May, rg1o.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 133 
OBITUARY. 
Baron Sirk HENRY SCHRODER.—Horticulture has sustained a great loss 
by the death of Baron Sir John Henry William Schréder, C.V.O., V.M.H., 
of The Dell, Englefield Green, which took place at the Victoria Hotel, 
Sidmouth, on April zoth, at the advanced age of 85. The deceased was 
head of the well known firm of bankers, J. H. Schréder & Co., Leadenhall 
Street, London, and was born in February, 1825. His ancestors were 
Hamburg merchants, but the family have been naturalized in England 
since 1864. In 1883 he succeeded to his father’s title of Baron von 
Schroder, a Prussian creation of 1868, and in 1892 he was made a baronet 
of the United Kingdom. 
The deceased was a great lover of Orchids, and commenced his 
collection in 1866 with a few small bits given to him by S. Rucker, Esq. 
of Wandsworth, a celebrated collector in his day. The number soon 
increased by purchase, and the collection rapidly became one of the most 
famous in the country, for the Baron was a great enthusiast, and spared 
neither pains nor expense in adding to it the choicest forms obtainable, in 
fact, his name was constantly associated with high or record prices for 
Orchids. It was in 1881 that he purchased two plants of the remarkable 
Cypripedium Stonei platyteenium from the collection of Mr. John Day for 
130 and 120 guineas respectively, the best plant being acquired by Sir 
Trevor Lawrence, and in these two collections it is still only to be found. 
In 1883 Odontoglossum Pescatorei Schroederianum was named after the 
Baron by Reichenbach, having been purchased from Mr. F. Sander for 
seventy guineas. The still finer O. P. Veitchianum was already at The 
Dell, and both remain there unique to this day. The collection was now 
famous, for we find a reference to Baron Schréder’s extensive and well- 
managed collection. 
It was about this time apparently that he began to exhibit at the 
meetings of the R.H.S., and the Society’s list of awards shows that on 
September 11th, 1883, Mr. Ballantine received a First-class Certificate for 
Vanca insigne Schreederiana, while on December 11th of the same year 
Cypripedium x Schroederez received a similar award. The number 
increased to something like ten in 1884, and among the names we find such 
sterling things as Lelia callistoglossa, Aérides Lawrencee, and Odonto- 
glossum crispum varieties, Ballantinei, dellense, Veitchianum, and flaveolum. 
Since that period an enormous number of handsome Orchids have been 
certificated from The Dell collection, the last being Phaiocalanthe Baron 
Schréder as recently as March 8th of the present year. 
At the first Temple Show in 1888, we find the Baron at the head of the 
competitive classes for Orchids, gaining a Silver Cup, and a magnificent 
