diab ~ORGHID -REVIEW, 
VOL. AX] NOVEMBER, IgI2. [No. 239. 
OUR NOTE BOOK. 
Last month, in connection with a suggestion by ‘‘ Progressive,’ we 
referred to the constant stream of novelties that appear at the R.H.S. 
meetings. Since then no fewer than five First-class Certificates and ten 
Awards of Merit have been given by the Orchid Committee, and these, with 
a single exception, to plants of hybrid origin. We need not enumerate 
them, as full details appear in the report. of the meetings, but it would 
appear that our hybridists have been “amusing their spare moments” to 
considerable purpose. 
One of the recipients of a First-class Certificate gave some trouble 
with respect to its nomenclature. It was a hybrid between Cattleya Fabia 
alba and C. Warscewiczii var. Frau Melanie Beyrodt, and was exhibited 
under thé name. of C. Harrisiana. .This was ~consideréd as beitlg“toé “ 
similar to existing names, and the Award was made subject to a suitable 
name being given by the exhibitor. “The question was also referred to the 
Scientific Committee, who suggested that it would be more convenient. if 
vernacular names were chosen in such cases, generally from the classics, 
and they recommend that in this instance the exhibitor should be asked to 
choose such a name (see page 352). 
It is interesting to note that both parents of the hybrid under discussion 
have white sepals and petals, and that the character is repeated in the 
offspring, a fact of importance in connection with the raising of albino 
hybrids, which is one of the subjects to be discussed at the coming 
Conference. The lip is coloured, as in the case of the parents, so that 
everything has worked out according to expectation, which is not always 
the case when albinos are crossed together. 
Another possible nomenclature question is involved in this particular 
case. If the ordinary coloured forms of C. Fabia and C. Warscewiczii 
were crossed together, coloured offspring would naturally result, but they 
would be forms of the same hybrid, so that the specific name chosen should 
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