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Po. SRI DECEMBER, 1913. [No. 252. 
THE R.H.S. HYBRID ORCHID REGISTER. 
From the following letter, which has been issued from the Office of 
the Royal Horticultural Society, Vincent Square, Westminster, it will 
be seen that the proposed Hybrid Orchid Register (see p. 297) has now 
taken definite shape :— 
** November 28th, 1913. 
“The President and Council, acting on the recommendation of a 
Sub-Committee of the Orchid Committee, have decided to establish a 
Register of Hybrid Orchids at Vincent Square. Mr. R. A. Rolfe, of Kew, 
has been appointed Recorder. The Register will include all known Orchids. 
‘“The President and Council accordingly invite Orchid raisers and 
growers, amateur and professional, to bring their Hybrids, when in flower 
for the first time (even though they may not then be sufficiently developed 
to enter for award), and to enter the name and parentage of the plant, 
together with the exhibitor’s name and address, on a Registration Form, 
which can be obtained from the R.H.S.' Office, Vincent Square, S.W- 
This Registration Form should be sent with the plant, and it will be 
placed before the Orchid Committee, who, after satisfying themselves that 
the name is in order, will enter it on the Register. Once so recorded the 
name must be recognised. for all crosses of similar parentage when 
subsequently shown, unless valid reason can be otherwise produced. 
““W. WILKS, Secretary.” 
This Register will thus be of an International character, and, being 
compiled in harmony with the Vienna and Brussels Rules of Nomenclature, 
its value in securing a uniform system of Hybrid Nomenclature will be 
incalculable. It now remains for all Orchidists to co-operate in placing the 
system upon a permanent footing, and we have no doubt that when once 
the necessity of such a standard is recognised they will respond loyally. 
There may be a few difficulties at first, which may be regarded as the 
inevitable legacy of the past, but they will vanish with the determination 
to surmount them. 
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