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Ccelogyne flowered in his collection, which had been received from a friend 
in the Nilghiri Hills, S. India, and which was afterwards described under 
the name of C. Mossiz, after his wife. Of late years he had taken up the 
hybridising of Odontoglossums with considerable success, and an account 
of his collection appeared at pp. 111-117 of our April issue. A group of his 
hybrid seedlings was figured as recently as August last (see page 249). One 
of his most highly prized Orchids was Odontoglossum crispum Mossiz, 
which flowered among imported plants, and which he has used much for 
hybridising with. It is figured at page 113. His first hybrid was Odonto- 
glossum Kenchii (Wilckeanum x Kegeljanii), named after his gardener, 
Mr. Kench, and perhaps the most remarkable was Odontioda Mossize 
(C. Neetzliana X O. maculatum), which received an Award of Merit from 
the R.H.S. in March last, when a similar award was given to a brilliant 
form of Miltonioda Harwoodii raised by him. Mr. Moss has been for some 
time a member of the Orchid Committee of the R.H.S., and his death 
creates a vacancy on that body. He was one of the Jurors at the two last 
Quinquennial meetings at Ghent, and also a Judge at the Horticultural 
Exhibition held at Brussels last year. He was well known as an 
enthusiastic and successful cultivator, and his loss is deplored by fellow 
Orchidists and by a wide circle of friends, with whom he was universally 
popular. The funeral took place on September 15th at Upham—in which 
parish the residence of the deceased gentleman is situated, and of which 
parish he had for some years been rector’s warden—in the presence of a 
large company of friends and neighbours. On the coffin rested a 
magnificent wreath of his favourite Orchids, placed there by his widowr 
and there were many other floral emblems. The flowers used for the grave 
were principally from the gardens of Mrs. Travers and the Hon. Albert 
Hood, the work being carried out with the assistance of Mr. Kench, who 
has been head gardener to Mr. Moss for the last seventeen years. 
ApDoLPHUS Henry Kent, B.A.—After a long and painful illness, and at 
the mature age of 85 years, Mr. A. Hy Kent passed away, on September 
12th, at his residence, Mycene, Doria Road, Feltham. Mr. Kent was for 
Many years private secretary to Mr. (now Sir Harry J.) Veitch, in which 
capacity he was largely responsible for the carrying out of that standard 
work, Vettch’s Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, his unremitting care in its 
preparation being gratefully recognised in the preface. He was also the 
writer of that valuable work, Veitch’s Manual ‘of Conferae, originally 
published in 1881, and of which a second and greatly enlarged edition 
appeared in x900. He was originally educated as a schoolmaster, but 
relinquished the business owing to increasing deafness, when he accepted 
a post with Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, eventually retiring ona pension. 
Mr. Kent had a good knowledge of Botany and the theoretical and practical 
