We ORC ire Vin Ww, 
Wot. XAG] APRIL, tig12. [No. 232. 
OUR NOTE BOOK. 
WE called attention at page 65 to a remark in the Report of the Council of 
the R.H.S. in which exhibitors and others are recommended to follow the 
Rules of Horticulture adopted by the Brussels Horticultural Congress, and 
we are glad to see the advice carried into practice in the last issue of the 
R.H.S. Journal. At page 249 of the proceedings we find the name of 
Sophrocattlelia used, instead of the clumsy old name Sophro-Lelio-Cattleya.. 
The former name was adopted from our own pages, and we think should 
be written Sophrocatlelia, in accordance with the original spelling (O.R., 
viii. p. 354), and with the list of generic hybrids (O.R., xvi. p. 82) which was 
utilised when the list adopted in the said Rules was drawn up. The slip 
may have occurred through association with Brassocattlelia, but this was 
originally written Brassocatlelia (O.R., vi. p. 46), and both we think should 
be written with a single “‘t”’, in accordance with the original idea, which 
was to compound a short euphonidus name from the names of the parent 
genera, in harmony with the scheme of the late Dr. Maxwell T. Masters 
when compounding the name Philageria. 
We hope that others will now fall into line, but we notice in the reports: 
of the very last meeting of the R.H.S. the names Brasso-Cattleya, Lzlio- 
Cattleya, and Brasso-Lzlio-Cattleya, none of which are in accordance with 
the Rules under discussion, while the last-named isa complete innovation 
from every point of view. It is highly desirable that uniformity of practice 
should be secured, and even if it requires an effort to get used to the new 
rules the attempt should be made. 
The Field of February roth says: ‘‘ We have on more than one occasion 
protested against the absurdly long, discordant names given by fanciers to 
Orchids. Here, for example, is one which has been branded on to a most 
beautiful Cattleya shown by Sir George Holford. It was certainly the most 
admired plant in the Show until its name was sought, and then the 
majority cried shame. Imagine any ordinary flower lover being told that 
the only name this Orchid had was Sophrolzliocattleya Marathon Vesuvius ! 
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