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reported at page 73, and we believe that nothing has been discovered about 
the offenders. The following, however, appears in the report of a speech 
by Mrs. Pankhurst, the ‘‘ militant’ leader, at the London Pavilion, on 
February 10th: ‘‘ There were people who said it was wrong to destroy in a 
single night choice flowers which had taken years to reach that pitch of 
perfection, but how many lives were sacrificed in collecting the plants from 
the swamps where they grew, and what a useless sacrifice that was as 
compared with the great benefits which they hoped would come out of the 
destruction of these Orchids at Kew? Was it not necessary for women to 
do these things in order to call attention to the horrors that people had to 
suffer in the production of these beautiful flowers?” We believe the 
remarks of the producers of the destroyed Orchids were much more 
appropriate to the occasion. 
And there is another significant reference to the matter. The militant 
leader has been arrested and committed for trial on a charge of having 
feloniously counselled and procured certain persons, whose names are 
unknown, to commit another outrage, and among the evidence produced 
before the magistrates we find it reported that in a speech made at the 
London Pavilion the accused spoke of the destroying of Orchid houses, 
window-breaking, and cutting telegraph wires, and referred to herself as the 
head and front of the movement, and as having, in many cases, incited 
people to do these acts. 
SowING ODONTIODA SEEDS.—With respect to the note on page 56, Mr. 
R. Brooman White, Arddarroch, kindly advises our correspondent to sow 
some of his Odontioda seeds on the compost of young seedling Odonto- 
glossums. He finds nothing so successful, as the conditions suitable for 
the latter are equally so for the Odontiodas. This, we believe, includes a 
little extra warmth as compared with the established plants. The 
experience of Mr. J. S. Moss (see page 115) is also interesting in this 
connection. 
GIFT OF ORCHIDS TO KEw.—We learn that Sir George Holford, on 
being informed that a new Cattleya house had been built at Kew, generously 
presented to the gardens a large number of species and hybrids from his 
collection at Westonbirt. Included in the gift were many specimen plants 
of Brassocattleyas, Leliocattleyas, and other hybrids, also a number 
of hybrid Cypripediums and Cymbidiums. It will give some idea of the 
value of the gift if we repeat what we were told by Mr. F. Sander, who had 
seen the plants selected for Kew before they left Westonbirt. Questioned 
as to their value, he stated that, if the plants had been purchased in the 
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