throwing up their flower 
spikes, and should receive copious supplies of water every day, with an 
occasional dose of weak liquid manure. The following are the best for 
amateurs; C. eburneum, insigne, Lowianum, Tracyanum, tigrinum, and 
Winnianum. 
Next month I hope to describe the method of starting imported Orchids. 
: OBITUARY. 
Gust. H. MuLver-ABEKEN.—It is with great regret that we have to 
announce the death, on February r1gth, after a long illness, of Herr Gustave 
H. Miiller-Abeken, of Lange Voorhout, Den Haag, Holland, in his 48th 
year. The deceased was a keen lover of Orchids, and the possessor of a 
good collection, from which a number of interesting things have been sent 
tous. Among them we recall the interesting Brassocattleya sandhaghensis 
(B. Digbyana x C. Schilleriana), which was figured at page 241 of our 17th 
volume, and C. Abekenie (Rothschildiana x Dowiana Rosita), which was 
described at page 71 of our last issue. His name is commemorated in Cattleya 
Muelleri, a beautiful white hybrid derived from C. intermedia alba and C, 
Peetersiz. He has been a subscriber to the Orchid Review for the last 
twelve years. 
ORCHIDS IN SEASON. 
Four interesting seedlings are sent from the collection of Dr. Hans 
Goldschmidt, Essen-Ruhr, Germany, three of which have been raised by 
himself, Leliocattleya callistoglossa x Lelia cinnabarina has. bright 
yellow sepals and petals, with a tinge of salmon-colour, and a bright rose- 
purple undulate lip, with narrow purple lines on the yellow disc. It is a 
form of L.-c. Lowii (Orchid Stud-Book, p. 108). A seedling from Cattleya 
Leopoldi x Lelia cinnabarina has narrow rosy sepals and petals, and a 
three-lobed rich rose-purple lip with a white base. Dr. Goldschmidt 
remarks that many plants of this cross are flowering, but not one of them 
Show the yellow colour of the Lelia cinnabarina. It is a form of 
L,-c. Diogenes (O.R., ix. p. 37), raised by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., 
from the reverse cross, in which the orange-yellow colour of the Lelia 
parent predominated. Leeliocattleya Fournieri X callistoglossa has white 
sepals and petals, strongly recalling those of Cattleya intermedia, one of 
