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SEPTEMBER, 1913.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 267 
‘Have you ever seen this plant before?’ B.: ‘I don’t think I have; 
it appears to be something new.’ A.: ‘I know it is new, as it 
comes from a place where no collector has ever been. No one here knows 
Be 8. * How did it get the name it bears?’ A.: ‘Oh, I named it, as 
the Society will not look at a plant that is unnamed.’ B.: ‘ Have you tried 
Kew?’ A.: ‘It is no use sending plants there, as they give them any kind 
of name; they won’t bother.’ B.: ‘But they will. The collections of 
living and dried plants are maintained to enable them to identify plants, 
and I know they do a lot of it.’ A.: ‘I wouldn’t ask them. I would 
rather name my plants myself.’ B.: ‘Then you would most likely make a 
mistake. It doesn’t follow because a plant is not known to cultivators that 
it has not already been named by someone competent to doit.’ A.: ‘ Surely 
when I introduce a new plant I have the right to name it?’ B.: ‘ But you 
must first find out if it is new and nameless.’ A.: ‘ Well, I know this is 
new.’ B. took particulars of the plant, went to Kew and found that it was 
well known there, a figure of it having been published in the Botanical 
Magazine a few years ago.—Eavesdropper.” 
Now we were a little curious to know what this plant might be, and a 
judicious inquiry served to reveal its identity. On looking the matter up 
we find that B. might have scored another point, for not only was a new 
name unnecessary, but the one chosen consisted of three words, a practice 
which is contrary to the rules. The matter may be read in connection with 
a note at page 235. Happily the plant is not an Orchid, so we will 
conclude by saying—Horticultural Papers please copy. 
ORCHIDS AT BRUSSELS. 
MM. A. A. PEETERS & FILs.’ ESTABLISHMENT. 
SINCE our previous visit to Brussels, five years ago, the establishment of 
MM. A. A. Peeters & Fils. has been moved from St. Gilles to Laeken, where 
a fine block of twenty-seven new houses has been erected on the latest 
Principles, and these we have now had the pleasure of seeing. 
We first inspected a fine series of Miltonia vexillaria hybrids, obtained 
from several fine varieties crossed with the handsome M. v. memoria G. D. 
Owen. There were some 500 plants, mostly in flower or spike, and showing 
much variation in colour, but without reproducing the remarkable crimson 
mask of the pollen parent. Some of them had an orange brown disc to the 
lip, while others resembled the typical form. Examples of M. Bleuana 
(vexillaria x Roezlii) were in bloom, but M. Peeters has also seedlings 
derived from the reverse cross, M. Roezlii being the seed parent, and these 
are not such strong growers, having more of the Roezlii character. These 
are known as M. Bleuana var. Peetersiana. M. Bleuana X M. vexillaria 
